Award-winning investigative journalist and founder/editor of ConsortiumNews.com, Robert Parry has passed away. His ground-breaking work uncovering Reagan-era dirty wars in Central America and many other illegal and immoral policies conducted by successive administrations and U.S. intelligence agencies, stands as an inspiration to all in journalists working in the public interest.
Robert had been a regular guest on our Between The Lines and Counterpoint radio shows -- and many other progressive outlets across the U.S. over four decades.
His penetrating analysis of U.S. foreign policy and international conflicts will be sorely missed, and not easily replaced. His son Nat Parry writes a tribute to his father: Robert Parry’s Legacy and the Future of Consortiumnews.
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Selected speeches from the Women's March in Hartford, Connecticut 2018, recorded and produced by Scott Harris
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"How Do We Build A Mass Movement to Reverse Runaway Inequality?" with Les Leopold, author of "Runaway Inequality: An Activist's Guide to Economic Justice,"May 22, 2016, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York, 860 11th Ave. (Between 58th and 59th), New York City. Between The Lines' Scott Harris and Richard Hill moderated this workshop. Listen to the audio/slideshows and more from this workshop.
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Listen to the full interview (30:33) with Jeremy Scahill, an award-winning investigative journalist with the Nation Magazine, correspondent for Democracy Now! and author of the bestselling book, "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army," about America's outsourcing of its military. In an exclusive interview with Counterpoint's Scott Harris on Sept. 16, 2013, Scahill talks about his latest book, "Dirty Wars, The World is a Battlefield," also made into a documentary film under the same title, and was nominated Dec. 5, 2013 for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary Feature category.
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Interview with Anna Berlinrut, organizer with Military Families Speak Out, conducted by Scott Harris
In a nationally televised address on June 22, President Obama announced he would withdraw 10,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2011. That represents one-third of the 33,000 additional soldiers he ordered deployed to Afghanistan in December 2009. Obama also told the nation that the remaining 23,000 surge-troops would return to the U.S. by September 2012, with the remaining 70,000 to be withdrawn in 2014.
With the Afghan war approaching its 10th anniversary this fall, America’s longest war has lost significant public support. A May Quinnipiac opinion poll found that 60 percent of those surveyed believe the Afghan war is no longer worth fighting. In late 2009, that number was 44 percent. An unlikely alliance between anti-war congressional Democrats and anti-Obama Republicans has seen growing support for legislation that would accelerate the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and end the U.S. military role in Libya.
Although the killing of terrorist leader Osama bin-Laden during a U.S. raid of his compound in Pakistan is evidence some say of the weakening of al Qaida, several top Pentagon officials warn that a too rapid withdrawal could risk losing Afghanistan to the Taliban and al Qaida. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Anna Berlinrut, an organizer with the group Military Families Speak Out. Berlinrut's son John, a Marine, has served one tour in Kosovo, three in Iraq and is currently in Afghanistan. She criticizes President Obama’s plan for a phased withdrawal of U.S. troops as much too slow.
Learn more about the anti-war group Military Families Speak Out by visiting mfso.org
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