Award-winning Investigative Journalist Robert Parry (1949-2018)

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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The Resistance Starts Now!

Between The Lines' coverage and resource compilation of the Resistance Movement

"The man who predicted Trump presidential win now says Trump impeachment could happen," AM Joy with Joy Reid, MSNBC, Jan. 21, 2018
"Sketchy Kazakh money finds its way into Trump dealings," The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC, Jan. 15, 2018
"Red flags seen in many Trump real estate deals," The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC, Jan. 15, 2018
"Secret Money: How Trump Made Millions Selling Condos To Unknown Buyers," BuzzFeed, Jan. 12, 2018
"The Scandals of Donald Trump: Presidential Edition," The Atlantic, May 15, 2017
"Here's what we know so far about Team Trump's ties to Russian interests," Washington Post's ongoing compilation
"What Comey Was Investigating, Explained," The Moscow Project, Center for American Progress

"Donald Trump's Financial Ties to Russian Oligarchs and Mobsters Detailed In Explosive New Documentary from the Netherlands," Dutch TV documentary, Alternet.org, May 12, 2017
Ongoing compilation of Trump's creeping authoritarianism," MotherJones.com
Full resource list ...

SPECIAL REPORT: "The Resistance - Women's March 2018 - Hartford, Connecticut" Jan. 20, 2018

Selected speeches from the Women's March in Hartford, Connecticut 2018, recorded and produced by Scott Harris

SPECIAL REPORT: "No Fracking Waste in CT!" Jan. 14, 2018

Jen Siskind Jennifer Siskind, local coordinator for Food and Water Watch, describes the campaign to stop fracking waste in Connecticut, which so far has led to fracking waste bans in 34 towns around the state. Interviewed by Richard Hill on Mic Check, WPKN Radio, Bridgeport, CT

SPECIAL REPORT: "Resistance Round Table: The Unraveling Continues..." Jan. 13, 2018

Lindsay Kanaly The panel discusses Trump's long history of racism and the Republican voter suppression juggernaut confronting Democrats leading up to the 2018 elections. Special guest: Lindsay Kanaly, a lead organizer of the Women's Marches planned for Jan. 20, 2018. Panel: Scott Harris, Ruthanne Baumgartner and Richard Hill on Resistance Roundtable, WPKN Radio, Bridgeport, CT.

SPECIAL REPORT: "Capitalism to the ash heap?" Richard Wolff, Jan. 2, 2018

Richard Wolff, Economics professor Richard Wolff declares U.S. capitalism to be beyond repair and suggests the need for a radical alternative. Interviewed by Richard Hill

SPECIAL REPORT: Maryn McKenna, author of "Big Chicken", Dec. 7, 2017

Maryn McKenna, investigative journalist and author of Big Chicken, talks about the widespread use and dangers of antibiotics in commercial poultry, beef and fruit production. Interview by Bill Duesing, Richard Hill and Guy Beardsly on WPKN's Organic Farm Stand.

SPECIAL REPORT: Nina Turner's address, Working Families Party Awards Banquet, Dec. 14, 2017

Nina Turner, president of Our Revolution, talks about the fight ahead for progressives as she receives the Working Families Organization Award for Exceptional Leadership Towards Advancing Progress. The event was held in Meriden, CT. Produced by Richard Hill.

SPECIAL REPORT: Mic Check, Dec. 12, 2017

Working Families Party of CT talks strategy and issues for 2018.
Lindsay Farrell, executive director of the Working Families Party of Connecticut, discusses the state's electoral landscape and lays out the issues and strategies that could lead to progressive victories in 2018. Interviewed by Richard Hill.

SPECIAL REPORT: Resistance Roundtable, Dec. 9, 2017

Disturbing developments in the Trump/Republican Agenda
Focus on the tax bill, destruction of our public lands, North Korea and Trump's private CIA. Panel: Scott Harris, Ruthanne Baumgartner and Richard Hill. Special guest: Jo Macallero of Rise and Resist.

