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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For those who missed the event, or were there and really wanted to fully absorb its import, here it is in video

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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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Posted Jan. 23, 2013 for week ending Feb. 1, 2013

"It has been John Brennan who has been the CIA architect of this drone program under the Obama administration that has led to a huge rise in the number of drones used ... from 50 drones used by Bush, to 300 drones used by Obama administration and pushing it into Yemen. They not only kill a lot of innocent people ... but it's counterproductive. They create enemies faster than we can kill them... There were polls that say that 3 out of 4 Pakistanis consider the U.S. their enemy."

– Medea Benjamin, co-founder Code Pink and author of “Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control” on why her group thinks that John Brennan is the wrong person for director.

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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U.S. Drone Strikes Breed Hatred; Serve as Recruitment Tool for America’s Enemies

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Interview with Medea Benjamin, co-founder Code Pink and author of “Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control”, conducted by Scott Harris

In the days just before Barack Obama took the oath of office to begin his second term as president, the U.S. launched drone strikes in Yemen that reportedly killed 15 people. The administration’s escalation of America’s use of unmanned aerial vehicles in its targeted killing of suspected terrorists across the Middle East, South Asia and Africa is provoking increased opposition at home and abroad. During the inauguration ceremonies in Washington D.C., the group Code Pink Women for Peace protested against the U.S. drone program and called on the Senate to reject President Obama’s nomination of John Brennan to head the CIA. Brennan, who is currently deputy bational security advisor and assistant to the president for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, is the architect of Obama’s drone program and is referred to by some as the nation’s “assassination czar.” Story continues

Campaign Opposing Canadian Tar Sands Oil Comes to New England

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Interview with Dylan Voorhees, Clean Energy & Global Warming Project, director of the Natural Resources Council of Maine, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

On Jan. 26, hundreds of protesters are expected to converge in Portland, Maine, for what's being billed as the largest tar sands protest in the Northeast. The impetus is what organizers say are plans to reverse the flow of an existing pipeline that currently takes oil from ships arriving in South Portland harbor and pump it to Montreal, Canada. Activists say the Canadian company Enbridge is now considering pumping tar sands oil from Alberta through Quebec, to Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. Story continues

“State of the Dream 2013" Report Finds Racial Wealth Divide Fueled by Housing Crash

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Interview with Tim Sullivan, policy coordinator with UFE and co-author of his group’s report “State of the Dream 2013: A Long Way from Home", conducted by Scott Harris

The celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and work this year coincided with President Obama’s second inauguration on Jan. 21. Because Obama is America’s first African-American president, King’s lifelong struggle for racial equality was prominently discussed in the coverage of the day’s events. But while not as much focused on by corporate media and mainstream politicians, King was also very much active in the fight against economic inequality. In fact, in his April 4, 1967 speech, “Why I oppose the War in Vietnam,” delivered exactly one year before his assassination, King discussed the urgent need to battle the “giant triplets of racism, militarism and economic exploitation.” Story continues

This week’s summary of under-reported news

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French military intervention in the African nation of Mali to stop the advance of Al-Qaeda linked militants led to a new crisis, as Islamic militants in neighboring Algeria retaliated by seizing foreign hostages at a large natural gas facility. ("How the French got to airstrikes in Mali," Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 15, 2013; "French and Malian troops confront Islamists in seized Mali village," New York Times, Jan. 16, 2013; "Mali conflict: France has opened the gates of hell, say rebels," The Guardian, Jan. 14, 2013; "Terror Threat prompts US rethink on Africa," Wall Street Journal, Jan. 19, 2013)
In the bustling city of Accra, the capital of Ghana, the five-star Movenpick Hotel opened in 2011 backed by money from Saudi Arabia. The hotel offers 260 luxury rooms, with thousands of square feet of high end retail stores. Among the investors in the Accra hotel complex was the World Bank’s private investment arm, the International Finance Corporation or IFC, whose mission is to provide affordable loans in the developing world. ("Can you fight poverty with a five-star hotel?" ProPublica, Jan. 14, 2013)
According to the Christian Science Monitor, millions of low income Americans sit for weeks in local and county jails, because they cannot afford bail. ("Behind bars for lack of money," Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 17, 2012; "Jailed without conviction," Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 17, 2012)

