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.
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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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"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 Peter Hart, activism director with the media watch group FAIR, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, conducted by Scott Harris
As the Republican National Convention was preparing to launch in Tampa, Fla., the specter of tropical storm Isaac threatened to wash out the proceedings. But after a one-day delay, the televised nominating convention got underway with the focus shifting from the weather back to the predictable rhetorically heavy speeches. while Americans widely expect politicians to bend the truth to put themselves and their party in the best possible light, the GOP convention this year was notable for the long list of exaggerations, misleading statements and blatant lies catalogued by a small army of fact-checkers, many on the web.
Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the Republican vice presidential nominee seemed to break records for the number of misstatements made during his acceptance speech. Among them was the claim that President Obama broke his pledge to keep a GM plant opened in Ryan’s hometown in Janesville, Wis. Documents show Obama never made that promise and the plant was shut down in 2008 under President Bush’s watch. Another issue of veracity arose when Ryan repeated the statement that the Obama health care plan took $716 billion out of Medicare, not bothering to mention that these cuts were made to the reimbursements paid to health providers and hospitals, unlike Ryan’s own proposed $716 billion cut to Medicare recipient benefits by moving to a voucher system.
In fact, the overall GOP convention theme of “We Built This," was taken from the blatantly out-of-context Obama quote: "If you've got a business – you didn't build that,” which deliberately deleted Obama’s direct reference to government’s investment in roads and bridges. Between The Lines’ Scott Harris spoke with Peter Hart, activism director with the media-watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, who takes a critical look at the corporate media’s coverage of the major party political conventions and their obligation to separate fact from fiction.
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