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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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 Feb. 3, 2016 for week ending Feb. 12, 2016
"So I think it's very reasonable for people who are working for Bernie to ask, 'What's the Plan B? What do we do if he loses?' It's not a threatening question to me. It's simply a good, solid, American pragmatic question, because there needs to be a Plan B."
– George Lakey, activist and author, considers the options for Bernie Sanders supporters if their candidate doesn't win the Democratic party nomination
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Interview with George Lakey, author, activist and co-founder of Earth Quaker Action Group, conducted by Scott Harris
After months of daily polling, endless live TV coverage of Donald Trump rallies and commentators holding forth on the top candidates' every word, Iowans cast ballots in the state's caucuses on Feb. 1, the nation's first real test of voter sentiment. While Ted Cruz defied polls to win the Republican caucuses, beating Trump by less than 4 percentage points, the candidates in the Democratic race fought the election out to a virtual tie. After almost an entire day waiting for a final tally, Hillary Clinton emerged the victor by the narrowest of margins, beating independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont by less than four Iowa delegates out of a total of slightly more than 1,397.
Story continues
excerpt of speech by David McGuire, legislative and policy director of the ACLU of Connecticut, speaking at Yale Law School "Pay or Stay" forum, recorded and produced by Melinda Tuhus
On Jan. 27, the Connecticut chapter of the ACLU held a forum at Yale Law School, titled, "Pay or Stay," a reference to Connecticut's system of cash bail that, if a defendant can't pay it, requires that person to stay in jail while awaiting a resolution to their case. That resolution, in almost all cases, is a plea deal rather than a trial, and data reveals that defendants who are held in jail have worse outcomes than those who are free on bond or released on their own recognizance.
Story continues
Interview with Kieran Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity, conducted by Scott Harris
In early January, dozens of men and woman – part of an armed militia group – took over the headquarters buildings of the federal Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon. Among this group were Ammon and Ryan Bundy, sons of Nevada ranger Cliven Bundy, who recruited members of armed militia groups from around the country to defy the federal law enforcement officers attempting to collect unpaid cattle grazing fees in 2014.
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This week’s summary of under-reported news
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Compiled by Bob Nixon
- A confidential United Nations report declares South Sudan President Salva Kiir and rebel commander Riek Machar are personally responsible for serious human rights abuses during a two year civil war in the oil rich East African nation.
("U.N. Panel Calls for Sanctions on South Sudan’s Warring Leaders," Foreign Policy, Jan. 25, 2016;
"Exclusive: South Sudan needs arms embargo; leaders killing civilians - U.N. panel," Reuters, Jan. 26, 2016)
- In early November, climate change activists celebrated as President Obama formally rejected the Keystone XL pipeline. At the same time, another Canadian pipeline known as the "Alberta Clipper" was already transporting 800,000 barrels a day of tar sands crude to US refineries, the same volume of dirty crude oil as proposed by the Keystone pipeline.
("The other Keystone: the Alberta Clipper, the pipeline no one is talking about," Jan. 14, 2016)
- Three years after being convicted for second degree murder, New York inmate Luis Paulino, in 2000 sent a freedom of information request to Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson seeking information about the crime scene, witnesses and forensic reports. Paulino was seeking the information in order to prove his innocence.
("Inmates Want Files to Prove Innocence. DA Can't Find Them." City Limits, Jan. 21, 2016)
Recent Shows
February
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Jake Johnston: 'Utter Contempt for Will of the Haitian People,' Provokes Cancellation of Presidential Election
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Alex Felson: With the Climate Crisis Already Here, States Work to Adapt
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David Holtz: Abusive Government and Environmental Racism at Heart of Flint Water Crisis
January
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Robert Zarr: Sanders: Single-Payer is Only System that Can Achieve Universal Health Care
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Hattie Nestel: Massachusetts Activists Mark MLK Holiday with 3-Day Walk Against Planned NED Fracked Gas Pipeline
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Michelle Higgins: Protest Actions Nationwide Strive to Reclaim Martin Luther King's Radical Legacy
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Marcus Stanley: Breaking Up America's Big Banks is Key to Averting Future Financial Crises
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Swapna Reddy: Advocacy Groups Challenge Latest ICE Immigrant Deportations
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Jeremy Varon: Protest Demanding Shutdown of U.S. Guantanamo Prison Marks 14 Years Since Camp Opened
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Caroline Fredrickson: Case Before U.S. Supreme Court Could Cripple Public Sector Labor Unions
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Marc Mauer: New York Issues Conditional Pardon to Thousands of Youthful Offenders
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Kim Ives: Amid Widespread Charges of Fraud, Haiti Cancels 2nd Round Presidential Election
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Mongi Dhaouadi: With Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes on the Rise in U.S., Islamic Groups Enhance Security, Community Engagement
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Mike Lawlor: Connecticut's Juvenile Justice Reforms Eyed as National Model
