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 April 29, 2015 for week ending May 8, 2015
"The U.S. has from the get-go, fully backed this Saudi-led bombardment of Yemen. If the U.S. wants to play a positive role, the first thing it should do is immediately push at the UN Security Council, a resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire at the very least to allow a humanitarian corridor to be created so that Yemenis who are seeking to leave the country can leave, and so that aid, food, fuel, water other things that Yemenis desperately need can get into the country."
– Chris Toensing, executive director of the Middle East Research and Information Project and editor of Middle East report
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Interview with Chris Toensing, executive director of the Middle East Research and Information Project and editor of Middle East report, conducted by Scott Harris
The war in Yemen between Shiite Houthi rebels and forces loyal to Yemen’s President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi began last September after rebels seized control of the capital city of Sanaa. The World Health Organization says that the death toll from the conflict has now exceeded 1,000. Saudi Arabia and Gulf allied nations launched airstrikes targeting the Houthis on March 26. But Jamal Benomar, the former United Nations envoy who mediated talks between Yemen’s warring factions says that the Saudi air campaign derailed a power-sharing agreement that was close to being finalized.
Story continues
Interview with Sophia Cope, staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, conducted by Scott Harris
Several of the most controversial provisions of the post-911 USA Patriot Act that former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed to the world in 2013 are set to expire this year on June 1. Foremost among them is Section 215, which the Bush administration and the National Security Agency has interpreted as permitting the U.S. government to engage in the bulk collection of American’s phone call records. Section 215 has also been the target of civil liberties advocates who charge that warrantless surveillance of innocent citizen’s communications meta data is unconstitutional.
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Interview with Jen Siskind, staffer with the Connecticut chapter of Food & Water Watch, conducted by Melinda Tuhus
Five New England governors met behind closed doors in Hartford, Connecticut on April 23 to discuss regional cooperation on energy, specifically when it comes to increasing the availability of fracked natural gas. The governors say investments in the billions of dollars are needed in natural gas pipelines and transmission wires, in order to reduce New England's electricity prices, which, outside of Hawaii, are the highest in the U.S.
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This week’s summary of under-reported news
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- In the aftermath of the tragic deaths in the Mediterranean Sea of 900 migrants from wartorn Middle East and Africa, the European Union was compelled to reconsider its hardline approach against immigrants. In an emergency summit, EU leaders voted to triple the budget for sea rescue and intensified efforts to break up migrant smugglers’ networks. ("Migrant deaths: EU leaders to triple funding for rescue operations," Guardian, April 24, 2015; "EU pledges to rescue migrants, but not fix the problem," Reuters, April 23, 2015; "Europe’s Sinking Shame," Amnesty International, April 22, 2015)
- In December, progressive activist shareholders won a major victory when military contractor Northrop Grumman cancelled its membership in the right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC, a key force promoting voter suppression laws, gun rights, the privatization of public education and other conservative policies. Thus far, over a 100 corporations have pulled out of ALEC due to shareholder and public pressure. ("Storming the Corporate Castle,"
In These Times, March 23, 2015)
- Months before Hillary Clinton launched her 2016 presidential campaign with a listening tour in Iowa, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus sent a team of opposition researchers to Little Rock, Arkansas to dig up dirt on the former first lady and secretary of state. ("Raiders of the Lost Archives," Mother Jones, May/June 2015)
Recent Shows
May
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Sarah Jaffe: Low-Wage Workers Organize Largest Nationwide Protest to Push for $15 Minimum Wage
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Wilma Subra: On Fifth Anniversary of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Not All Is Well in the Gulf
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Isaiah Poole: 'Populism 2015' Conference Crafts Progressive Agenda to Influence 2016 Presidential Election Debate
April
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Paul Kawika Martin: GOP and Iranian Hardliners Aim to Kill International Iran Nuclear Deal
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Steve Berg: Programs to Eliminate Homelessness Within Reach, But Require Funding
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Aquene Freechild: Citizen Groups Urge President to Issue Executive Order Mandating Federal Contractors Disclose Political Spending
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Josh Ruebner: Israel's Election Outcome Confirms Death of 2-State Solution, Demands New U.S. Middle East Policy
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Lindsay Koshgarian: Republicans and White House Push for Major Increases in Military Spending in 2016 Budget
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Dave Johnson: The Congressional Progressive Caucus' 'People's Budget' Takes on the Issue of Income Inequality
March
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Jim Lobe: Neocon Campaign to Derail Iran Nuclear Talks Increases Likelihood of War
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Lizz Brown: Department of Justice Report on Pervasive Racism in Ferguson Police and Courts Provokes Calls for Accountability
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Donald Cohen: Privatizing Prisons: A Bad Deal for Inmates and Society
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Khalilah L. Brown-Dean: 50 Years After Selma March, New Report Finds Party Politics Increasingly Polarized by Race
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Micah Uetricht: Chicago's Progressive Movement Rallies to Defeat Mayor Rahm Emanuel's Re-Election
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Anja Rudiger: Despite Setbacks, Vermont Grassroots Campaign Pushes for First-in-Nation Single Payer Health Care System
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Robert Naiman: Netanyahu To U.S. Congress: Choose War with Iran Over Negotiations
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Charles Chandler: Activist Walks Hundreds of Miles and Risks Arrest to Focus Attention on Climate Change
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Craig Aaron: After Winning Historic Victory, Net Neutrality Activists Must Defend Against Coming Industry Attacks
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Mark Weisbrot: Greek Syriza Party Makes Progress Challenging Austerity Policies in Four-Month Eurozone Bailout Extension
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Phyllis Bennis: What's Behind the Warped Theology and Origin of ISIS Terrorists?
