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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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 ...
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
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
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
SPECIAL REPORT: Rainy Day Radio, Nov. 7, 2017
SPECIAL REPORT: Resisting U.S. JeJu Island military base in South Korea, Oct. 24, 2017
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.
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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who helped make our 25th anniversary with Jeremy Scahill a success!
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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.
Listen to audio of the plenary sessions from the weekend.
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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This Week on Between The Lines
Posted Nov. 7, 2012 for week ending Nov. 16, 2012
"The U.S. Senate is going to be a decidedly more left-wing chamber than it was in this most recent two-year cycle. ... When you add it all up, it will still be a Democratic-controlled chamber, but the Democrats in it will be decidedly more progressive than the people who served before them."
– John Nichols, The Nation writer, on the gains of Democrats in the Senate
Listen to the entire program using these links, or to individual
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Interview with John Nichols, Washington correspondent with the Nation magazine, conducted by Scott Harris
With victories in a majority of critical swing states across the county, President Obama was re-elected to a second term. Control of both the House of Representatives and Senate remained unchanged, with Republicans holding on to the House despite the loss of several extreme right tea party-endorsed candidates and Senate Democrats picking up seats in Massachusetts and Indiana. Democratic Senate candidates elected or re-elected in hard-fought campaigns Nov. 6 included Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Chris Murphy, of Connecticut, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Tim Kaine of Virginia and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin. Progressive Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders won an overwhelming victory in Vermont.
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Interview with Nick Nyhart, president and CEO of the group Public Campaign, conducted by Scott Harris
As was predicted, the 2012 presidential election campaign broke all records for fundraising, with both the Obama and Romney campaigns collecting about $1 billion each. According the website OpenSecrets, the Romney campaign, the Republican Party and outside Super Pacs – like Karl Rove's American Crossroads – lead the campaign cash competition, spending over $989 million. President Obama’s campaign and their outside PACS trailed by a little, spending over $928 million. The enormous amount of money in this year's campaign, much of it unaccountable, was made possible by the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United vs. FEC case, which lifted restrictions on independent political expenditures.
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Interview with Joy Gordon, professor of law and philosophy at Fairfield University, conducted by Melinda Tuhus
During the 2012 election campaign, both President Obama and his challenger Mitt Romney called for ever-tougher sanctions on Iran in an effort to prevent that country from developing a nuclear weapon. For the record, Iran denies it is working on a weapon, maintaining it is working to develop nuclear power for civilian purposes only.
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This week’s summary of under-reported news
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- It’s been a year since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his come back, after serving four years as Prime Minister. Putin is now taking a tougher line sparking new protests by Russia’s emerging middle class, tired or corruption and autocratic rule. ("Putin’s tougher second act,"
Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 15, 2012; "Russian ‘rendition’, Kremlin grabs opposition figure from Ukraine streets," Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 22, 2012; "The enigmatic world of Russia’s political opposition," The Guardian, Oct. 22, 2012)
- For the second time, the federal Defense of Marriage Act was overturned by a federal appeals court as discriminatory towards gays and lesbians. The fate of DOMA may soon rest with the United States Supreme Court. ("US Marriage Act is unfair to gays, court panel says," New York Times, Oct. 18, 2012; "Appeals Court turns back Marriage Act as unfair to gays," New York Times, May 31, 2012)
- ProPublica reports Freddie Mac, the taxpayer owned mortgage giant resisted signing on to the Obama administration’s mortgage refinancing programs, out of fear its would cut into their profits. ("Why Freddie Mac resisted Refis," ProPublica, Oct. 25, 2012)
Recent Shows
November
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Frederick Clarkson: The Christian Right's Prominent Role in GOP Exposed by Their Candidates' Extremist Views on "Rape"
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Daniel Kessler: In Aftermath of Devastating "Frankenstorm" Climate Change Group Launches Divestment Campaign Against Fossil Fuel Industry
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Eric Boehlert: Media Focus on Election Polls and Gaffes Crowd Out Substantive Coverage of Critical Issues
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Judy Bello: Code Pink Delegation in Pakistan Stands in Solidarity with U.S. Drone Attack Victims
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Diana Buttu and Saleh Abdal Jawad: Testimony Before Russell Tribunal Focuses on U.S., U.N. Role in Israel's 45-Year Occupation of Palestine
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Greg Palast: The Theft of Millions of Votes Could Determine Outcome of 2012 Senate and Presidential Elections
October
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Bill Hartung: Critical U.S. Foreign Policy Questions Absent from Major Party Presidential Debates
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Jesse Lava: "Koch Brothers Exposed": Film Documentary Examines Right-Wing Groups, Causes Supported by Multi-Billionaires David and Charles Koch
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Chuck Nelson: Longtime Mountaintop-Removal Coal Mining Opponent Larry Gibson Remembered by Activists and Friends
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Mark Weisbrot: Venezuela's Poor Deliver Hugo Chavez Re-Election Victory
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Cindy Corrie: Slain Peace Activist Rachel Corrie's Parents Carry on Struggle for Peace and Justice in her Name
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Rocky Anderson: Rocky Anderson Runs for President Challenging Plutocracy and the "Corrupt" Major Party Duopoly
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Marge Baker: Future of Supreme Court Ideological Composition Hinges on Presidential Election
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George Farah: Critics Demand Full Disclosure of Secret Party Contracts Governing Presidential Debates
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Ron Seifert: Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline Construction in Texas Target of Nonviolent, Civil Disobedience Actions
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Jamal Abdi: As U.S. Election Nears, Rising Tensions with Iran Pose Risk of Miscalculation and War
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Ben Beachy: Critics Decry Secrecy, Corporate Access to Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Negotiations
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Drew Kukorowski: Campaign Pressures FCC to Roll Back Exorbitant Expense of Prison Phone Calls
September
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Chris Toensing: In Anti-Islam Film Uproar, Militant Groups Exploit Decades-old Grievances Against U.S.
