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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The Resistance Starts Now!

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 ...

SPECIAL REPORT: "The Resistance - Women's March 2018 - Hartford, Connecticut" Jan. 20, 2018

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

Disturbing developments in the Trump/Republican Agenda
Focus on the tax bill, destruction of our public lands, North Korea and Trump's private CIA. Panel: Scott Harris, Ruthanne Baumgartner and Richard Hill. Special guest: Jo Macallero of Rise and Resist.

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

Lynne Ide, director of program and policy with the Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut, talks about the current state of health care coverage in Connecticut. Interviewed by Richard Hill, WPKN radio producer

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

Two leaders from Redneck Revolt, an anti-racist, anti-capitalist movement, talk about their work organizing with white working class people in Suffolk County, New York. Interviewed by Richard Hill, WPKN radio producer

SPECIAL REPORT: Rainy Day Radio, Nov. 7, 2017

Bruce Gagnon, coordinator for the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, describes the extent of -- and motives underlying -- the vast US network of military bases around the globe. Interviewed by Richard Hill, WPKN radio producer

SPECIAL REPORT: Resisting U.S. JeJu Island military base in South Korea, Oct. 24, 2017

Joyakol, South Korean peace activist and singer, discusses the crisis on the Korean peninsula and focuses on the resistance to the U.S. huge military base being constructed on Jeju Island. The event was sponsored by the Greater New Haven Peace Council and this audio was recorded by Richard Hill, WPKN producer.
Joyakol discusses Americans' biggest misconceptions about the conflict between North and South Korea and the U.S., Interview by Richard Hill, WPKN producer.

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.

2017 Gandhi Peace Awards

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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For those who missed the event, or were there and really wanted to fully absorb its import, here it is in video

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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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Posted June 10, 2015 for week ending June 19, 2015

"What we're demanding is a new (post-Watergate era) 'Church Committee' – (so) that Congress actually stops and takes an audit really of all the surveillance programs that are going on inside the country so that we can get a handle on what effect this is having on our privacy and our civil liberties."

– Sue Udry, executive director of Defending Dissent Foundation on the ongoing fight repeal/reform NSA dragnet warrantless surveillance.

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Civil Liberties Advocates Say USA Freedom Act Falls Short on Reforming NSA Dragnet Surveillance

Interview with Sue Udry, executive director, Defending Dissent Foundation, conducted by Scott Harris

In the congressional debate over reforming the National Security Agency’s dragnet surveillance of American's phone communications, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's political miscalculations allowed three controversial provisions under Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act to expire on June 1. However, the law was reinstated the next day when the Senate passed the USA Freedom Act, which the House had approved earlier. President Obama, who supported the bill, signed the USA Freedom Act into law that same day. Story continues

Opponents Rally to Stop Expansion of Gas Pipeline Near Troubled Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant

Interview with Susan Rubin, climate activist, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

Grassroots groups all over the U.S. are fighting proposals for new or expanded fracked gas pipelines. In the last week of May, about 200 people protested outside the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, demanding that the industry-funded agency stops approving all pending permits for pipelines, compressor stations, gas storage facilities and gas export terminals until the agency is completely reformed. Story continues

GOP Voter Suppression Laws Challenged Ahead of 2016 Presidential Election

Interview with Jennifer Clark, counsel for the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program, conducted by Scott Harris

Since the 2010 midterm election, 21 states, the majority controlled by the Republican Party, have passed an assortment of new laws that make it harder for specific groups of citizens to vote. Fourteen states will have new voting restriction laws in place for the first time in a presidential election in November 2016. These measures include restrictive voter ID laws, reduction in the days and hours of early voting and obstacles placed on registering new voters and accessing absentee ballots. While Republican lawmakers assert new limits on voting rights have been introduced to prevent voter fraud, independent analysis has found no evidence to support their claim. The flood of new regulations disenfranchising voters followed the Supreme Court’s 2013 ruling which gutted a key section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Story continues