SPECIAL REPORT: On Tyranny - one year later, Nov. 28, 2017

Professor Timothy Snyder, author of the highly acclaimed resistance manual On Tyranny, discusses his book and offers a fresh assessment of the state of our beleaguered republic. Timothy Snyder, history professor at Yale, is introduced by Stanley Heller, administrator of Promoting Enduring Peace, a Connecticut-based organization that sponsored this event at the United Church Parish House in New Haven on Nov. 28. A brief interview with Snyder conducted by WPKN radio producer, Richard Hill, follows his talk.

SPECIAL REPORT: Mic Check, Nov. 12, 2017

Lynne Ide, director of program and policy with the Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut, talks about the current state of health care coverage in Connecticut. Interviewed by Richard Hill, WPKN radio producer

SPECIAL REPORT: Resistance Roundtable, Nov. 11, 2017

Focus on the Republican tax plan, the just-released autopsy on the Democratic Party, and Internet censorship by Google, Facebook and Youtube. Including an interview with Hilary Grant, a lead organizer with Action Together Connecticut, who discusses the local results of the recent election, with hosts Richard Hill, Scott Harris and Ruth Baumgartner WPKN producers

SPECIAL REPORT: Rainy Day Radio, Nov. 7, 2017

Two leaders from Redneck Revolt, an anti-racist, anti-capitalist movement, talk about their work organizing with white working class people in Suffolk County, New York. Interviewed by Richard Hill, WPKN radio producer

SPECIAL REPORT: Rainy Day Radio, Nov. 7, 2017

Bruce Gagnon, coordinator for the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, describes the extent of -- and motives underlying -- the vast US network of military bases around the globe. Interviewed by Richard Hill, WPKN radio producer

SPECIAL REPORT: Resisting U.S. JeJu Island military base in South Korea, Oct. 24, 2017

Joyakol, South Korean peace activist and singer, discusses the crisis on the Korean peninsula and focuses on the resistance to the U.S. huge military base being constructed on Jeju Island. The event was sponsored by the Greater New Haven Peace Council and this audio was recorded by Richard Hill, WPKN producer.
Joyakol discusses Americans' biggest misconceptions about the conflict between North and South Korea and the U.S., Interview by Richard Hill, WPKN producer.

SPECIAL REPORT: John Allen, Out in New Haven

John Allen, founding director of the New Haven Pride Center, Connecticut, talks about his new LGBTQ television show, Out in New Haven, which presents a range of political and cultural issues to the community. Interviewed by Richard Hill on WPKN's Rainy Day Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018.

2017 Gandhi Peace Awards

Promoting Enduring Peace presented its Gandhi Peace Award jointly to renowned consumer advocate Ralph Nader and BDS founder Omar Barghouti on April 23, 2017.

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Between The Lines Presentation at the Left Forum 2016

"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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JEREMY SCAHILL: Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker "Dirty Wars"

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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Posted Aug. 22, 2012 for week ending Aug. 31, 2012

"Well, (Mitt Romney's vice-presidential running mate) Paul Ryan's views, most people consider pretty extreme. In the past, Rep. Ryan has been very vocal in calling for privatizing Social Security. He, in his budget, calls for replacing Medicare with a voucher program for people under age 55, and basically for dismantling the federal government."

– Dean Baker, co-director of Council for Economic and Policy Research

Listen to the entire program using these links, or to individual interviews via the links appearing prior to each segment description below.

