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 June 12, 2013 for week ending June 21, 2013
"Instead of assuming that everyone is innocent until proven guilty, we seem to have this vague suspicion, 'well, everyone is a possible criminal.' And that's really turning on its head our fundamental system of values and the constitutional amendments that protect our personal liberties. "
– Heidi Boghosian, executive director of the National Lawyers Guild, on the dangers of the government's massive surveillance program, which was put into effect during the Bush administration and continues under President Obama.
Listen to the entire program using these links, or to individual
interviews via the links appearing prior to each segment description
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Interview with Heidi Boghosian, executive director of the National Lawyers Guild, conducted by Scott Harris
Revelations about the U.S. government’s covert surveillance apparatus has been the focus of attention in American media and the around world since the British Guardian newspaper and the Washington Post released previously unknown details of the massive collection of phone and Internet communications. The disclosure of this top secret information, sent to Guardian journalist and civil liberties advocate Glenn Greenwald, was made by Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and recent employee of the government defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton.
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Interview with Asli Bali, assistant professor at the UCLA School of Law, conducted by Scott Harris
As the government of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan entered its 10th year in power, the streets across his nation have exploded into angry protest. The May 31 violent police repression of a peaceful demonstration in Istanbul’s Gezi park, organized to oppose government plans to develop the green space, triggered demonstrations in 60 cities across Turkey.
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Excerpt of speech by environmental activist James Gustave "Gus" Speth, recorded and produced by Melinda Tuhus
For more than 40 years, James Gustave "Gus" Speth has been one of America's environmental leaders as co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council and the World Resources Institute, as environmental adviser to Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton and as dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
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- For decades, the Masai have used a 600-square mile “wildlife corridor” near Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park to graze cattle. In late March, Tanzania’s Tourism Minister Khamis Kagasheki announced 30,000 Masai would be evicted from the corridor. ("Masai herders may be victims of deal with Dubai hunting firm," Christian Science Monitor, June 5, 2013)
- The drama of Argentina’s 2002 default on $100 billion dollars worth of debt is back in a U.S. Court of Appeals in New York. A small group of holdout creditors, led by a hedge fund are seeking full re-payment of Argentine bonds, long after most other creditors settled. ("Bondholders spark U.S. legal drama over Argentine debt," Los Angeles Times, May 27, 2013)
- As the Occupy Wall Street movement was expanding nationwide in the fall of 2011, the top security manager at JP Morgan Chase in Arizona, Dan Grady, contacted the Homeland Security bureau of the Phoenix police department. He was worried about a bank company gathering at Chase Field, home of the Arizona Diamondbacks. The big event would feature JP Morgan CEO Jamie Diamond and thousands of bank employees. ("Spying on Occupy Activists," The Progressive, June 2013)
Recent Shows
June
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Chris Toensing: Escalation of Syrian Civil War Threatens Wider Regional Conflict
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Michael Ratner: In Bradley Manning Trial, U.S. Government Strives to Intimidate Future Whistleblowers
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Shahid Buttar: Critics Charge Obama Justice Department's Collection of Journalists' Phone Records Undermines Press Freedom
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Matt Southworth: President Obama's Counterterrorism Speech: A Path to Change or More Rhetoric?
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Gerardo Reyes Chavez: Coalition of Immokalee Workers Pressure Wendy's to Sign Agreement Improving Florida Farmworkers' Wages and Conditions
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Tim Franzen: Occupy Our Homes Protests Department of Justice's Failure to Prosecute Wall Street Bankers Responsible for Foreclosure Crisis
May
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Alex Seitz-Wald: The Real IRS Scandal: Urgent Need for Campaign Finance and Tax Code Reform
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Timothy Karr: Media Activists Organize to Stop Koch Brothers' Takeover of Tribune Newspapers
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Bill Freese: Monsanto Supreme Court Victory on GMO Seed Patent Strengthens Biotech Giants' Control of Agribusiness
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Mark Jaycox: Obama Administration Wiretaps Associated Press Reporters, Seeks New Rules to Make Internet Surveillance Easier
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Carlos Warner: Guantanamo Defense Lawyer Says White House Action Can End Detainee Hunger Strike and Close the Controversial Prison Camp
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Emma Cheuse: U.S. Court of Appeals Affirms EPA’s Authority to Revoke Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Permit
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Ralph Nader: Ralph Nader: President Obama’s Drone Warfare Program Violates U.S. and International Law
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Sarah Anderson: Corporate CEOs Advocating Austerity Policies Receive Millions in Taxpayer-Subsidized Stock Options
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Gar Alperovitz: Innovative, Democratic and Sustainable Economic Models Emerge as Viable Alternatives to America’s Current Failing System
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Charles Kernaghan: Garment Industry Sweatshop Conditions Led to Tragic Loss of Lives in Bangladesh Building Collapse
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Elizabeth Nash: Anti-Abortion Activists Pass Dozens of Laws Restricting Reproductive Rights in GOP State Legislatures Across the U.S.
