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.
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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 Isaiah Poole, editor of the Campaign for America's Future blog, OurFuture.org, conducted by Scott Harris
As the Christmas holiday congressional recess drew near, members of both major political parties worked to pass a federal 2015 budget, nicknamed the “Cromnibus,” for Continuing Resolution and OMNIBUS budget bill, in order to avoid a government shutdown. But unknown to many legislators and the public, an obscure but important provision was inserted into the bill just before the first round of voting began. The measure supported by President Obama, Republicans and Wall Street-friendly Democrats, weakens a key part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill that was passed by Congress in the wake of the 2008 economic meltdown.
Now, with congressional passage of the $1.1 trillion 2015 budget, the Dodd-Frank rule that had prohibited banks from making specific risky derivatives trades in units insured by the government has been repealed. The specific language of the provision, written almost word-for-word by Citibank lobbyists, restores taxpayer-funded bailouts for the nation’s giant banks that engage in reckless behavior. In a related and ironic twist, the budget also includes a rider that increases by 10 times the amount wealthy individuals can donate to political parties to $1.5 million per two-year election cycle. The previous limit was $194,400.
After a last ditch, but unsuccessful effort to remove the Wall Street favored provision, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, unleashed a verbal attack on Citibank from the Senate floor saying that she agreed with Citibank that the Dodd-Frank reform legislation wasn’t perfect, declaring, “It should have broken you into pieces.” Between The Lines’ Scott Harris spoke with Isaiah Poole, editor of the Campaign for America's Future blog, who examines the outsized influence of Wall Street on U.S. politics, which led to the unpopular restoration of big bank bailouts.
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