Recent Shows

January

Week Ending Jan. 25, 2013

Norman Solomon: House Progressive Caucus Enables Obama's Concessions to Tea Party GOP Demands
Glen Collins: Keystone XL Pipeline Protests Part of Wider Movement Opposing Fossil Fuel Extraction Industry
Eva Golinger: Opposition Reacts to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s Grave Health Situation With Demand for New Election

Week Ending Jan. 18, 2013

Richard Eskow: White House–Congressional Fiscal Cliff Deal Comes at High Price
Hillary Haldane: Violence Against Women, Stigmatization of Victims Persists Across Cultures
Heather Benno: FBI Documents Confirm Government Collaborated with Big Banks to Spy on Occupy Wall Street Movement

Week Ending Jan. 11, 2013

Lori Wallach: Secretly Negotiated Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Treaty Prioritizes Corporate Power over Governments
Paul Anastas: West Antarctica Climate Now Warming Three Times Faster Than Global Average, New Report Finds
Josh Stearns: FCC Rules Change Would Further Consolidate Media Ownership, Reduce Diversity

Week Ending Jan. 4, 2013

Lisa Graves: Unholy Alliance: The Disturbing Relationship Between the NRA and ALEC
Matt Wall: Progressive Legislators/Activists Oppose Obama’s Fiscal Cliff Proposal to Cut Social Security Benefits
Justin Mazzola: Amnesty International Continues to Work for Release of Imprisoned Native American Activist Leonard Peltier

December

Week Ending Dec. 28, 2012

Joshua Horwitz: Will the Slaughter of the Innocents in Newtown, Conn. be a Catalyst for Stricter Gun Laws?
Michael Moore: Michael Moore, Award-winning Director of "Bowling for Columbine," Reflects on Newtown Massacre and America’s Culture of Violence
Eric LeCompte: Why Closing Offshore Corporate Tax Loopholes Should Play a Key Role in Fiscal Cliff Budget Negotiations

Week Ending Dec. 21, 2012

Glenn Greenwald: Civil Liberties Erosion in President Obama’s Second Term Will Continue Unless Citizens Mobilize
Jamie Henn: Climate Change Divestment Campaign Pressures Universities to Divest Their Fossil Fuel Stocks
Frank Hammer: Labor Rights Under Attack Again: Michigan, the Birthplace of U.S. Labor Movement, Adopts "Right to Work" Law

Week Ending Dec. 14, 2012

John Quigley: Defying U.S. and Israel, UN Votes to Recognize Palestine as "Nonmember Observer State"
Alex Lawson: Progressive Coalition Draws Line in Sand to Protect Social Safety Net Programs in Fiscal Cliff Negotiations
Cherri Foytlin: Motivated by Concern for her Children's Future, Louisiana Mother of 6 Makes Journey as Climate Change Activist

Week Ending Dec. 7, 2012

Cindy and Craig Corrie: Slain Peace Activist Rachel Corrie's Parents Reflect on Gaza Visit Just Before Recent Cross-Border Violence
Joe Lovett: Facing Lawsuit, Patriot Coal Company Agrees to Phase Out Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
David Bacon: Nationwide Walmart Workers' Strike Defies Retail Giant's Anti-Union Intimidation Tactics

November

Week Ending Nov. 30, 2012

Phyllis Bennis: Israeli Occupation and Blockade is Root Cause of Gaza Conflict
Max Richtman: Labor, Progressive Groups Call on Obama to Protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid During "Fiscal Cliff" Negotiations
Pablo Benson-Silva: Occupy Sandy Relief Effort Connects Dots Between Wall Street Greed and Nation's Climate Change Paralysis

Week Ending Nov. 23, 2012

Bill Fletcher Jr.: After Delivering Critical Votes for Obama and Democrats, Labor Now Moves on Post-Election Agenda
Terry O'Neill: Republican "War on Women" Provokes Backlash at Polls and Key Victories for Progressive Candidates
Sally Bingham: California Launches Landmark Cap-and-Trade Program with Auction of Greenhouse Gas Pollution Permits

Week Ending Nov. 16, 2012

John Nichols: Progressive Gains in U.S. Senate Defy Pundits' Declaration of "Status Quo" Election
Nick Nyhart: In Wake of Record-Breaking Spending in 2012 Election Campaign, Public May be Ready to Demand Reform
Joy Gordon: Iran's Civilians Bear Brunt of International Sanctions

