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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"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.
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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 Michael Ratner, president emeritus, Center for Constitutional Rights, conducted by Scott Harris
The Dec. 9 release of an executive summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Torture Report set off a debate across the country on both the legality and morality of President Bush’s authorization to use abusive interrogation methods on post-9/11 U.S.-held detainees. The report provides a detailed account of the CIA’s detention and interrogation program using the agency’s own documents.
Among the most disturbing findings were that the CIA used previously unreported torture techniques, including "rectal feeding" of detainees; CIA officers threatened the lives of detainees’ children; the agency misled members of Congress and the White House about the failure of torture techniques to produce actionable intelligence on terrorist threats; at least 26 detainees were wrongfully held and did not meet the government’s standard for detention; the CIA leaked classified information to journalists, exaggerating the success of interrogation methods in an effort to gain public support – and the agency hired and paid $80 million to inexperienced contractors who helped develop and operate the torture program.
Former Bush administration officials, Republican legislators and conservative pundits defended the torture program, with former Vice President Dick Cheney stating in interviews that he’d authorize the so-called “enhanced interrogation program” again in a minute. A Washington Post-ABC News poll published on Dec. 16 found that by an almost 2-1 margin Americans supported the CIA’s brutal methods, even as about half agreed that the treatment amounted to torture. Between The Lines’ Scott Harris spoke with Michael Ratner, president emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights and co-counsel in European legal cases attempting to hold former president George W. Bush and other former U.S. officials accountable for violations of international law. Here, he discusses the most important revelations in the Senate Torture Report and the urgent need for accountability and prosecuting Bush White House and CIA officials who ordered and carried out the torture of U.S.-held detainees.
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