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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



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



SPECIAL REPORT: "Resistance Round Table: The Unraveling Continues..." Jan. 13, 2018





SPECIAL REPORT: "Capitalism to the ash heap?" Richard Wolff, Jan. 2, 2018




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SPECIAL REPORT: Nina Turner's address, Working Families Party Awards Banquet, Dec. 14, 2017



SPECIAL REPORT: Mic Check, Dec. 12, 2017



SPECIAL REPORT: Resistance Roundtable, Dec. 9, 2017




SPECIAL REPORT: On Tyranny - one year later, Nov. 28, 2017



SPECIAL REPORT: Mic Check, Nov. 12, 2017



SPECIAL REPORT: Resistance Roundtable, Nov. 11, 2017



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




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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THANK YOU TO EVERYONE...

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

Jeremy Scahill keynote speech, part 1 from PROUDEYEMEDIA on Vimeo.

Jeremy Scahill keynote speech, part 2 from PROUDEYEMEDIA on Vimeo.


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Between The Lines Presentation at the Left Forum 2016

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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.



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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Between The Lines' Executive Producer Scott Harris hosts a live, weekly talk show, Counterpoint, from which some of Between The Lines' interviews are excerpted. Listen every Monday evening from 8 to 10 p.m. EDT at www.WPKN.org (Follows the 5-7 minute White Rose Calendar.)

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This Week on Between The Lines

Posted Jan. 1, 2014 for week ending Jan. 10, 2014

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"There are two bills that have emerged at the fore. One, the leading the bill, is sponsored by Sen. Patrick Leahy from Vermont ... (and) co-sponsored in the House ... by Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, a Republican from Wisconsin. (They are) the principal authors of the Patriot Act. Their bill, The USA Freedom Act would quite dramatically curtail NSA abuses."

– Interview with Shahid Buttar, Bill of Rights Defense Committee's executive director, on the growing challenges to the NSA's surveillance. Leahy and Sensenbrenner say that agencies have co-opted the tools in the Patriot Act and that broad-based, blanket and mass surveillance is never what they, as authors of that bill, had intended.


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Challenges to NSA Dragnet Surveillance Gain Momentum

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Interview with Shahid Buttar, Bill of Rights Defense Committee's executive director, conducted by Scott Harris

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As 2013 came to a close, several major developments were underway in the ongoing public controversy and challenge to National Security Agency dragnet surveillance of communications here in the U.S. and abroad. U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, made a surprising preliminary ruling in a lawsuit brought against the NSA by conservative legal activist Larry Klayman. In his Dec. 16 decision, Judge Leon said that the NSA’s massive collection of phone call logs or metadata, is likely a violation of privacy rights and unconstitutional. He went on to describe the NSA’s technology as “almost Orwellian.” That decision was followed on Dec. 29 by a ruling in another case where federal Judge William H. Pauley III, found that NSA blanket collection of phone data is lawful; setting up a future showdown at the U.S. Supreme Court.  Story continues

Beyond Coal: Alliance for Appalachia Plans for Regional Economic Transition

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Interview with Johanna deGraffenreid, organizer with the Alliance for Appalachia's Economic Transition Summit, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

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In mid-December, a coalition of 15 grassroots groups calling itself the Alliance for Appalachia hosted an Economic Transition Summit dubbed, “Planning for Appalachia’s Bright Future.” At the gathering in West Virginia participants discussed opportunities to develop new economic models in Central Appalachia beyond coal mining.  Story continues

Amazon's $600 Million Contract with CIA Casts Shadow on Washington Post's Integrity

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Interview with Robert McChesney, professor of communication at the University of Illinois, founder of Free Press, conducted by Scott Harris

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When Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder and CEO of Amazon.com, purchased the Washington Post for $250 million on Oct. 1, concern was expressed about the possible future conflicts of interest between Bezos’ business interests at Amazon and the Post’s coverage of commerce and politics. Now, with the disclosure that Amazon’s Web services division won a CIA contract worth $600 million to build the intelligence agency a “private cloud” for its data needs, question about the Post’s conflicts of interest and objectivity are very real.  Story continues

This week’s summary of under-reported news

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