Week Ending Nov. 9, 2012

Frederick Clarkson: The Christian Right's Prominent Role in GOP Exposed by Their Candidates' Extremist Views on "Rape"
Daniel Kessler: In Aftermath of Devastating "Frankenstorm" Climate Change Group Launches Divestment Campaign Against Fossil Fuel Industry
Eric Boehlert: Media Focus on Election Polls and Gaffes Crowd Out Substantive Coverage of Critical Issues

Week Ending Nov. 2, 2012

Judy Bello: Code Pink Delegation in Pakistan Stands in Solidarity with U.S. Drone Attack Victims
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
Greg Palast: The Theft of Millions of Votes Could Determine Outcome of 2012 Senate and Presidential Elections

October

Week Ending Oct. 26, 2012

Bill Hartung: Critical U.S. Foreign Policy Questions Absent from Major Party Presidential Debates
Jesse Lava: "Koch Brothers Exposed": Film Documentary Examines Right-Wing Groups, Causes Supported by Multi-Billionaires David and Charles Koch
Chuck Nelson: Longtime Mountaintop-Removal Coal Mining Opponent Larry Gibson Remembered by Activists and Friends

Week Ending Oct. 19, 2012

Mark Weisbrot: Venezuela's Poor Deliver Hugo Chavez Re-Election Victory
Cindy Corrie: Slain Peace Activist Rachel Corrie's Parents Carry on Struggle for Peace and Justice in her Name
Rocky Anderson: Rocky Anderson Runs for President Challenging Plutocracy and the "Corrupt" Major Party Duopoly

Week Ending Oct. 12, 2012

Marge Baker: Future of Supreme Court Ideological Composition Hinges on Presidential Election
George Farah: Critics Demand Full Disclosure of Secret Party Contracts Governing Presidential Debates
Ron Seifert: Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline Construction in Texas Target of Nonviolent, Civil Disobedience Actions

Week Ending Oct. 5, 2012

Jamal Abdi: As U.S. Election Nears, Rising Tensions with Iran Pose Risk of Miscalculation and War
Ben Beachy: Critics Decry Secrecy, Corporate Access to Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Negotiations
Drew Kukorowski: Campaign Pressures FCC to Roll Back Exorbitant Expense of Prison Phone Calls

September

Week Ending Sept. 28, 2012

Chris Toensing: In Anti-Islam Film Uproar, Militant Groups Exploit Decades-old Grievances Against U.S.
Marjorie Cohn: Court Ruling Challenges U.S. Government’s Right to Indefinitely Detain Terrorist Suspects and Supporters
Ann Wright: On 1st Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street Movement, Activists Block Business as Usual in New York's Financial District

Week Ending Sept. 21, 2012

John Feffer: Critics Separate Rhetoric from Reality in Obama's "Hope and Change" Foreign Policy
Kevin Alexander Gray: In Appealing to Middle Class Voters, Obama and Democrats Ignore Rising Levels of Poverty
Bill Duesing: Stanford University Study Ignores Key Reasons Why People Buy Organic Foods

Week Ending Sept. 14, 2012

Steve Early: U.S. Labor Movement Faces Choice of "Lesser Evils" in Coming Presidential Election
Peter Hart: Corporate Media Fails to Separate Fact from Fiction at GOP Convention
Michael Hendryx: Recent Health Studies Point to Link Between Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining and Human Illness

Week Ending Sept. 7, 2012

Randy Albelda: GOP Employs Phony Welfare Issue to Exploit Racial Division and Win Over White Voters
Nancy Keenan: Romney, Ryan, Akin and GOP Wage War on Women by Embracing Extreme Positions on Reproductive Rights
Jonathan Schwarz: Defenders of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Say Sweden's Actions Justified His Political Asylum Request

August

Week Ending Aug. 31, 2012

Dean Baker: Romney-Ryan: The GOP's Ticket to Slashing The Nation's Social Safety Net
Scott Klinger: New "Executive Excess" Report Links CEO Pay to Massive Corporate Tax Avoidance
David Lochbaum: Another Climate Change Warning Sign: Connecticut Nuclear Power Plant Shuts Down Due to High Ocean Temperatures

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