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Alka Pradhan: Bipartisan Panel Finds U.S. Officials Authorized Torture of Post-9/11 Detainees
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Terry Kay Rockefeller: Sister of 9/11 Victim Urges Nonviolent Response to Boston Marathon Bombing
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Ladd Everitt: U.S. Senate's Failure to Pass Universal Gun Background Check Bill Moves Battle to 2014 Election Campaign
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Bill McKibben: New Global Movement Now Waging Humanity's Most Important Struggle – to Confront Climate Change
April
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Michael Hudson: Investigation Exposes Companies and Individuals in Secretive Global Offshore Banking Network
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Adam Green: Progressive Campaign Group Threatens Primary Challenges to Congressional Democrats Supporting President Obama’s Social Security Cuts
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Diane Polan: Mistrial in New Haven Police Assault Case Underscores Nation's Ongoing Racial Divide
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Thalia Zepatos: As Supreme Court Considers Two Landmark Same Sex Marriage Cases, LGBT Activists Consider Their Response
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Ellen Brown: Cyprus Banking Bailout Plan Provokes Fears of Confiscation of Depositor Funds in US
and UK
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Rev. Samuel Saylor: After Sandy Hook, Urban and Suburban Parents of Gun Violence Victims Make Common Cause to Pass Gun Safety Laws
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Josh Ruebner: President Obama's Israel/Palestine Visit Will Yield Little Unless U.S. Pressures Israel to Halt Settlement Expansion
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Ray McGovern: Retired CIA Officer Reflects on Iraq War Architects' Motives and Lack of Accountability, 10 Years Later
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Seth Gladstone: Environmental Movement Divided on Negotiating Voluntary Fracking Standards with Energy Industry
March
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Ralph Nader: Ralph Nader Campaigns to Increase Federal Minimum Wage to 1968 Level
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Paul Corbit Brown and Elise Keaton: Activists Educate Public on the Destruction of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
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Robert Parry: Questions Linger on the Conduct of Newly Named Pope Francis During Argentina's Brutal Military Dictatorship
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Gregory Wilpert: Assessing the Legacy of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
- Terry O'Neill: Austerity Budget Cuts Disproportionately Affect Women
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Craig Scott Rosebraugh: New Documentary Film Investigates the Influence of Big Oil on U.S. Climate Policy
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David Gans: Supreme Court Challenge to 1965 Voting Rights Act Ignores Present Day Pattern of Voter Discrimination
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Michelle Alexander: U.S. Drug War's Mass Incarceration Provokes New Jim Crow Era
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Nathan Fuller: Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty to 10 Charges, Explains Motive for Release of Classified Government Documents to WikiLeaks
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Lisa Graves: Investigation Reveals Interests Behind Astroturf "Fix the Debt" Campaign to Slash Nation's Social Safety Net
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Jackie Thomas: Tar Sands Opponents Form Cross-Border Alliance to Stop Keystone XL Pipeline
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Chris Hebdon: Planned Pentagon-Funded Yale Research Project Mobilizes Opposition from Campus and Community
February
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Brett Kaufman: Leaked Memo and John Brennan Confirmation Hearing Spur Opposition to U.S. Drone Program Targeting U.S. Citizens
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Carl J. Mayer: Appeals Court Hears Challenge to NDAA Government Power to Indefinitely Detain U.S. Citizens
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Marty Isaac: In Newtown Massacre Aftermath, Grassroots Movement Campaigns to Strengthen Connecticut Gun Laws
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Maegan Ortiz: Punitive Action a Major Feature of 2013 Proposed Immigration Reform Legislation
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Rita Nakashima Brock: "Moral Injury" a Key Factor in Rising Suicide Rates Among U.S. Veterans
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Martin Smith: "The Untouchables": Frontline Investigates Why the Federal Government Failed to Prosecute Wall Street Bankers Over Financial Crash
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Phyllis Bennis: Status Quo Wins in Israel's Elections: Prospects Dim for Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks Revival
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Melinda Tuhus: Portland, Maine Protest Opposes Plans to Pump Tar Sands Oil from Canada to New England, Largest to Date in Northeast
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Alexis Tsipras: Greek Left Coalition Leader Challenges Austerity Politics in Greece, Europe and the World
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Medea Benjamin: U.S. Drone Strikes Breed Hatred; Serve as Recruitment Tool for America’s Enemies