This week’s summary of under-reported news

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The migrant crisis in Southeast Asia reached a new peak when the Myanmar Navy escorted a boat full of over 700 immigrants to the western state of Rakhine near the border of Bangladesh and the Bay of Bengal. ("Myanmar escorting migrants to Rakhine state," AFP, June 2, 2015; "Why Southeast Asia faces a migration crisis this summer," Christian Science Monitor, May 19, 2015; "Aung San Suu Kyi: where are you?" BBC, June 1, 2015)
British Prime Minister David Cameron has initiated discussions with European officials with the goal of negotiating a weaker relationship with the European Union. Cameron has named a number of Tory hardliners to his negotiating committee and is talking up the possibility of withdrawing from the European Convention of Human Rights if major concessions are not granted before the UK’s 2017 referendum on altering its relationship with the EU. ("David Cameron prepared to break with Europe over human rights," Guardian, June 2, 2015; "Britain must give up EU veto it opts out, Cameron told," Guardian, June 2, 2015)
Republican Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush was the featured speaker at an early June weekend confab of top coal executives and Republican donors at an exclusive retreat in Bristol, Virginia. The hour long speech, which was off limits to the press, comes as coal executives and coal state politicians are in a pitched battle with the US Environmental Protection Agency over the final rules on carbon pollution. Energy executives and their Congressional allies increasingly complain of an orchestrated "war on coal." ("Jeb Bush cozies up to Coal industry barons at closed-door meeting," The Guardian, May 29, 2015)

Recent Shows

June

Week Ending June 12, 2015

Medea Benjamin: Women's Walk for Peace Across Demilitarized Zone Advocates Peace Treaty Between North and South Korea
Sydney Grange: Protesters Demand Federal Energy Commission Stop Rubber-Stamping Gas Industry Projects
Jean Ross: Presidential Candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders Champions Robin Hood Tax on Wall Street

Week Ending June 5, 2015

Adam Johnson: U.S. Media Buries the Lead in Special Forces Assault Inside Syria
Rebecca Craven: Wisconsin Dane County Zoning Board Demands Spill Insurance for Proposed Tar Sands Pipeline
Peter Jenkins: Environmentalists Say White House Pollinator Health Task Force Protections Fall Short

May

Week Ending May 29, 2015

Kevin Zeese: Opponents Say Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Deal Will Impose Defacto Corporate Governance
Costas Panayotakis: Eurozone Fears Spread of Resistance If Greece Wins Concessions on Austerity
Ardeth Platte: Antiwar Protesters' Conviction for Sabotage at U.S. Nuclear Facility Overturned

Week Ending May 22, 2015

Shahid Buttar: In Landmark Ruling, Federal Appeals Court Finds NSA Bulk Collection of Americans' Phone Data Illegal
Amanda Starbuck: Rainforest Action Network Campaign Pushes Bank of America to End Financing of Coal
Russ Choma: One Percent of the One Percent Dominates Funding of U.S. Electoral Politics

Week Ending May 15, 2015

Brad Braxton: Seeds of Change Found in the Ashes of Baltimore's Uprising
Nicole Fortier: New Book Chronicles Growing Consensus Advocating U.S. Criminal Justice System Reform
Greg Guma: Will Sanders' Run for the White House Help Build a National Progressive Movement Beyond '16 Campaign?

Week Ending May 8, 2015

Chris Toensing: Saudi Airstrikes and Blockade Exacerbate Yemen’s Humanitarian Crisis
Sophia Cope: As Patriot Act Section 215 Expires, Campaign Pushes for Reform of Dragnet Government Surveillance
Jen Siskind: Environmental Groups Protest New England Governors' Plan to Invest Billions in Natural Gas

Week Ending May 1, 2015

Sarah Jaffe: Low-Wage Workers Organize Largest Nationwide Protest to Push for $15 Minimum Wage
Wilma Subra: On Fifth Anniversary of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Not All Is Well in the Gulf
Isaiah Poole: 'Populism 2015' Conference Crafts Progressive Agenda to Influence 2016 Presidential Election Debate

April

Week Ending April 24, 2015

Matthew Fogg: Culture of Impunity a Toxic Element Contributing to Police Violence
Chelsea Watson, Maya Jenkins and Phoebe Chatfield: Yale Climate Activists Launch Direct Action Protests to Press for Fossil Fuel Divestment
Matthew Gardner: Deep Tax Cuts for Corporations and the Rich Create Unfair Tax System for Poor and Working Families

Week Ending April 17, 2015

Paul Kawika Martin: GOP and Iranian Hardliners Aim to Kill International Iran Nuclear Deal
Steve Berg: Programs to Eliminate Homelessness Within Reach, But Require Funding
Aquene Freechild: Citizen Groups Urge President to Issue Executive Order Mandating Federal Contractors Disclose Political Spending

Week Ending April 10, 2015

Patrick Woodall: Leaked Secret TPP Chapter Reveals Corporate Rights that Undermine Democracy
Cassady Sharp: Broad Coalition of Environmental Groups Working to Stop Oil Drilling in the Arctic
George Woodliff-Stanley and Sarah Dobbs: Swarthmore Students' Fossil Fuel Divestment Sit-In Inspires Climate Activists Nationwide