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Romney-Ryan: The GOP's Ticket to Slashing The Nation's Social Safety Net

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Interview with Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, conducted by Scott Harris

When presumed Republican Party presidential nominee Mitt Romney announced his pick of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate on Aug. 11, much of the media coverage focused on the choice as a possible catalyst that could move the country toward a substantive national debate on the future of Medicare and other social safety net programs. As House Budget chairman, Ryan was the architect of a 2011 budget plan that would have made dramatic cuts to funding for education, Head Start, aid to college students and other vital social programs, while simultaneously providing ever larger tax cuts to the nation’s wealthiest citizens. But perhaps Ryan’s best-known signature policy proposal was to end the Medicare program as the nation has known it since its establishment in 1965. Under Ryan’s plan, Medicare would move to a voucher program, offering seniors a limited amount of money to shop for private health insurance, while shifting the burden of thousands of dollars of additional health care costs onto the elderly the program serves. Under the current Medicare system, the government directly pays doctors, hospitals and other health care providers. Story continues

New "Executive Excess" Report Links CEO Pay to Massive Corporate Tax Avoidance

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Interview with Scott Klinger, associate fellow with the Institute for Policy Studies, conducted by Scott Harris

Cuts to vital local/state and federal programs - including education, health care, police, fire and sanitation – have become increasingly visible since the economic meltdown that struck the U.S. in 2008. As businesses have suffered during the severe recession, tax dollars have dried up, often forcing governments to make up the shortfall by cutting budgets or eliminating public services altogether. Stimulus funds initially distributed by Washington to local and state governments that helped bridge the gap early on in the recession have also disappeared, with the GOP House adhering to their austerity ideology, refusing to allocate additional funds. Story continues

Another Climate Change Warning Sign: Connecticut Nuclear Power Plant Shuts Down Due to High Ocean Temperatures

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Interview with David Lochbaum, director of the Nuclear Safety Project of the Union of Concerned Scientists, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

On Aug. 12, Unit 2 of the Millstone nuclear power plant in Waterford, CT was shut down because the temperature of the ocean water used to cool elements of the reactor core was too high. Water in Long Island Sound reached a temperature of 75 degrees, causing the plant to go through an emergency shutdown and was still not operating as of a week later. This was the first such incident since the plant went online in 1975. Although nuclear plants in previous years have had to shut down due to the high temperature of fresh water in lakes and rivers, this is the first shut down due to high ocean temperatures. Story continues

This week’s summary of under-reported news

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Compiled by Bob Nixon

The British bank Standard Chartered has agreed to pay the New York State Department of Financial Services $340 million to settle charges it laundered $250 billion in a transaction with Iran and lied to regulators. Now, federal prosecutors are under pressure to bring charges against the British bank with $800 billion in assets, which made a $5 billion profit in 2011.("British Bank in $340 Million Settlement for Laundering," New York Times, Aug. 14, 2012; "Standard Chartered Eyes Joint Deal after Backing Down in U.S.," Reuters, Aug. 15, 2012; "Standard Chartered Money Laundering Deal: Did NY Jump the Gun?" Christian Science Monitor, Aug. 15, 2012)
According to the Christian Science Monitor, all across the American South, the move toward irrigation has raised concerns over depleted water resources. ("Drought: Farmers Dig Deeper, Water Tables Drop, Competition Heats Up," Christian Science Monitor, Aug. 8, 2012)
The Vermont Progressive Party is one of the few viable third party movements in the United States which has shaped public policy, such as Vermont’s single-payer framework for health care reform. ("Out of the Margins, Into the Fray," In These Times, May 2012; "An Ambitious State’s Plan," Christian Science Monitor, Aug. 6, 2012)

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August

Week Ending Aug. 24, 2012

Leah Bolger: Israel Poised to Launch Pre-U.S. Election Attack on Iran
Dr. Dan Doyle: Mountain Top Removal Coal Mining Divides Communities Over Jobs and the Environment
Leonard Eiger: Transform Now Plowshares Disarmament Action Targets Oak Ridge Nuclear Weapons Facility

Week Ending Aug. 17, 2012

Karen Perry Stillerman: Critics Challenge Monsanto's Claims Extolling Benefits of Genetically Engineered Food Crops
Paul Anastas: Former EPA Adviser Comments on Recurring Conflict Between Science and Politics
Jill Stein: Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein Revives FDR's Legacy in Her 'Green New Deal'

