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 Nov. 5, 2014 for week ending Nov. 14, 2014
"We're having elections which are being decided not by what the vote is, but who's blocking the vote. It's a secret purge. And that's one of the things that makes it insidious and most dangerous. "
– Interview with Greg Palast, journalist and author, on the Interstate Crosscheck System, a project of right-wing Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who’s known for his advocacy of restrictive voter ID laws and anti-immigrant legislation nationwide
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Interview with Greg Palast, journalist and author, "Billionaires and Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps", conducted by Scott Harris
A six-month investigation conducted by journalist and author Greg Palast for Al Jazeera America has uncovered a new method by which 28 states, mostly controlled by the Republican Party, have threatened to purge as many as 3 million predominantly minority voters from the voting rolls in the 2014 midterm election and beyond. Palast's report, titled: “Jim Crow Returns,” examines something called the Interstate Crosscheck System, a project of right-wing Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who’s known for his advocacy of restrictive voter ID laws and anti-immigrant legislation nationwide.
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Interview with Katherine Culliton-Gonzalez, senior attorney with Advancement Project, conducted by Melinda Tuhus
As citizens across the U.S. cast ballots in the 2014 mid-term election, 22 states, most of them controlled by the Republican Party, had passed a variety of laws that made it harder for specific groups of people to vote. The measures included a reduction in the days and hours of early voting, new obstacles placed on absentee ballots, making the registration of new voters more difficult and imposing restrictive voter ID laws, which in Texas alone were estimated to prevent 600,000 citizens from voting. This avalanche of new voting restrictions followed the Supreme Court’s 2013 ruling, which gutted a key section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Interview with Sam Jewler, communications officer with Public Citizen's U.S. Chamber Watch, conducted by Scott Harris
Since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its 5 to 4 ruling in the Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission case in January 2010, the floodgates of unlimited and unaccountable money have been pouring into U.S. political campaigns. Attempts made to pass congressional legislation to mitigate the effects of the high court ruling that supported the expansion of secret corporate campaign contributions in U.S. elections have thus far all failed.
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This week’s summary of under-reported news
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Compiled by Bob Nixon
- At the 2013 U.S.-China Oil and Gas Industry Forum in south Xi’an, China, over 150 energy executives gathered to boost extraction of China’s abundant shale natural resources. There was hand-shaking among the chiefs of U.S. energy giants such as Chevron, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil. ("The Great Frack Forward," Mother Jones, Sept. 9, 2014)
- In late October, drivers for the new transportation company Uber turned off their smart phones in protest of low wages. ("The sharing economy’s first strike: Uber drivers turn off the app," In These Times, Oct. 22, 2014)
- Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is among the top tier of likely 2016 Republican presidential candidates. Among leading Republicans, such as New Jersey’s Chris Christie and Florida’s Jeb Bush, Paul is the only candidate with a strong following among conservative millennials. ("Rand Paul’s 2020 Vision," American Prospect, Fall 2014)
Recent Shows
November
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Beau Grosscup: Recent Attacks Targeting Canadian Soldiers Offer Politicians Rationale to Boost Security Policies and Erode Civil Liberties
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Kathy Roberts: Obama White House Considers Adopting Bush Era Policy Allowing Torture Overseas
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Ralph Nader: Ralph Nader: No Legal or Ethical Framework Regulates Earth-Shaking Technologies
October
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Leigh Phillips: Private Profit Trumps Public Health in Research for Ebola Vaccine
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Vernon Haltom: New Study Links Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Dust to Lung Cancer
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Peter Kornbluh: New Book Chronicles 50 Years of Covert U.S-Cuba Relations and Current Opportunity for Normalization
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Kevin Alexander Gray: 'Ferguson October' Civil Disobedience Protests Target Police Violence in Communities of Color Nationwide
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Josh Rovner: Report on Abuse of Adolescent Inmates in New York Draws Attention to Juvenile Justice System Crisis
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Norman Solomon: U.S. Government's Prosecution of Investigative Reporter James Risen Threatens Freedom of the Press
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Jonathan Brater: Supreme Court Allows Ohio to Slash Early Voting Hours as GOP Legislatures Seek to Suppress Minority Vote Nationwide
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Ted Glick: LNG Terminal and Fracking Opponents Target Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for Major Protest
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Peter Hart: In a Now Familiar Pattern, U.S. Corporate Media Cheerlead New U.S. War in Iraq and Syria
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Heidi Boghosian: Outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder's Legacy: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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Jason Fults: Florida Municipally-Owned Electric Utility First in Nation to Stop Use of Mountaintop Removal Coal
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Connor Gibson: Billionaire Koch Brothers Investing Heavily in Climate Change Denial 'Research'
September
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Michael T. McPherson: Veterans Say New U.S.-Led War in Iraq and Syria Will Only Inflame Region's Ethnic Violence
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Lee Stewart: Great March for Climate Action Activists Demand the World Address the Climate Crisis
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Jay O'Hara: In a Surprising Victory, Criminal Charges from Direct Action Confronting Climate Change Are Dropped
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Robert Parry: As NATO Heightens New Cold War Tensions with Russia, U.S. Media Continues to Distort Ukraine Conflict
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Rev. Lee Dreyer: Community Joins Together to Offer Clean Water to Families Affected by Natural Gas Fracking Pollution
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Jonah Minkoff-Zern: Senate Permits Debate on Proposed Constitutional Amendment Reversing Citizens United Ruling
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Raed Jarrar: Renewed U.S. Intervention in Iraq Won't Solve the Nation's Many Internal Ethnic Conflicts
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Leslie Cagan: Activists Gear Up for Historic New York City Climate Change Protest on Sept. 21
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Susan Hanley: Disappearance of Monarch Butterflies Linked to Deforestation and GMO Crops
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David Kotz: Threat of Wider War Looms Over Ukraine as U.S. and NATO Accuse Russia of Intervention in Civil War
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Vernellia Randall: Could Public Outrage at Michael Brown Shooting Death and Widespread Police Brutality Inspire New Civil Rights Movement?