Week Ending April 3, 2015

Josh Ruebner: Israel's Election Outcome Confirms Death of 2-State Solution, Demands New U.S. Middle East Policy
Lindsay Koshgarian: Republicans and White House Push for Major Increases in Military Spending in 2016 Budget
Dave Johnson: The Congressional Progressive Caucus' 'People's Budget' Takes on the Issue of Income Inequality

March

Week Ending March 27, 2015

Jim Lobe: Neocon Campaign to Derail Iran Nuclear Talks Increases Likelihood of War
Lizz Brown: Department of Justice Report on Pervasive Racism in Ferguson Police and Courts Provokes Calls for Accountability
Donald Cohen: Privatizing Prisons: A Bad Deal for Inmates and Society

Week Ending March 20, 2015

Khalilah L. Brown-Dean: 50 Years After Selma March, New Report Finds Party Politics Increasingly Polarized by Race
Micah Uetricht: Chicago's Progressive Movement Rallies to Defeat Mayor Rahm Emanuel's Re-Election
Anja Rudiger: Despite Setbacks, Vermont Grassroots Campaign Pushes for First-in-Nation Single Payer Health Care System

Week Ending March 13, 2015

Robert Naiman: Netanyahu To U.S. Congress: Choose War with Iran Over Negotiations
Charles Chandler: Activist Walks Hundreds of Miles and Risks Arrest to Focus Attention on Climate Change
Craig Aaron: After Winning Historic Victory, Net Neutrality Activists Must Defend Against Coming Industry Attacks

Week Ending March 6, 2015

Mark Weisbrot: Greek Syriza Party Makes Progress Challenging Austerity Policies in Four-Month Eurozone Bailout Extension
Phyllis Bennis: What's Behind the Warped Theology and Origin of ISIS Terrorists?
Margaret Flowers: Opponents Mobilize to Stop Fast Track and TransPacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement

February

Week Ending Feb. 27, 2015

Matthew Hoh: The Failure of Military Interventions Haunts President’s Push for New Congressional War Authorization
Samuel Fey: Study Finds Accelerating Rate of Species Mass Die-Offs Around the Globe
James S. Henry: Leaked Documents Reveal HSBC Bank's Dirty Dealings with Tax Dodgers, Drug Traffickers and Arms Dealers

Week Ending Feb. 20, 2015

Lev Golinkin: In Escalating U.S.-Russian Proxy War, Eastern Ukraine Humanitarian Crisis Ignored
Carling Sothoron: Opposing Cove Point Maryland LNG Terminal, Activists Launch Civil Disobedience Actions
Michael Copps: As FCC Readies New Net Neutrality Rules, Telecom Giants Plan Legal and Legislative Offensive

Week Ending Feb. 13, 2015

Mel Goodman: Netanyahu's Arrogant Obstruction Signals Need to Change U.S.-Israeli Relations
Ali Al-Ahmed: Obama and West Remain Silent on Saudi Arabia’s Dismal Human Rights Record
Mark Price: New Report Documents 'The Increasingly Unequal States of America'

Week Ending Feb. 6, 2015

Richard Wolff: Leftist Syriza Party Victory in Greece Strengthens Anti-Austerity Movement Across Europe
Penni Lechne and Maya van Rossum: Fracking Opponents Make Their Voices Heard at Pennsylvania Governor’s Inauguration
Kennette Benedict: Unchecked Climate Change and Nuclear Weapons Modernization Moves 'Doomsday Clock' Two Minutes Closer to Midnight

January

Week Ending Jan. 30, 2015

Coleen Rowley: FBI 9/11 Whistle-blower Coleen Rowley: Post-Charlie Hebdo Massacre Rush to Expand Warrantless Surveillance Counterproductive
Mike Leyba: Minority Communities Excluded, Marginalized from U.S. Banking System
John Pawelek: Remembering the 1965 Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights March

Week Ending Jan. 23, 2015

Marcy Wheeler: Freedom of the Press a Key Issue in Trial of Former CIA Officer Jeffrey Sterling
Richard Heinberg: Declining Global Demand Triggers Dramatic Oil Price Drop
Alisa Simmons: Opponents Campaign to Defeat Fast Track Trade Authority and Trans-Pacific Partnership

Week Ending Jan. 16, 2015

Ellen Brown: G-20 Pushes New Banking Rule That Could Confiscate Deposits and Pensions in Future Financial Crisis
Chris Espinosa: Congressional Budget Rider Allows Continued Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining, Toxic Waste Dumping
Paul Gunter: Opting Not to Order Safety Improvements to U.S. Nuclear Plants, NRC Ignores Lessons of Fukushima