Week Ending Aug. 10, 2012

James S. Henry: New Report Finds Super Rich Around the World have Avoided Paying Taxes on More Than $21 Trillion of Hidden Wealth
Dustin Steele: Arrests at West Virginia Mountain Top Removal Coal Mine Signals New Phase of Direct Action Campaign
Ted Lewis: Caravan for Peace to Travel Across U.S., Focusing Attention on Mexico’s Drug War Violence

Week Ending Aug. 3, 2012

Ron Jacobs: East-West Geopolitical Battle Being Waged in Syrian Civil War
Ladd Everitt: After Aurora Shooting, Political Cowardice Prevents Revival of Assault Weapons Ban
Joanne Landy: Greek Anti-Austerity Movement Finds Political Voice in Syriza Party

July

Week Ending July 27, 2012

Baher Azmy: Eighty-Seven Guantanamo Detainees Cleared for Release Remain in Hopeless Legal Limbo
Erez Krispin and Nour Shehada: Former Israeli and Palestinian Combatants Oppose Israeli Government Panel Declaring West Bank Settlements Don't Violate International Law
Marge Baker: Senate Republicans Defeat Disclose Act Bill, Blocking Grassroots Drive for More Transparency in U.S. Elections

Week Ending July 20, 2012

Sanjeev Bery: Human Rights Group Calls for an Immediate International Arms Embargo Against Syria's Government
Mark Hertsgaard: On Behalf of Their Children, Parents' Group Steps Up to Confront Generational Consequences of Climate Change
Robert Scheer: International LIBOR Scandal is Latest Example of Financial Sector’s Culture of Corruption

Week Ending July 13, 2012

Dr. Steffie Woolhandler: After Supreme Court Upholds Obamacare, Single-Payer Advocates Vow to Continue Fight for Medicare For All
Marc Mauer: Supreme Court Ruling Bars Mandatory Life Sentences for Juveniles
Bill Chandler: Supreme Court Rejects Arizona's Pre-emption of Federal Immigration Law, But Upholds SB 1070's "Papers Please" Provision

Week Ending July 6, 2012

Ellen Vollinger: Congress Targets Food Stamp Program for Deep Cuts
Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster: Senate Hears Testimony that Prolonged Prison Solitary Confinement is Torture
Coleen Rowley: Fearing Extradition to US, WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Seeks Political Asylum in Ecuador's London Embassy

June

Week Ending June 29, 2012

Phyllis Bennis: Egyptian Military Consolidates Power as Muslim Brotherhood Claims Presidency
William K. Black: Federal Reserve Report Reveals Americans’ Dramatic Loss of Wealth Resulting from Financial Meltdown
Lorella Praeli: Apart from Obama's Executive Order, Young Undocumented Immigrants Continue Struggle for Path to Citizenship

Week Ending June 22, 2012

Chris Toensing: Syria's Uprising Descends into Civil War
Matthew Rothschild: Wisconsin Recall Election Defeat a Wakeup Call for Progressive and Labor Activists
Elaine Kolb: GOP Proposal to Cut $800 Billion from Medicaid Budget Focus of Disability Rights Protest

Week Ending June 15, 2012

Seif Da'Na: Days Before Egyptian Presidential Election, Court Sentences Mubarak, Ignites Massive Protest
Richard Wolff: Austerity Policies Fuel Eurozone Crisis, Growing Public Resistance
Marilyn Mullens: Women Against Mountain Top Removal Coal Mining Shave their Heads in Protest

Week Ending June 8, 2012

Saher Francis: Jailed Palestinian Hunger Strikers Win Concessions from Israelis on Improved Prison Conditions
Andrew Gavin Marshall: Quebec's Student Tuition Strike Grows into Massive Anti-Austerity Movement
Richard Kirsch: Millions of Americans' Access to Health Care Hinges on Supreme Court's Affordable Care Act Ruling

Week Ending June 1, 2012

Carl J. Mayer: Judge's Preliminary Injunction Bars Indefinite Military Detention of U.S. Citizens Under NDAA
Pat Hunt: Militarized Police Force and Terrorism Charges Greet NATO Protesters in Chicago
Gary Holder-Winfield: Connecticut Education Reform Law Aims to Close America's Worst Racial Achievement Gap

