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.
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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 Sept. 14, 2016 for week ending Sept. 23, 2016
"So, President Obama is pushing very hard (to pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership) and sees the only opportunity in the very unaccountable period after the election – but before the next Congress starts – so the recently fired or retired members of Congress come back and they have one more chance to vote when they're not accountable to the voters."
– Melinda St. Louis, international campaigns director with Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, on why the lame duck session is a "dangerous period", a window that the pro-TPP forces and big corporations see as an opportunity
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Interview with Melinda St. Louis, international campaigns director with Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, conducted by Scott Harris
After the full text of the proposed 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal was released by the Obama administration in November, a broad coalition of opponents including labor, environmental and consumer groups asserted that the actual provisions in the pact were worse than originally feared. They cited an extension of intellectual property rights in the pact that will increase the cost and reduce access to critical life-saving drugs; the off-shoring of thousands of U.S. manufacturing jobs to cheaper labor markets; and the flooding of the U.S. market with unsafe and unlabeled imported food.
Story continues
Interview with Rahna Epting, chief of staff with the group Every Voice, conducted by Scott Harris
More than 30 democracy reform groups across the U.S. are calling on the moderator in the first presidential candidate debate, on Sept. 26, NBC’s Lester Holt, to require Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump to talk about how they plan to make our democracy work for all Americans.
Story continues
Interview with Paul Winter, musician and activist, conducted by Melinda Tuhus
Injustices against native Americans are the focus of attention today, with the ongoing protest against the Dakota Access pipeline at the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota. And, a decades-old travesty of justice is in the news again, as activists are working to convince President Obama to grant executive clemency to the American Indian Movement's long time political prisoner Leonard Peltier, who has been incarcerated for the past 41 years.
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This week’s summary of under-reported news
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Compiled by Bob Nixon
- A year after Germany opened its doors to hundreds of thousands of refugees from war torn Syria, Iraq and other nations, German Chancellor Angela Merkel suffered an embarrassing defeat in her home district.(
"Angela Merkel's Party Beaten by Rightwing Populists in German Elections," The Guardian, Sept. 6, 2016 ;
"What Does Alternative for Germany (AFD) Want?" BBC, Sept. 5, 2016)
- Across Asia, so called, “special economic zones” have fueled export growth and foreign investment in poor nations. But workers are heavily exploited in these zones and blocked from organizing unions. The International Labor Organization has called these zones “a symptom of the race to the bottom in the global economy.”("Inside the Corporate Utopias Where Capitalism Rules and Labor Laws Don't Apply," In These Times, July 25, 2016)
- In the historic U.S. Supreme Court decision, Gideon vs. Wainwright, the high court enshrined the constitutional right of indigent defendants to receive legal counsel. However fifty three years after the ruling, the Guardian newspaper reports the rights of indigent defendants is under increasing threat as incarceration rates have risen over 400 percent and up to 90 percent of those awaiting adjudication are mired in poverty.("The Human Toll of America's Public Defender Crisis," The Guardian, Sept. 7, 2016)
Recent Shows
September
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Laura Carlsen: Mexicans Contemptuous of Trump and Their President After Embarrassing Meeting
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Cody Hall: Indigenous Nations Resist Construction of North Dakota Access Oil Pipeline
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James S. Henry: EU Imposes $14.5 Billion Tax on Apple After Tax Avoidance Scheme Uncovered
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Michael Beer: Turkey Invades Northern Syria and Attacks U.S.-Backed Kurdish Rebels
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Chip Berlet: Alt-Right Racists Leading Trump Campaign Enter Upper Echelon of Mainstream U.S. Politics
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Chad Cordell: After Long Campaign, West Virginia DEP Shuts Down Mountaintop Removal Mine Near State Forest
August
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Robert Parry: Ahead in the Polls, Hillary Clinton Embraces GOP Neocon War Hawks
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Michael Hendryx: West Virginia Asks for Health Study to Determine Health Impact of Mountaintop Coal Mining
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Brian Tashman: Trump and Rubio's Attendance at Anti-LGBTQ Extremist Event Sends Message of Intolerance
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Paul Kawika Martin: U.S. Poised to Build New Generation of Nuclear Weapons As World Marks 71 Years Since Atomic Bombing of Japan
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Bob Zellner: Moral Revolution of Values Tour Carries on Civil and Human Rights Struggle
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Kristen Breitweiser: 9/11 Widow Demands Investigation and Accountability for Alleged Saudi Link to Sept. 11 Attack
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Chuck Collins: Inequality a Major Issue in U.S. Presidential Election Campaign, First Time in Decades
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Mark Weisbrot: U.S. Legislators Question Integrity of Brazil's Impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff
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Claire Miller: Environmental Groups Call for Halt to New England Natural Gas Energy Conversion
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Jeff Cohen: Sanders Supporters Disaffected Over Clinton's Choice of Sen. Tim Kaine as Running Mate
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Frederick Clarkson: Christian Right Still Setting the Culture War Agenda for Republicans
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Anne Rolfes: Grassroots Campaign Launched to End New Oil and Gas Drilling Leases in Gulf of Mexico
July
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Ben Beachy: Leaked Documents Reveal TTIP Free Trade Agreement Would Undermine Climate, Environment, Consumer Protections
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Pilar Schiavo: Bernie Sanders and Supporters Push Democratic Party to Adopt Medicare-for-All in Party Platform
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Craig Aaron: Federal Appeals Court Upholds FCC's Net Neutrality Rules, Protecting Open Internet
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Graylan Hagler: After Week's Tragic Violence, Americans Remain Divided on Issues of Police Accountability and Race
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David Swanson: Britain's Chilcot Report on Iraq War Deceptions Highlights Lack of Accountability in U.K. and U.S.