Week Ending Jan. 9, 2015

Steve Schnapp: Government Policy Produces Record Levels of Economic Inequality in U.S.
Osprey Orielle: Activists at Lima UN Climate Talks Advocate for Gender Equality
Dave Johnson: Upsurge in Activism was Good News for Progressives in 2014

Week Ending Jan. 2, 2015

Peter Kornbluh: After 55 Years, Obama Acknowledges U.S. Cuba Policy Was a Failure
Sandra Steingraber: New York Becomes the First State in Nation to Ban Fracking
Paul Engler: New Movement Confronting Police Violence Could Expand to Address Economic Inequality

December

Week Ending Dec. 26, 2014

Michael Ratner: U.S. Defies UN Treaty Obligation to Prosecute Officials Who Authorized and Carried Out CIA Torture
Isaiah Poole: Wall Street "Owns" Congress as Both Parties Vote to Reinstate Taxpayer-Funded Bank Bailouts
Energy Activists: Launch 'Week of Respect and Resistance' Protests in Opposition to Expansion of Fracked Natural Gas Pipeline

Week Ending Dec. 19, 2014

Glen Ford: Coast to Coast Explosion of Protest Confronts Police Violence in Communities of Color
Matthew Hoh: President Obama Reverses Course on Ending America's Longest War in Afghanistan
Mark Colville: Anti-Drone Peace Activist Avoids Jail Time for Protest, Asks that Focus Remains on Drone Victims

Week Ending Dec. 12, 2014

Tory Russell: Injustice Seen in Ferguson is Rallying Cry for Movement Confronting Police Violence Across U.S.
Philip Weiss: With Two-State Solution Dead, Will Palestinians Launch a Third Intifada?
Bobby King: Sand Mined for Fracking Wells in Midwest Generates Environmental and Health Concerns

Week Ending Dec. 5, 2014

Rev. Peter Morales: Ferguson Streets Explode in Anger After Grand Jury Opts Not to Indict Darren Wilson
Daniel Altschuler: Obama Immigration Executive Order Provokes GOP Rage, Inspires Activists to Agitate for Comprehensive Reform
Amanda Allen: After Midterm Election Defeats, Pro-Choice Activists Brace for Renewed Efforts to Further Erode Access to Abortion

November

Week Ending Nov. 28, 2014

Karen Orenstein: New U.S. -China Carbon Targets Fall Short of Reductions Needed to Avert Climate Change Disaster
James Gustave "Gus" Speth: Failed Politics, Runaway Consumerism is Root Cause of Environmental Decline
Craig Aaron: Six Years After 2008 Campaign Pledge, President Obama Pushes for Net Neutrality

Week Ending Nov. 21, 2014

Sam Pizzigati: Why Candidates of Both Parties Avoided Debate on Rising Economic Inequality in 2014 Campaign
Karthik Ganapathy: Climate Change Activist Groups Gear Up to Fight New GOP Senate Majority Push to Build Keystone XL Pipeline
Sean Glenn: Young Activist Explains Her Deep Commitment to Reverse Climate Change

Week Ending Nov. 14, 2014

Greg Palast: Investigation Reveals New GOP Tactic to Purge Millions of Minority Voters in 28 States
Katherine Culliton-Gonzalez: Voter Suppression Laws Field Tested in 2014 Election, May Have Determined Outcome in Several Races
Sam Jewler: Covert Corporate Cash Funneled Through U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Tops List of Dark Money Donors in 2014 Congressional Campaigns

Week Ending Nov. 7, 2014

Beau Grosscup: Recent Attacks Targeting Canadian Soldiers Offer Politicians Rationale to Boost Security Policies and Erode Civil Liberties
Kathy Roberts: Obama White House Considers Adopting Bush Era Policy Allowing Torture Overseas
Ralph Nader: Ralph Nader: No Legal or Ethical Framework Regulates Earth-Shaking Technologies

October

Week Ending Oct. 31, 2014

Leigh Phillips: Private Profit Trumps Public Health in Research for Ebola Vaccine
Vernon Haltom: New Study Links Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Dust to Lung Cancer
Peter Kornbluh: New Book Chronicles 50 Years of Covert U.S-Cuba Relations and Current Opportunity for Normalization

Week Ending Oct. 24, 2014

Kevin Alexander Gray: 'Ferguson October' Civil Disobedience Protests Target Police Violence in Communities of Color Nationwide
Josh Rovner: Report on Abuse of Adolescent Inmates in New York Draws Attention to Juvenile Justice System Crisis
Norman Solomon: U.S. Government's Prosecution of Investigative Reporter James Risen Threatens Freedom of the Press