May

Week Ending May 25, 2012

John Lewis: In Historic Shift, Obama Declares His Support for Same Gender Marriage
Laura Bozzi: "Climate Impacts Day" Connects Dots Between Global Climate Change and Extreme Weather
Matthew Rothschild: Labor and Progressive Activists Work to Get Out the Vote for Wisconsin Recall Election June 5

Week Ending May 18, 2012

Tom Hayden: Obama Sends Mixed Messages in Speech on Future of Afghan War
Mazin Qumsiyeh: Palestinian Prisoner Hunger Strike Marks Renewed Emphasis on Nonviolent Resistance
Bob Edgar: Common Cause to IRS: Revoke Corporate Lobby Group ALEC’s Tax-Exempt, Charitable Status

Week Ending May 11, 2012

Christian Ramirez: U.S. Supreme Court Hears Arguments Challenging Constitutionality of Arizona's "Papers Please" Law
Aaron Viles: BP Oil Spill Disaster Fines to be Dedicated to Gulf Coast Wetlands Restoration
Mark Bray: Occupy Wall Street Movement Returns to the Streets in May Day Spring Revival

Week Ending May 4, 2012

Jeremy Holden: U.S. Network TV News Misleads on Iranian Nuclear Threat
Dolores Huerta: Farm Workers Union Co-Founder: Together Progressive Activists can Advance Social Justice in America
Greg Palast: Investigation Finds BP Covered Up Information on 2008 Blowout a Precursor to 2010 Gulf Coast Disaster

April

Week Ending April 27, 2012

Lee Farris: Tax Fairness Debate Takes Center Stage in Presidential Election Year
Everette Thompson: Amnesty International: Decades of Solitary Confinement at Louisiana’s Angola Prison Amounts to Torture
Alex Main: Summit of the Americas Highlights Latin Nations' Growing Independence from Washington

Week Ending April 20, 2012

Baher Azmy: Civil Liberties Advocates: Supreme Court Strip Search Ruling Could Lead to Systematic Police Abuse
Richard Dieter: Connecticut Poised to Become 17th State to End Capital Punishment; Executions in Decline in U.S.
Rashad Robinson: ColorofChange.org Succeeds in Pressuring Major Corporations to Resign from Right-wing Policy Group American Legislative Exchange Council

Week Ending April 13, 2012

Jin Hee Lee: Shooting Death of Trayvon Martin Provokes National Debate on Racial Profiling
Chuck Nelson: Federal Court Overturns EPA Revocation of Mountain Top Removal Coal Mine Permit
John Cavanagh: "99% Spring" Coalition of Unions, Students, Environmental Groups Organizing for Direct Action Protests

Week Ending April 6, 2012

Dr. Margaret Flowers: Single-Payer Advocates Favor High Court Overturning Obama Individual Mandate
Medea Benjamin: U.S. Peace Movement Regroups to Stop War with Iran
U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer: Bicyclists Organize to Battle Budget Freeze Out

March

Week Ending March 30, 2012

Kathy Kelly: U.S. Soldier's Murder of 16 Afghan Civilians Provokes Growing Anger Toward American Occupation
Suzanne Nossel: Amnesty International Report: Syrian Government Opponents Subjected to Systematic Torture
Kambale Musavuli: Critics Say Kony 2012 Campaign Offers Wrong Response to Central Africa's Complex Issues

Week Ending March 23, 2012

Nathan Wessler: Obama Administration Program that Assassinates U.S. Citizens Challenged in FOIA Lawsuit
Terry O'Neill: Rush Limbaugh’s Attack on Law Student Sandra Fluke Provokes Campaign to Shut Down His Show
Keesha Gaskins: Justice Department and Courts Block Restrictive Voting Laws Enacted in GOP-Controlled States