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Tom Torres: After 3-Year Protest Campaign, Swiss Banking Giant UBS Pulls Back from Investments in Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
August
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Kevin Alexander Gray: Police Killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson Exposes U.S. Culture of Racism and Violence
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Jon Devine: Lake Erie Algae Bloom Reveals Lax Regulation and Wider Threat to Nation's Water Supply
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Gregg Leslie: Press Freedom Groups Rally For Journalist James Risen, Who Faces Jail Time for Refusing to Reveal Sources
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Phyllis Bennis: After Declaring 'There's No Military Solution,' Obama Launches New U.S. Military Intervention Targeting ISIS in Iraq
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Tom Stephens: Detroit Citizens Rise Up to Stop Massive Water Shutoffs and Restore Service
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Rebecca Wilkins: Corporations Exploit Loophole to Engage in Overseas 'Inversions,' Avoiding Payment of U.S. Taxes
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Mel Goodman: In Major Breach of the Separation of Powers, CIA Admits Spying on Senate
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Josh Ruebner: Accountability Demanded for U.S. Role in Supplying Munitions and Support for Israel's Bloody War in Gaza
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Deborah Denno: Another Botched Execution in Arizona Calls into Question Ethics of Capital Punishment
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Tom Hayden: U.S. and NATO Actions in Ukraine Predictably Provoke Russia; Could Trigger a New Cold War
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Ralph Nader: Ralph Nader: The Gaza Conflict is an Inevitable Result of Israel’s Suffocating Economic Blockade and Decades of Illegal Occupation
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Dylan Voorhees: Maine City's Ordinance Blocking Tar Sands Export Could Be Model for Cities Nationwide
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Vijay Prashad: Obama Administration Backing for Israeli Gaza Attack Makes U.S. Complicit in Rising Civilian Death Toll
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Dana Frank: Washington Support for Post-Coup Government in Honduras Linked to Flood of Child Refugees at U.S. Border
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Michele Sutter: California Ballot Question Asks Voters to Support Overturning SCOTUS Citizens United Decision
July
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Robert Dreyfuss: As Israel is Accused of Disproportionate Attack on Gaza; International Community Calls for Cease-Fire
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Sandra Steingraber: National Rally Says 'No!' to Fracked Gas Exports from Maryland and Other Proposed Sites Nationwide
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Peter Kornbluh: Chilean Court Finds U.S. Complicit in Murder of Two Americans During Washington-Backed 1973 Chile Coup
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Jeanne Atkinson: Flood of Immigrant Children at U.S. Border Demands Action to Reform Failed Immigration Policies
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Kenneth Margolies: In Further Erosion of Union Rights, Supreme Court Rules Home Care Workers Don’t Have to Pay Union Dues
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Katrina vanden Heuvel: In Iraq U.S. Must Pursue Diplomacy, Not Further Military Intervention
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Frederick Clarkson: Supreme Court Ruling Allows Up to 90 percent of For-Profit Corporations to Impose the Owners' Religious Beliefs on Their Employees
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David Brown: Project Investigates Pennsylvania Health Problems to Determine Links with Natural Gas Fracking
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Tomas Lopez: One Year After Supreme Court Dismantles Voting Right Act, 22 States Have Adopted New Voting Restrictions
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Matt Southworth: U.S. Iraq War Veteran Warns Against New American Military Intervention in Current Iraq Crisis
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Falko Schilling: National Food Industry Launches Legal Attack on Vermont’s New GMO Labeling Law
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Adam Crowther: Supreme Court Rulings on Campaign Finance Opens Door to Big Money Influence in Local Elections
June
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Peter Van Buren: Current Sunni vs. Shiite Religious War in Iraq Tragic Legacy of 2003 U.S. Invasion
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Andrea James: Women Rally for Prison and Sentencing Reform June 21st
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Rachel Tabachnick: Right-Wing Anti-Government Violence, a Growing Threat to Democracy
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Mitch Jones: Environmentalists: Obama Administration Carbon Regulations Don't Go Far Enough
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Martin Ping: Hope for Sustainable Agriculture as a New Wave of Young Farmers Return to the Land
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J. Kirk Wiebe: New Website Provides a Safe Harbor for Future Whistleblowers
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Anand Gopal: U.S. Collaboration with Brutal Afghan Warlords Breeds Resentment and Instability
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Marge Baker: Proposed Constitutional Amendment Would Reverse Recent Supreme Court Rulings on Money in Politics
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Kshama Sawant: Seattle's Socialist City Council Member Wins Battle for $15/Hour Minimum Wage, Highest in the Nation
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Michael McPhearson: Veterans Administration Scandal Over Critical Health Care Delays Began with Decade of U.S. Wars
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Daoud Nassar: Israel Destroys 1500 Fruit Trees at Palestinian "Tent of Nations" Farm
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Harley Geiger: House Removes Key Provisions of Bill Drafted to End NSA Bulk Collection of Americans' Communication Data
May
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Richard Heinberg: Melting of Antarctic Ice Sheet Unstoppable, Will Raise Sea Levels Worldwide
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Marc Mauer: Millions with Felony Convictions Have Lost Voting Rights Across the U.S.