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Dylan Voorhees: Campaign Opposing Canadian Tar Sands Oil Comes to New England
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Tim Sullivan: “State of the Dream 2013" Report Finds Racial Wealth Divide Fueled by Housing Crash
January
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Norman Solomon: House Progressive Caucus Enables Obama's Concessions to Tea Party GOP Demands
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Glen Collins: Keystone XL Pipeline Protests Part of Wider Movement Opposing Fossil Fuel Extraction Industry
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Eva Golinger: Opposition Reacts to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s Grave Health Situation With Demand for New Election
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Richard Eskow: White House–Congressional Fiscal Cliff Deal Comes at High Price
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Hillary Haldane: Violence Against Women, Stigmatization of Victims Persists Across Cultures
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Heather Benno: FBI Documents Confirm Government Collaborated with Big Banks to Spy on Occupy Wall Street Movement
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Lori Wallach: Secretly Negotiated Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Treaty Prioritizes Corporate Power over Governments
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Paul Anastas: West Antarctica Climate Now Warming Three Times Faster Than Global Average, New Report Finds
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Josh Stearns: FCC Rules Change Would Further Consolidate Media Ownership, Reduce Diversity
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Lisa Graves: Unholy Alliance: The Disturbing Relationship Between the NRA and ALEC
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Matt Wall: Progressive Legislators/Activists Oppose Obama’s Fiscal Cliff Proposal to Cut Social Security Benefits
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Justin Mazzola: Amnesty International Continues to Work for Release of Imprisoned Native American Activist Leonard Peltier
December
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Joshua Horwitz: Will the Slaughter of the Innocents in Newtown, Conn. be a Catalyst for Stricter Gun Laws?
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Michael Moore: Michael Moore, Award-winning Director of "Bowling for Columbine," Reflects on Newtown Massacre and America’s Culture of Violence
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Eric LeCompte: Why Closing Offshore Corporate Tax Loopholes Should Play a Key Role in Fiscal Cliff Budget Negotiations
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Glenn Greenwald: Civil Liberties Erosion in President Obama’s Second Term Will Continue Unless Citizens Mobilize
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Jamie Henn: Climate Change Divestment Campaign Pressures Universities to Divest Their Fossil Fuel Stocks
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Frank Hammer: Labor Rights Under Attack Again: Michigan, the Birthplace of U.S. Labor Movement, Adopts "Right to Work" Law
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John Quigley: Defying U.S. and Israel, UN Votes to Recognize Palestine as "Nonmember Observer State"
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Alex Lawson: Progressive Coalition Draws Line in Sand to Protect Social Safety Net Programs in Fiscal Cliff Negotiations
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Cherri Foytlin: Motivated by Concern for her Children's Future, Louisiana Mother of 6 Makes Journey as Climate Change Activist
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Cindy and Craig Corrie: Slain Peace Activist Rachel Corrie's Parents Reflect on Gaza Visit Just Before Recent Cross-Border Violence
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Joe Lovett: Facing Lawsuit, Patriot Coal Company Agrees to Phase Out Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
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David Bacon: Nationwide Walmart Workers' Strike Defies Retail Giant's Anti-Union Intimidation Tactics
November
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Phyllis Bennis: Israeli Occupation and Blockade is Root Cause of Gaza Conflict
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Max Richtman: Labor, Progressive Groups Call on Obama to Protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid During "Fiscal Cliff" Negotiations
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Pablo Benson-Silva: Occupy Sandy Relief Effort Connects Dots Between Wall Street Greed and Nation's Climate Change Paralysis
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Bill Fletcher Jr.: After Delivering Critical Votes for Obama and Democrats, Labor Now Moves on Post-Election Agenda
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Terry O'Neill:
Republican "War on Women" Provokes Backlash at Polls and Key Victories
for Progressive Candidates
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Sally Bingham: California Launches Landmark Cap-and-Trade Program with Auction of Greenhouse Gas Pollution Permits
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John Nichols: Progressive Gains in U.S. Senate Defy Pundits' Declaration of "Status Quo" Election
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Nick Nyhart: In Wake of Record-Breaking Spending in 2012 Election Campaign, Public May be Ready to Demand Reform
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Joy Gordon: Iran's Civilians Bear Brunt of International Sanctions
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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