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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who helped make our 25th anniversary with Jeremy Scahill a success!
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Jeremy Scahill keynote speech, part 1 from PROUDEYEMEDIA on Vimeo.
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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.
Listen to audio of the plenary sessions from the weekend.
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 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.
It was Greenwald who first broke the story about the National Security Agency’s program that secretly collects phone data from millions of Verizon customers. The Guardian published an order by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court which granted the government unlimited authority to obtain the data of phone calls made within the U.S. and between the US and nations abroad for a three-month period. Through information provided by Snowden, a second story soon broke detailing the NSA’s Prism program, which collects data directly from the servers of the nation’s nine largest Internet companies, including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google and Facebook.
Obama administration officials and legislators serving on congressional intelligence committees, assure the public that the government’s data mining programs are legal, subject to checks and balances and necessary to prevent future terrorist attacks on America. But critics declare that President Obama has institutionalized the worst aspects of President Bush’s warrantless surveillance program, with little meaningful oversight and open to serious abuse. Between The Lines’ Scott Harris spoke with Heidi Boghosian, executive director of the National Lawyers Guild, who explains her alarm and opposition to the government's massive domestic spying program.
Heidi Boghosian is author of the book, “Spying on Democracy.” Find more information on the National Lawyers Guild at NLG.org.
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