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Erika Eichelberger: Fast Food Workers Organize Global Strike for Higher Pay
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Stephen F. Cohen: Ukraine Crisis Could Escalate Without U.S. Support for Dialogue
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Daniel Patterson: Federal Government Balks at Enforcing Land-Use Law When Confronted by Armed Right-Wing Vigilantes
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Michael Copps: Internet Freedom in Jeopardy Unless Public Takes Action to Preserve Net Neutrality
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Adam Horowitz: U.S.-Brokered Middle East Peace Talks Fail: 'No Deal is Better Than a Bad Deal'
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Jamie Raskin: Universal Rights – An Alternative to Affirmative Action – Further Undermined by U.S. Supreme Court in Michigan Case
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Diann Rust-Tierney: Tragic, Botched Oklahoma Execution Renews Call to Abolish the Death Penalty
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Sam Pizzigati: America's Poor and Middle Class Decline as Counterparts in Europe and Canada Advance
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Ladd Everitt: Georgia's Extreme New Gun Law Allows Firearms in Bars, Schools and Churches
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JeriMarie Liesegang: Activists Decry Treatment of Transgender Teenager held in Solitary Confinement in a Connecticut Prison
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John Quigley: Despite US/EU Support for Kiev, Economic Divorce Between Ukraine and Russia is Unrealistic
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Devin Burghart: Right-Wing Extremist Groups Challenging Authority of Federal Government Find GOP Allies
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Ricki Draper and Joanne Sheehan: 14 Mountaintop Removal Protesters Arrested in November Use Connecticut Court Case to Target UBS
April
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Dr. Michael Dorsey: Latest IPCC Climate Change Report Warns of Disparate Impacts on Economically Vulnerable Populations
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Medea Benjamin: As Peace Activist Medea Benjamin was Brutalized by Egyptian Police, Her Call for Help Ignored by U.S. Embassy
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Timothy Karr: Consumers Will Be Big Losers If FCC Approves Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger
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Jonah Minkoff-Zern: Supreme Court's McCutcheon v. FEC Ruling Increases Power of Super Rich in U.S. Politics
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Kimberly Williams: Opponents of Proposed Alaska Pebble Copper/Gold Mine Applaud EPA Intervention
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Marc Hanson: USAID Secret Operation Spied on 40,000+ Cubans Who Used U.S.-Funded Twitter-like Texting Platform
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Ralph Nader: Ralph Nader: Government Dragnet Surveillance, Collection of Personal Data Threatens Civil Liberties and Democracy Itself
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Robert King: 'Angola 3' Prisoner Robert King's Survival Story: 29 Years in Solitary Confinement for a Crime He Didn’t Commit
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Drew Hudson: Environmental Group Targets NPR for Misleading Coverage of Fracking Issue Linked to Corporate Sponsors
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Chris Hedges: Chris Hedges' Indefinite Detention Lawsuit and the Struggle to Restore Our Civil Liberties
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Andrew Whelton: Lack of Accurate Scientific Information Causes Public Confusion in West Virginia's Recent Toxic Water Spill
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Rev. William Barber: North Carolina's Progressive 'Moral Monday' Protest Movement Resonates Across the Nation
March
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Ray McGovern: Senate-CIA Conflict Over Torture Report Exposes U.S. Spy Agencies' Dangerous Lack of Accountability
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Ken Bossong: Big Oil and Political Allies Exploit Ukraine Crisis to Expedite Natural Gas Extraction and Export
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John Bonifaz: Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens Advocates Six Constitutional Amendments
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Katrina vanden Heuvel: NATO's Eastward March Remains Major Obstacle to Reaching Peaceful Settlement of Ukraine Crisis
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Maya Nye: Two Months After Toxic Spill, West Virginians Face Uncertainty Over Water Safety
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Harvey Wasserman: On Third Anniversary of Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Radiation Continues to Threaten Pacific Ocean