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Katelyn Parady: Campaign Launched to Incorporate Climate Justice Mandates in the New England Cap and Trade Program
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Scott Swenson: Does Supreme Court's Overturning Former Virginia Gov. McDonnell Graft Conviction Decriminalize Corruption?
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Joshua Pribanic: Probe Sought Into Government Suppression of Link Between Water Contamination and Fracking
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Andrew Hanauer: Flawed Oversight Board Formed to Address Puerto Rico's Debt Crisis Defended as Only Alternative
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Nina Eichacker: EU Austerity Policies and Dim Economic Prospects Provoked UK's Brexit Vote
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Mario A. Murillo: Colombia and FARC Guerrillas Reach Agreement on Bilateral Cease-Fire
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Joe Foran: Deadlocked Supreme Court Effectively Kills Obama Deportation Deferral Program
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Ladd Everitt: After Orlando, Congress Once Again Fails to Pass Measures to Reduce Gun Violence
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Sarah Warbelow: Orlando Massacre the Latest in Hate Crimes Epidemic Targeting America's LGBTQ Community
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Dixon Osburn: U.S. Civil Case Pursues Justice in 1973 Murder of Chilean Singer Victor Jara
June
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Stacey Hopkins: Sanders Campaign Offshoot, "Brand New Congress," Continues Political Revolution
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Rachel Curley: #WeThePeople Democracy Reform Bills Target Big Money in U.S. Politics
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Art Tanderup: Bold Nebraska Activists Share Tactics Which Helped Defeat Keystone XL Pipeline
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Mark Weisbrot: Latin American Left Suffers Political, Economic Setbacks, But Remains a Potent Force
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Robert Howarth: Rising Levels of Methane Feed Menace of Climate Change
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Irene Aguilar: Colorado Voters Could Enact Nation's First Single-Payer Health Care System this November
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Philip Weiss: Israel's Appointment of Extremist Defense Minister Triggers Alarm Around the World
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Kim Fraczek: Winning Campaign by New York Anti-Pipeline Activists Could Serve as a Model Across the U.S.
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Charles Lenchner: What's Next for the Movement Behind Bernie Sanders?
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Paul Kawika Martin: As Obama Makes Historic Visit to Hiroshima, Scholars Urge Action to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
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Becky Meier: Activists Defeat Gas Pipeline Projects, Work to Recruit NIMBY Neighbors to Climate Fight
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Tariq Ali: Growing Worldwide Movement Resists Rising Economic Inequality and Austerity
May
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Maria Luisa Mendonca: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff Suspended as Corrupt Conservative Parties Win Impeachment Vote
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Panagioti Tsolkas: Prison Ecology Project Joins the Issues of Environmental Justice and Prisoner Rights
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Ralph Nader: Ralph Nader Sponsors Four Days of Civic Mobilization at "Breaking Through Power Conference"
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Ian Haney López: Is Trump's Blatant Racism an Opportunity to Build Class Solidarity?