Week Ending March 16, 2012

Melvin A. Goodman: U.S. and Israel's Threats Could Lead to Unpredictable Military Confrontation with Iran
Judy Tabar: GOP Doubles Down on War Against Women's Access to Contraception
Tyson Slocum: Speculation and Exports Cause Latest Gas Price Spike

Week Ending March 9, 2012

Chris Rude: Obama Plan to Reform Corporate Tax Code Fails to Shift Larger Tax Burden onto Big Business
Patty Blum: U.S. Judge Clears Way for Deportation of Former El Salvadoran General for War Crimes
Peter Montgomery: GOP Presidential Candidates Revive Christian Right Culture War to Rally Its Extremist Base

Week Ending March 2, 2012

Costas Panayotakis: Greeks Resist Harsh Austerity Measures Imposed by Eurozone as Condition for New $172 Billion Bailout
Shahid Buttar: National Campaign Organizes to Overturn Provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act that Empowers Government to Indefinitely Detain American Citizens
Patty Lovera: Consumer Groups Demand Rigorous Government Study of Genetically Engineered Salmon's Hazards to Human Health

February

Week Ending Feb. 24, 2012

Jamal Abdi: Tensions Escalate as Israel and Iran Trade Charges in Embassy Bombings
Rachel Goldenberg: Rabbis' Group Fights for Rights of the Oppressed in Israel and the U.S.
Jeff Clements: 2012 Campaign Spending Breaking New Records as Groups Fight to Overturn Supreme Court 'Corporate Personhood' Decision

Week Ending Feb. 17, 2012

Richard Eskow: After Years of Inaction, Obama Moves to Investigate Wall Street Role in Economic Collapse
Bruce Hamilton: Sierra Club Secretly Took $26 million from Natural Gas Industry for Campaign Against Coal-Fired Power Plants
Theresa Moran: New Wave of Anti-Union Legislation Launched with Passage of Indiana "Right-to-Work" Law

Week Ending Feb. 10, 2012

Bob Edgar: State-by-State Campaign Working for Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens United Decision
Meghan Smith: Obama Ruling on Access to Birth Control Provokes Attack from GOP and Religious Right
Sandy Nurse: The Occupy Movement Prepares for Spring Actions as 400 Arrested in Oakland

Week Ending Feb. 3, 2012

Kevin Alexander Gray: In 2012 GOP Primary Campaign, "Racist Dog Whistle" Sounds Like a Bullhorn
Emily Bernhardt: Study Finds Surface and Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Degrades Water Quality
Josh Levy: Cyber Activists Rise Up to Derail Proposed Federal Anti-Piracy Bills

January

Week Ending Jan. 27, 2012

Muhammad Sahimi: Assassination of Iranian Nuclear Scientists: A Provocation for War?
Kevin Gosztola: Bradley Manning Defense Team and Support Network Prepare for Court Martial
Dedrick Muhammad: Without Public Policy Change, America Headed for Increased Racial Inequality

Week Ending Jan. 20, 2012

Shahid Buttar: Breaking Campaign Pledge, Obama Signs Indefinite Detention into Law
Mark Hays: National Protest Actions will Oppose Supreme Court Ruling Granting "Corporate Personhood"
Cindy Cohn: Appeals Court Revives Lawsuit Challenging Warrantless Government Surveillance

Week Ending Jan. 13, 2012

Gar Alperovitz: Rising Economic Inequality Provokes Search for Practical, Democratic Alternatives
Lynn Freeman: Campaign to Recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Confident of Gathering Required Signatures Before Jan. 17th Deadline
Jihan Nasser: Palestinian Women's Center Overcomes Many Obstacles to Provide Technical Training to Those in Need

Week Ending Jan. 6, 2012

Rainey Reitman: Defense Lawyers Counter Claim of Harm to U.S. in Army Whistleblower Bradley Manning's Recent Hearing
Rona Moran: Website Exposes Companies that Profit from Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Land
Robert Weil: Wukan Village Revolt, Evidence of Growing Social Unrest in China