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Les Leopold: New Book Explains Why U.S. Has Worst Income Inequality Among Developed Nations
December
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David Pomerantz: Paris Summit's Carbon Reduction Agreement Not Enough to Stave Off Climate Catastrophe
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Leticia Colon de Mejias: Climate Activist Urges Energy Conservation Over New Natural Gas Infrastructure
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Garbriel Hetland: Hugo Chavez's Socialist Party Loses Election and Control of Legislature Amid Venezuelan Economic Crisis
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Ladd Everitt: San Bernardino and Colorado Springs Mass Shootings Provoke Renewed Gun Control Debate
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Heather Doyle: Climate Activists Challenge Abuse During Maryland Civil Disobedience Arrest
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Patty Lovera: Consumers and Fishing Industry Oppose FDA Approval of Genetically Modified Salmon
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John Coequyt: If Paris Climate Summit is a Turning Point, Governments Must Go Beyond Current Carbon Reduction Pledges
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Julia Olson: In Children's Climate Change Lawsuit, Judge Affirms States' Obligation to Protect Future Generations
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Miranda Blue: Toxic Rhetoric Feeds Violent Attacks on Planned Parenthood Clinics
November
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Vijay Prashad: ISIS Terrorist Attacks Designed to Hasten the "Apocalypse" and Instill Fear
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Jacqueline Patterson: With Pressure, U.S. Climate Movement is Becoming More Inclusive of Communities of Color
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Mat dos Santos: Oregon's Department of Justice Spied on State Residents Who Used #BlackLivesMatter on Twitter
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Jessa Boehner: Full Text of Trans-Pacific Partnership Reveals Free Trade Agreement That Promotes Corporate Rights Over Citizens' Rights
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Tim DeChristopher: The Danger of False Optimism in the Difficult Struggle Ahead Combatting Climate Change
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Kalin Jordan: Activist Group Exposes and Challenges Koch Brothers Funding of Colleges and Universities Nationwide
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Charles Glass: New U.S. Ground Troops in Syrian Conflict Likely to Intensify Multi-sided Proxy War
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Randi Spivak: 'Keep It in the Ground Campaign' Calls on Obama to Halt Public Land Leasing for Fossil Fuel Extraction
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Richard D. Wolff: Bernie Sanders' Democratic Socialism an Opportunity to Critique the Excesses of Capitalism
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Andrew Cockburn: New Documents Reveal U.S. Drone Program's Deadly Flaws
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Mary Grant: Privatization of Public Water Resources Jeopardizes the Affordability and Quality of Water Supplies
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John H. Cushman Jr.: Investigative Report Finds Exxon Knew Climate Change was Real, But Funded Deniers to Sow Confusion
October
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Maya Katz and Sulaiman Khatib: Former Israeli & Palestinian Combatants Tour U.S. Promoting Peaceful Settlement of Decades-Long Conflict
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Jessa Boehner: Coalition Campaigns to Defeat Transpacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement in Congress
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Matthew Gardner: American Corporations Shelter $2.1 Trillion in Offshore Profits, Withholding $620 Billion in U.S. Tax Revenue
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Miko Peled: Israeli War Hero's Son Challenges His Nation's Policies Toward Palestinians
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Chuck Collins: Transition Movement Seeks to Build Community Resilience Amid Energy, Climate Change and Economic Crises
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Frances Moore Lappé: New Mindset Needed to Effectively Protect Earth's Ecosystem
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Chris Toensing: Assessing the Consequences of Russian Intervention in Syria’s Civil War
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Marla Marcum: Climate Disobedience Center Provides Support to Activists Engaged in Direct Action
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Miranda Blue: Report Links Operation Rescue and Group that Released Videos to Discredit Planned Parenthood
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May Boeve: Activists Hoping the Pope's Climate Change Message Will Spur Action at UN Paris Summit
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Gaboury Benoit: Concern Grows Over Health Hazards Linked with Recycled Tires Used in Playgrounds and Athletic Fields
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Ralph Nader: New Tort Museum Celebrates Victories of Law Over Corporate Power
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Chip Berlet: Support for Trump and Racism is Mainstream in Today's Republican Party
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Jimmy Betts and Ellen Barfield: Climate Activists Fast to Protest Natural Gas Projects that Exacerbate Climate Change
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Rena Steinzor: Critics Condemn Department of Justice's Deferred Prosecution of GM for Deadly Auto Defect
September
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Phyllis Bennis: International Nuclear Agreement with Iran a Victory for Diplomacy Over War
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Osprey Orielle Lake: Women Disproportionately Affected by Climate Change Offer Unique Solutions to Address Climate Crisis
