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!
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
"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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U.S. Government's Prosecution of Investigative Reporter James Risen Threatens Freedom of the Press
Posted Oct. 15, 2014
Interview with Norman Solomon, author and activist, conducted by Scott Harris
For more than six years, New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and author James Risen has been the target of federal prosecutors for his refusal to disclose his sources. The Department of Justice has ordered Risen to testify against one of his alleged sources, former CIA agent Jeffrey Sterling, who it is believed provided the journalist with confidential information regarding a failed CIA operation to sabotage Iran’s nuclear weapons program, which was published in Risen's 2006 book, “State of War.” Thus far, Risen has refused to cooperate with prosecutors and identify his source, stating that he would rather go to jail than give up everything he believes in.
An article published on the front page of the Nation magazine on Oct. 8 titled, “The Government War Against Reporter James Risen,” examines the Obama administration’s pattern of retaliating against independent journalists and whistle-blowers, which the authors say undermines freedom of the press, an essential foundation for a healthy democracy. The article written by RootsAction.org co-founder Norman Solomon and Marcy Wheeler asserts that the prosecution of Risen and Sterling is designed to conceal controversial and embarrassing aspects of U.S. foreign policy from the American people – and intimidate future government whistle-blowers and journalists who would tell their stories.
During six years of the Obama administration, whistle-blower investigations opened under the 1917 Espionage Act is more than double the number of those conducted in all previous presidential administrations combined. In recent months, more than 100,000 people have signed a petition demanding that the federal government stop its prosecution of James Risen. Between The Lines’ Scott Harris spoke with Norman Soloman, a former California congressional candidate, author and activist, who talks about why he believes the prosecution of James Risen constitutes a threat to all journalists and press freedom.
Norman Solomon is also the author of “War Made Easy, How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning us to Death.” Read more of Norman Solomon’s columns at normonsolomon.com.
Related Links:
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Interview with Norman Soloman, conducted by Scott Harris, Counterpoint, Oct. 13, 2014 (14:42)
- Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press at rcfp.org
- Committee to Protect Journalists at cpj.org
- "The Government War Against Reporter James Risen," The Nation, Oct. 8, 2014
- Press conference with James Risen and his supporters (Video) at C-SPAN, Aug. 14, 2014
- "On Leak Prosecutions, Obama Takes it to 11. (Or Should We Say 526?" ACLU
- "James Risen is not going to let the US fear-mongering machine win in secret," The Guardian, Oct. 15, 2014
- "New York Times Reporter James Risen Finds ‘Crazy Is The New Normal' In War On Terror," Huffington Post, Oct. 14, 2014
- "Speed Read: James Risen Indicts The War On Terror’s Costly Follies," The Daily Beast, Oct. 14, 2014
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"James Risen prepared to 'Pay Any Price' to Report on
'War on Terror(ism)' Amid Crackdown on Whistleblowers,"
(extended interview) Democracy Now!, Oct. 14, 2014
- "Press Freedom Groups Rally For Journalist James Risen, Who Faces Jail Time for Refusing to Reveal Sources," Between The Lines, Aug. 20, 2014
- "Free press groups petition Attorney General on behalf of journalist James Risen," Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press, Aug. 14, 2014
- "We Support James Risen Because We Support a Free Press," Roots Action, Aug. 14, 2014
- "An Assault from Obama’s Escalating War on Journalism," Roots Action, May 29, 2014
- "Press freedom groups file petition to halt legal action against N.Y. Times reporter," McClatchy, Aug. 14, 2014
- "Iran serious about nuclear deal, says senior Israeli intelligence official," IntelNews, June 11, 2014
- "James Risen To Journalists: 'Surrender Or Fight' Against Government," Huffington Post, Nov. 28, 2013
- "House Approves Amendment To Protect Journalists From Revealing Sources," Huffington Post, May 30, 2014
- "National security reporter honored by first-amendment group," Boston Globe, Feb. 8, 2014