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!
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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This Week on Between The Lines
Posted Aug. 28, 2013 for week ending Sept. 6, 2013
"The idea that a massive U.S. military intervention with cruise missiles launched from U.S. naval ships and so on is totally outrageous in light of the uncertainty of the facts. Even if Bashar al-Assad were to have been proved to have carried this out, it's not at all clear that international law justifies this, especially without any authorization by the U.N. Security Council."
– James Paul, "Syria Unmasked" author and former executive director of Global Policy Forum, on U.S. response to the recent chemical attack upon Syrian civilians
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Interview with James Paul, "Syria Unmasked" author and former executive director of Global Policy Forum, conducted by Scott Harris
In response to the widely reported chemical weapons attack against civilians in the suburbs of Syria’s capital, Damascus, on Aug. 21, the Obama administration signaled that it is preparing to launch airstrikes against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s military forces. Even as United Nations weapons inspectors were attempting to verify the chemical attack that reportedly killed as many as 300 civilians in the town of eastern Ghouta, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry condemned the alleged attack in Syria as a "moral obscenity" and asserted that President Obama believed those responsible must be held accountable.
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Interview with Isaac Ontiveros, a spokesman with the Prison Hunger Strikers Solidarity Coalition, conducted by Melinda Tuhus
On July 8, an estimated 30,000 inmates in the California prison system began a hunger strike, with the goal of ending the common practice of years-long solitary confinement. More than 50 days later, a number of prisoners remain on hunger strike, and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation recently received authorization from a federal judge to begin force-feeding inmates. The United Nations has declared that prisoners held in solitary confinement for more than 15 days constitutes a form of torture.
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Interview with Michael Mariotte, executive director with the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, conducted by Scott Harris
More than two years after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that triggered the meltdown of three nuclear reactors at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi complex, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, the plant’s operator, reported 300 metric tons of highly radioactive water had leaked from storage tanks on-site. Japan’s nuclear regulatory agency labeled the water leak as a “serious incident.” The water leaking from the tank had levels of beta radiation of 80 million becquerels per liter, 8 million times the safe limit for drinking water established by the Japanese Health ministry.
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- Ecuador’s leftist President Rafael Correa is opening up oil exploration in the pristine Yasuni region, recognized by UNESCO as a World Biosphere Reserve. Correa recently scrapped the groundbreaking 2007 agreement, known as the Yanusi-ITT Initiative that would have left 850 million barrels of oil in the ground in exchange for $3.6 billion dollars in aid from wealthy nations. ("Ecuador sparks outcry over plan to drill in rainforest," Wall Street Journal, Aug. 18, 2013; "Plan to ban oil drilling in Amazon is dropped," NY Times, Aug. 16, 2013; "Ecuador president pulls plug on innovative Yasuni-ITT Initiative, authorizing drilling in national park," Amazon Watch, Aug. 16, 2013)
- For years, Texas was infamous for forcing food stamp recipients to be fingerprinted. ("Now, the Pentagon vows to listen," Christian Science Monitor, July 17, 2013; ("Critics underwhelmed with Pentagon plan to stem military sexual assaults," NBCNews.com, Aug. 15, 2013; "California discourages needy from signing up for food stamps," Los Angeles Times, Aug. 17, 2013; "House leadership SNAP proposal would eliminate food assistance for 4 million to 6 million low-income people," Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, Aug. 19, 2013)
- In the aftermath of George Zimmerman’s not-guilty verdict in the killing of Trayvon Martin, members of a group of student activists, known as the Dream Defenders demanded that Florida’s conservative Republican Gov. Rick Scott, call a special session of the state legislature to repeal the “Stand Your Ground” gun law. ("Defending the Dream," Christian Science Monitor, July 18, 2013)
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Chris Toensing: Egypt's Military Executes Bloody Counterrevolution, as U.S. Stands Silent
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Marc Mauer: Opportunity for Criminal Justice Reform Seen in Stop and Frisk Court Ruling and Department of Justice Sentencing Reductions
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Daniel Ellsberg: Daniel Ellsberg Reflects on Bradley Manning Trial Verdict and Current U.S. Crackdown on Whistleblowers and Journalists
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Kade Crockford: Civil Liberties Advocates Say Obama's Proposed NSA Surveillance Reforms Don’t Go Far Enough
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Peter Hart: Amazon.com Billionaire's Purchase of Washington Post: Boosting Influence and "Monetizing" Journalism?