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Allan Nairn: Guatemalan President Resigns Amid Corruption Charges, Implicated in Mass Murder
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Arun Gupta: Union-Backed 'Fight For $15' Campaign Marginalizes Larger Struggle for Worker Power
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Scott Semple: Connecticut Moves Toward a More Humane Approach to Prison Management
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Eve Spangler: Abiding by Human Rights Framework an Unexplored Path to Resolving Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
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Ben Norton: Aided by Flawed Journalism, Iran Nuclear Deal Opponents Spread Disinformation
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Jitu Brown: Parents, Teachers and Activists Engage in Hunger Strike to Save Dyett High School in Chicago
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Norman Solomon: Activists Petition Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders to Declare His Foreign Policy Platform
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Mark Klein: AT&T's Unique Relationship with NSA Comes Under Scrutiny After Release of Snowden Documents
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Jordon Flaherty: Many Poor and Black Residents Driven Out of New Orleans by Post-Katrina Recovery Policies
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Carmen Watkins: 'Journey for Justice' March from Selma to Washington Mobilizes Activists Across Five Southern States
August
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Matthew Hoh: As Military Situation in Afghanistan Deteriorates, U.S. Could be Drawn Back into Endless War
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Cynthia Sartou: New Orleans Still Faces Enormous Challenges 10 Years After Katrina, 5 Years After the BP Oil Disaster
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Eric Kingson: Social Security Disability Fund Shortfall Solution Becomes New GOP Hostage in Congressional Debate
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Patty Lovera: House Passes Bill That Would Ban State Laws Mandating Labeling of GMO Foods
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Jaydee Hanson: EPA Sued for its Conditional Approval of Nanotechnology Pesticide
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Anthony Campbell: Psychological Health of Police Officers a Critical Factor in Ethical Law Enforcement
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Daphne Wysham: Opposition to Arctic Oil Drilling Provokes Civil Disobedience Actions Targeting Shell Icebreaker in Portland
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Anne Kelly: President’s Clean Power Plan Attracts Business Support
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Vijay Das: On Medicare's 50th Anniversary, Bills in Congress Would Expand Medicare to All Citizens
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Paul Kawika Martin: Will Congressional Rejection of the Iran Nuclear Agreement Lead to War?
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Ralph Nader: Ralph Nader Assesses Opportunities for Building Progressive Movement in 2016 Presidential Campaign
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Luz Catarineau and Mark Colville: New Haven’s Amistad Catholic Worker House Celebrates 20 Years of Social Justice Activism
July
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Jamal Abdi: U.S. Peace Movement Must Mobilize to Prevent Congress from Killing the Iran Nuclear Accord
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Stephen F. Cohen: U.S., Russian Military Escalation in Ukraine Could Lead to Dangerous Unintended Consequences
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Wendsler Nosie: Apache Tribal Activists Fight to Reverse Land Grab of Sacred Arizona Site
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Mark Weisbrot: Tentative EU-Greece Bailout Deal Inflicts More Painful Austerity, But Will Fail Without Debt Relief
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Dustin White: Supreme Court Ruling Against EPA in Mercury Pollution Case Not a Victory for Coal Industry
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Mark Potok: Congress Needs to Investigate Threat of Domestic Terrorism Posed by White Supremacist Hate Groups
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James S. Henry: Greeks Say No to More EU Austerity, Yes to Dignity
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Raleigh Hoke: Despite $18.7 Billion BP Gulf Oil Spill Settlement, Concerns Remain How Money will be Spent
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Wayne Smith: Former U.S. Diplomat Celebrates Normalization of U.S.-Cuba Relations
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John Mearsheimer: U.S. Deployment of Heavy Military Equipment to the Baltics and Eastern Europe Escalates Tension with Russia
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Rabbi Mordechai Liebling: The Pope’s Climate Change Encyclical Inspires Action Among Religious Communities
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Nick Nyhart: As Congress Blocks Restoration of Voting Rights Act, GOP-Governed States Continue to Enact Voter Suppression Laws
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Graylan Hagler: Charleston Massacre Provokes Long Overdue National Debate Confronting Racist Ideology
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Gretchen Borchelt: Current Legal Battle to Keep Texas Abortion Clinics Open Could Effect Change Across the U.S.
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Jim Dean: Progressive PAC Threatens "Free Trade Democrats" with Primary Challenges
June
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Sue Udry: Civil Liberties Advocates Say USA Freedom Act Falls Short on Reforming NSA Dragnet Surveillance
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Susan Rubin: Opponents Rally to Stop Expansion of Gas Pipeline Near Troubled Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant
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Jennifer Clark: GOP Voter Suppression Laws Challenged Ahead of 2016 Presidential Election