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Margaret Flowers: Opponents Mobilize to Stop Fast Track and TransPacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement
February
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Matthew Hoh: The Failure of Military Interventions Haunts President’s Push for New Congressional War Authorization
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Samuel Fey: Study Finds Accelerating Rate of Species Mass Die-Offs Around the Globe
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James S. Henry: Leaked Documents Reveal HSBC Bank's Dirty Dealings with Tax Dodgers, Drug Traffickers and Arms Dealers
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Lev Golinkin: In Escalating U.S.-Russian Proxy War, Eastern Ukraine Humanitarian Crisis Ignored
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Carling Sothoron: Opposing Cove Point Maryland LNG Terminal, Activists Launch Civil Disobedience Actions
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Michael Copps: As FCC Readies New Net Neutrality Rules, Telecom Giants Plan Legal and Legislative Offensive
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Mel Goodman: Netanyahu's Arrogant Obstruction Signals Need to Change U.S.-Israeli Relations
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Ali Al-Ahmed: Obama and West Remain Silent on Saudi Arabia’s Dismal Human Rights Record
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Mark Price: New Report Documents 'The Increasingly Unequal States of America'
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Richard Wolff: Leftist Syriza Party Victory in Greece Strengthens Anti-Austerity Movement Across Europe
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Penni Lechne and Maya van Rossum: Fracking Opponents Make Their Voices Heard at Pennsylvania Governor’s Inauguration
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Kennette Benedict: Unchecked Climate Change and Nuclear Weapons Modernization Moves 'Doomsday Clock' Two Minutes Closer to Midnight
January
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Coleen Rowley: FBI 9/11 Whistle-blower Coleen Rowley: Post-Charlie Hebdo Massacre Rush to Expand Warrantless Surveillance Counterproductive
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Mike Leyba: Minority Communities Excluded, Marginalized from U.S. Banking System
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John Pawelek: Remembering the 1965 Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights March
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Marcy Wheeler: Freedom of the Press a Key Issue in Trial of Former CIA Officer Jeffrey Sterling
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Richard Heinberg: Declining Global Demand Triggers Dramatic Oil Price Drop
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Alisa Simmons: Opponents Campaign to Defeat Fast Track Trade Authority and Trans-Pacific Partnership
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Ellen Brown: G-20 Pushes New Banking Rule That Could Confiscate Deposits and Pensions in Future Financial Crisis
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Chris Espinosa: Congressional Budget Rider Allows Continued Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining, Toxic Waste Dumping
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Paul Gunter: Opting Not to Order Safety Improvements to U.S. Nuclear Plants, NRC Ignores Lessons of Fukushima
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Steve Schnapp: Government Policy Produces Record Levels of Economic Inequality in U.S.
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Osprey Orielle: Activists at Lima UN Climate Talks Advocate for Gender Equality
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Dave Johnson: Upsurge in Activism was Good News for Progressives in 2014
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Peter Kornbluh: After 55 Years, Obama Acknowledges U.S. Cuba Policy Was a Failure
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Sandra Steingraber: New York Becomes the First State in Nation to Ban Fracking
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Paul Engler: New Movement Confronting Police Violence Could Expand to Address Economic Inequality
December
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Michael Ratner: U.S. Defies UN Treaty Obligation to Prosecute Officials Who Authorized and Carried Out CIA Torture
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Isaiah Poole: Wall Street "Owns" Congress as Both Parties Vote to Reinstate Taxpayer-Funded Bank Bailouts
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Energy Activists: Launch 'Week of Respect and Resistance' Protests in Opposition to Expansion of Fracked Natural Gas Pipeline
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Glen Ford: Coast to Coast Explosion of Protest Confronts Police Violence in Communities of Color
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Matthew Hoh: President Obama Reverses Course on Ending America's Longest War in Afghanistan
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Mark Colville: Anti-Drone Peace Activist Avoids Jail Time for Protest, Asks that Focus Remains on Drone Victims
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Tory Russell: Injustice Seen in Ferguson is Rallying Cry for Movement Confronting Police Violence Across U.S.
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Philip Weiss: With Two-State Solution Dead, Will Palestinians Launch a Third Intifada?
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Bobby King: Sand Mined for Fracking Wells in Midwest Generates Environmental and Health Concerns
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Rev. Peter Morales: Ferguson Streets Explode in Anger After Grand Jury Opts Not to Indict Darren Wilson
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Daniel Altschuler: Obama Immigration Executive Order Provokes GOP Rage, Inspires Activists to Agitate for Comprehensive Reform
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Amanda Allen: After Midterm Election Defeats, Pro-Choice Activists Brace for Renewed Efforts to Further Erode Access to Abortion
November
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Karen Orenstein: New U.S. -China Carbon Targets Fall Short of Reductions Needed to Avert Climate Change Disaster
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James Gustave "Gus" Speth: Failed Politics, Runaway Consumerism is Root Cause of Environmental Decline
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Craig Aaron: Six Years After 2008 Campaign Pledge, President Obama Pushes for Net Neutrality
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Sam Pizzigati: Why Candidates of Both Parties Avoided Debate on Rising Economic Inequality in 2014 Campaign
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Karthik Ganapathy: Climate Change Activist Groups Gear Up to Fight New GOP Senate Majority Push to Build Keystone XL Pipeline
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Sean Glenn: Young Activist Explains Her Deep Commitment to Reverse Climate Change
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Greg Palast: Investigation Reveals New GOP Tactic to Purge Millions of Minority Voters in 28 States
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Katherine Culliton-Gonzalez: Voter Suppression Laws Field Tested in 2014 Election, May Have Determined Outcome in Several Races
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Sam Jewler: Covert Corporate Cash Funneled Through U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Tops List of Dark Money Donors in 2014 Congressional Campaigns
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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