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Vincent Mann: Native Americans Canoe Down Hudson River to Honor Past Treaties and Reclaim Their Sovereignty
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Emad Mekay: Report: U.S. Gave Millions to Anti-Morsi Activists as Washington Says Egyptian Military Coup
"Restored Democracy"
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Ofer Neiman: New Round of Middle East Peace Talks Greeted with Skepticism and Concern
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Amelia Adams: Low-Wage Workers Protest and Strike in Dozens of U.S. Cities, Demanding Living Wages and Union Rights
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Nathan White: Closer Than Expected Vote in House to Defund NSA Dragnet Surveillance Shows Reform is Within Reach
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Steve Norris: 2013 Walk for Our Grandchildren on Climate Change Sends Urgent Message: "Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground"
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Myrna Perez: After Supreme Court Guts Voting Rights Act, Justice Department Challenges New Restrictive State Election Laws
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Judith Brown Dianis: George Zimmerman's Acquittal in Trayvon Martin Murder Trial Provokes Nation to Confront Persistent Racism
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Medea Benjamin: Movement Challenging Drone Surveillance and Warfare at Home and Abroad Gains Momentum
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Rev. Rick Hoyt: Diverse Groups Join Lawsuit to Halt NSA Dragnet Surveillance of U.S. Citizens' Communications
July
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Miko Peled: Israeli War Hero's Son Challenges His Nation's Policies Toward Palestinians
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Chuck Collins: Transition Movement Seeks to Build Community Resilience Amid Energy, Climate Change and Economic Crises
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Frances Moore Lappé: New Mindset Needed to Effectively Protect Earth's Ecosystem
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James S. Henry: Report Finds Super Rich Around the World have Avoided Paying Taxes on More Than $21 Trillion of Hidden Wealth
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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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Mark Hertsgaard: On Behalf of Their Children, Parents' Group Steps Up to Confront Generational Consequences of Climate Change
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Brenda Wright: Response to High Court's Gutting of Voting Rights Act: "Don't Mourn, Organize!"
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Mathew Louis-Rosenberg: Fearless Summer: U.S. Climate Change Groups Escalate Anti-Fossil Fuels Campaign
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Jeff Cohen: Beltway Corporate Media Elite Attack Fellow Journalists for Revealing Government Secrets
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Keith Rushing: Senate Approves Immigration Bill Amendment that will Further Militarize U.S.-Mexico Border
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Shelly Altman: Middle East Peace Delegation Finds Diminishing Hope for Two-State Solution
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Bartlett Naylor: Effort Now Underway in Congress to Restore Depression-Era Glass Steagall Banking Law
June
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Phyllis Bennis: President Obama's Decision to Arm Rebel Groups will Escalate, Not End Syria's Brutal Civil War
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Norman Solomon: Beltway Pundits Vilify Edward Snowden, While Dismissing the Threat of the NSA's Surveillance Programs to Democracy He Exposed
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Phil Smith: Miners Get the Shaft in Patriot Coal Bankruptcy, Suffer Major Cuts to Health and Pension Benefits
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Heidi Boghosian: NSA Leak: Massive Government Surveillance Condemned as Unconstitutional and Threat to a Free Society
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Asli Bali: Pent-Up Grievances Against Authoritarian Rule Explode into Angry Protests Across Turkey
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James Gustave Speth: James Gustave Speth: Survival Depends on Transition to a New, Sustainable Economy
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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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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