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Marjorie Cohn: Court Ruling Challenges U.S. Government’s Right to Indefinitely Detain Terrorist Suspects and Supporters
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Ann Wright: On 1st Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street Movement, Activists Block Business as Usual in New York's Financial District
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John Feffer: Critics Separate Rhetoric from Reality in Obama's "Hope and Change" Foreign Policy
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Kevin Alexander Gray: In Appealing to Middle Class Voters, Obama and Democrats Ignore Rising Levels of Poverty
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Bill Duesing: Stanford University Study Ignores Key Reasons Why People Buy Organic Foods
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Steve Early: U.S. Labor Movement Faces Choice of "Lesser Evils" in Coming Presidential Election
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Peter Hart: Corporate Media Fails to Separate Fact from Fiction at GOP Convention
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Michael Hendryx: Recent Health Studies Point to Link Between Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining and Human Illness
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Randy Albelda: GOP Employs Phony Welfare Issue to Exploit Racial Division and Win Over White Voters
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Nancy Keenan: Romney, Ryan, Akin and GOP Wage War on Women by Embracing Extreme Positions on Reproductive Rights
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Jonathan Schwarz: Defenders of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Say Sweden's Actions Justified His Political Asylum Request
August
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Dean Baker: Romney-Ryan: The GOP's Ticket to Slashing The Nation's Social Safety Net
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Scott Klinger: New "Executive Excess" Report Links CEO Pay to Massive Corporate Tax Avoidance
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David Lochbaum: Another Climate Change Warning Sign: Connecticut Nuclear Power Plant Shuts Down Due to High Ocean Temperatures
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Leah Bolger: Israel Poised to Launch Pre-U.S. Election Attack on Iran
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Dr. Dan Doyle: Mountain Top Removal Coal Mining Divides Communities Over Jobs and the Environment
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Leonard Eiger: Transform Now Plowshares Disarmament Action Targets Oak Ridge Nuclear Weapons Facility
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Karen Perry Stillerman: Critics Challenge Monsanto's Claims Extolling Benefits of Genetically Engineered Food Crops
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Paul Anastas: Former EPA Adviser Comments on Recurring Conflict Between Science and Politics
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Jill Stein: Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein Revives FDR's Legacy in Her 'Green New Deal'
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James S. Henry: New Report Finds Super Rich Around the World have Avoided Paying Taxes on More Than $21 Trillion of Hidden Wealth
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Dustin Steele: Arrests at West Virginia Mountain Top Removal Coal Mine Signals New Phase of Direct Action Campaign
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Ted Lewis: Caravan for Peace to Travel Across U.S., Focusing Attention on Mexico’s Drug War Violence
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Ron Jacobs: East-West Geopolitical Battle Being Waged in Syrian Civil War
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Ladd Everitt: After Aurora Shooting, Political Cowardice Prevents Revival of Assault Weapons Ban
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Joanne Landy: Greek Anti-Austerity Movement Finds Political Voice in Syriza Party
July
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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
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Marge Baker: Senate Republicans Defeat Disclose Act Bill, Blocking Grassroots Drive for More Transparency in U.S. Elections
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Sanjeev Bery: Human Rights Group Calls for an Immediate International Arms Embargo Against Syria's Government
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Mark Hertsgaard: On Behalf of Their Children, Parents' Group Steps Up to Confront Generational Consequences of Climate Change
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Robert Scheer: International LIBOR Scandal is Latest Example of Financial Sector’s Culture of Corruption
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Dr. Steffie Woolhandler: After Supreme Court Upholds Obamacare, Single-Payer Advocates Vow to Continue Fight for Medicare For All
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Marc Mauer: Supreme Court Ruling Bars Mandatory Life Sentences for Juveniles
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Bill Chandler: Supreme Court Rejects Arizona's Pre-emption of Federal Immigration Law, But Upholds SB 1070's "Papers Please" Provision
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Ellen Vollinger: Congress Targets Food Stamp Program for Deep Cuts
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Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster: Senate Hears Testimony that Prolonged Prison Solitary Confinement is Torture
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Coleen Rowley: Fearing Extradition to US, WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Seeks Political Asylum in Ecuador's London Embassy
June
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Phyllis Bennis: Egyptian Military Consolidates Power as Muslim Brotherhood Claims Presidency
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William K. Black: Federal Reserve Report Reveals Americans’ Dramatic Loss of Wealth Resulting from Financial Meltdown
