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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"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 Gar Alperovitz, professor of political economy and author of "What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution", conducted by Scott Harris
Economists and pundits tell us that the U.S. economy is slowly healing after the near collapse ushered in by the housing bubble bursting in 2007 and 2008. And while the unemployment rate was down a little in May to a four-year low of 7.5 percent, the "real" unemployment rate, which counts the underemployed and discouraged workers, is 13.8 percent of the workforce. The “Great Recession” exposed the unpleasant reality of many of the longstanding downward trends in the American economy, where the middle class is shrinking, income and wealth inequality are and families are struggling to buy or keep their homes, pay health care bills and afford college tuition.
The partisan gridlock in Washington also reveals a political system where, more often than not, those with the most money and power win elections and determine public policy mostly benefiting the elite. The Occupy Wall Street movement born in 2011 was an expression of this malaise, calling attention to a broken system urgently in need of repair.
Into this bleak scene, where many citizens have come to believe that America’s best days are behind us, Gar Alperovitz, a professor of political economy at the University of Maryland, tells us there are many reasons to be hopeful. In his new book, "What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution,” Alperovitz examines innovative, democratic and sustainable alternatives to America’s current failing system. Between The Lines’ Scott harris spoke with Alperovitz about new democratically-owned enterprises that are thriving across the nation, such as worker-owned cooperatives, credit unions, public banks and utilities.
For more information on the book and the future of worker- and publicly-owned enterprises, visit garalperovitz.com.
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