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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Selected speeches from the Women's March in Hartford, Connecticut 2018, recorded and produced by Scott Harris
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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
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 Ray McGovern, retired CIA officer, conducted by Scott Harris
On March 11, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., made an unexpected and dramatic speech. In her remarks made from the Senate floor, Feinstein accused the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency of conducting a long campaign of obstruction with the goal of covering up the agency’s illegal post-9/11 torture program. She described the current conflict between her committee and the CIA as a “defining moment” for political oversight of the U.S. intelligence service.
The Senate began investigating the Bush administration’s CIA torture program of post-9/11 detainees in December 2007. After President Obama took office in January 2009, an expanded bi-partisan investigation was launched, but Obama-appointed CIA Director Leon Panetta impeded the Senate review. When the Senate Intelligence Committee completed its 6,300-page investigation report, the CIA objected to its public release claiming there were major inaccuracies. But a suppressed internal document, known as the “Panetta Review,” directly contradicted the CIA’s criticism of the Senate report.
Sen. Feinstein charges that the CIA hacked into computers used by Senate staff investigators, and says that the agency has deliberately withheld and destroyed information critical to understanding the Bush Detention and Interrogation program. The CIA for its part recently referred charges to the Justice Department claiming that Senate staffers stole classified documents. Between The Lines’ Scott Harris spoke with Ray McGovern, a retired 27-year veteran CIA officer who during his career briefed Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush before leaving the agency in 1990. Here, McGovern discusses the current conflict between the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee and the CIA, amid growing concern that the spy agency is now a power unto itself, beyond executive branch or congressional accountability.
Ray McGovern founded the group Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. Ray McGovern's website is raymcgovern.com.
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