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Lorella Praeli: Apart from Obama's Executive Order, Young Undocumented Immigrants Continue Struggle for Path to Citizenship
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Chris Toensing: Syria's Uprising Descends into Civil War
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Matthew Rothschild: Wisconsin Recall Election Defeat a Wakeup Call for Progressive and Labor Activists
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Elaine Kolb: GOP Proposal to Cut $800 Billion from Medicaid Budget Focus of Disability Rights Protest
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Seif Da'Na: Days Before Egyptian Presidential Election, Court Sentences Mubarak, Ignites Massive Protest
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Richard Wolff: Austerity Policies Fuel Eurozone Crisis, Growing Public Resistance
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Marilyn Mullens: Women Against Mountain Top Removal Coal Mining Shave their Heads in Protest
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Saher Francis: Jailed Palestinian Hunger Strikers Win Concessions from Israelis on Improved Prison Conditions
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Andrew Gavin Marshall: Quebec's Student Tuition Strike Grows into Massive Anti-Austerity Movement
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Richard Kirsch: Millions of Americans' Access to Health Care Hinges on Supreme Court's Affordable Care Act Ruling
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Carl J. Mayer: Judge's Preliminary Injunction Bars Indefinite Military Detention of U.S. Citizens Under NDAA
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Pat Hunt: Militarized Police Force and Terrorism Charges Greet NATO Protesters in Chicago
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Gary Holder-Winfield: Connecticut Education Reform Law Aims to Close America's Worst Racial Achievement Gap
May
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John Lewis: In Historic Shift, Obama Declares His Support for Same Gender Marriage
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Laura Bozzi: "Climate Impacts Day" Connects Dots Between Global Climate Change and Extreme Weather
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Matthew Rothschild: Labor and Progressive Activists Work to Get Out the Vote for Wisconsin Recall Election June 5
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Tom Hayden: Obama Sends Mixed Messages in Speech on Future of Afghan War
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Mazin Qumsiyeh: Palestinian Prisoner Hunger Strike Marks Renewed Emphasis on Nonviolent Resistance
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Bob Edgar: Common Cause to IRS: Revoke Corporate Lobby Group ALEC’s Tax-Exempt, Charitable Status
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Christian Ramirez: U.S. Supreme Court Hears Arguments Challenging Constitutionality of Arizona's "Papers Please" Law
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Aaron Viles: BP Oil Spill Disaster Fines to be Dedicated to Gulf Coast Wetlands Restoration
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Mark Bray: Occupy Wall Street Movement Returns to the Streets in May Day Spring Revival
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Jeremy Holden: U.S. Network TV News Misleads on Iranian Nuclear Threat
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Dolores Huerta: Farm Workers Union Co-Founder: Together Progressive Activists can Advance Social Justice in America
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Greg Palast: Investigation Finds BP Covered Up Information on 2008 Blowout a Precursor to 2010 Gulf Coast Disaster
April
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Lee Farris: Tax Fairness Debate Takes Center Stage in Presidential Election Year
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Everette Thompson: Amnesty International: Decades of Solitary Confinement at Louisiana’s Angola Prison Amounts to Torture
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Alex Main: Summit of the Americas Highlights Latin Nations' Growing Independence from Washington
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Baher Azmy: Civil Liberties Advocates: Supreme Court Strip Search Ruling Could Lead to Systematic Police Abuse
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Richard Dieter: Connecticut Poised to Become 17th State to End Capital Punishment; Executions in Decline in U.S.
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Rashad Robinson: ColorofChange.org Succeeds in Pressuring Major Corporations to Resign from Right-wing Policy Group American Legislative Exchange Council
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Jin Hee Lee: Shooting Death of Trayvon Martin Provokes National Debate on Racial Profiling
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Chuck Nelson: Federal Court Overturns EPA Revocation of Mountain Top Removal Coal Mine Permit
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John Cavanagh: "99% Spring" Coalition of Unions, Students, Environmental Groups Organizing for Direct Action Protests
March
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Kathy Kelly: U.S. Soldier's Murder of 16 Afghan Civilians Provokes Growing Anger Toward American Occupation
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Suzanne Nossel: Amnesty International Report: Syrian Government Opponents Subjected to Systematic Torture
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Kambale Musavuli: Critics Say Kony 2012 Campaign Offers Wrong Response to Central Africa's Complex Issues
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Nathan Wessler: Obama Administration Program that Assassinates U.S. Citizens Challenged in FOIA Lawsuit
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Terry O'Neill: Rush Limbaugh’s Attack on Law Student Sandra Fluke Provokes Campaign to Shut Down His Show
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Keesha Gaskins: Justice Department and Courts Block Restrictive Voting Laws Enacted in GOP-Controlled States