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Maxine McCleary: Philadelphia Residents Protest Proposed Expansion of Fossil Fuel Refinery in Poor Neighborhood
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Alberto Saldamando: With Rising Human Rights Violations in Honduras, Activists Demand Suspension of U.S. Military Aid
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Adam Gitlin: New Voter Suppression Laws in 17 States Will Have Major Impact on 2016 Election
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Mohamad Hafez: Syrian-born Architect Responds to His Nation's Bloody War Through Art
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Jesse Myerson: Sanders Supporters Initiate Discussions to Transform Campaign into Progressive Movement
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Sheila Carapico: Questions on 9/11 and Dismal Human Rights Record Cast Shadow on U.S.-Saudi Relationship
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James Hansen: Climate Scientist Promotes Carbon Fee and Dividend System to Reduce Burning of Fossil Fuels
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Antonia Juhasz: Six Years After BP Oil Spill Disaster, Public Opinion Turns Against Dangerous Deep Water Oil Drilling
April
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Carl Takei: ACLU Sues for Bureau of Prisons Documents on Approval of CIA Torture Site
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Arabelle Schoenberg: In a Symbolic Step, Yale Partially Divests from Fossil Fuels
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Sonali Kolhatkar: French 'Stay Up All Night' Movement Gathers Momentum to Challenge Economic Status Quo
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James S. Henry: Panama Papers Reveal How the World's Rich and Powerful Hide Their Wealth
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James Hansen: Climate Change is Worse Than You Thought
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Margrete Strand Rangnes: Democracy Awakening Actions Demand Reforms to Rein in Big Money's Influence in U.S. Politics
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Ted Snider: Brazilian Corruption Crisis or Attempted Coup d'etat?
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Tyson Slocum: Community Solar Programs Can Deliver Cheap Renewable Energy to All Income Groups
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Harvey Wasserman: With Voter Suppression and Unverifiable Electronic Voting, 2016 Election Results Vulnerable to Theft
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Mel Goodman: GOP Candidates Trump, Cruz Follow ISIS Script By Stoking Hate and Fear Against Muslims
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Mary Grant: Lead Poisoning Crisis in Flint Provokes Call for Federal Investment in Nation’s Public Water Infrastructure
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Peter Kornbluh: After Thaw in U.S. Relations, Cubans Pursue Slow but Steady Pace of Change
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John Nichols: Ratings and Profit 'Trump' Journalism, As Big Media Gives 'The Donald' Billions in Free Airtime
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Christopher Vials: Scholar: 'Donald Trump is Part of the Dark U.S. Fascist Tradition'
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Josh Fox: New Documentary Film on Climate Change Supports Communities Combatting Fossil Fuel Expansion
March
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Melinda St. Louis: Primary Election Results Reflect Opposition to Free Trade, Challenging Elite Bipartisan Consensus
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Robert Pollin: Study Finds Green Economy Produces Three Times More Jobs Than Fossil Fuel Industry
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Tim Judson: Five Years Later Nuclear Crisis at Fukushima Continues
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Dana Frank: Indigenous Activist Berta Cáceres Slain Amid Honduras' Rising Political Violence
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Gretchen Borchelt: Reproductive Rights Advocates Hopeful Supreme Court Will Overturn Restrictive Texas Abortion Law
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Michael Winston: 'Bank Whistleblowers United' Challenge Presidential Candidates to Reject Dirty Wall Street Money
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Mark Potok: Trump Closes in on Winning GOP Nomination with Racist Rhetoric
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Jennifer G. Loewenstein: Proxy Fighters and Religious Conflict Present Major Obstacles to Ending Syria’s Civil War
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Lula White: Freedom Rider Honored for her role in the Civil Rights Struggle
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Joseph Lorenzo Hall: FBI vs. Apple: What's at Stake in Encryption Fight
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Ron Allen: Battle to Protect Indigenous Rights 'Is Not on the Rez, It’s Outside the Rez'
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Kai Newkirk: Mass Civil Disobedience Planned for U.S. Capitol in April to Protest Big Money in Politics
February
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Ari Paul: Battle to Replace Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Looms as Major Election Issue
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Megan Holleran: Direct Action in Pennsylvania Blocks Destruction of Maple Trees for Proposed Gas Pipeline
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Paul Kawika Martin: U.S.-Russia Weapons Build-up Signals Dangerous New Cold War
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Jessa Boehner: Broad Coalition Campaigns to Prevent U.S. Approval of Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement
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Stephen Zunes: Iraq War Vote Shadows Clinton Candidacy
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Carey Shenkman: UN Panel Says WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Being Arbitrarily Detained
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George Lakey: Bernie Sanders Supporters Should Have a Plan B: Build a Movement
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David McGuire: Connecticut Moves to Reform Cash Bail System for Low-level Defendants
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Kieran Suckling: Courageous Public Land Advocates Confronted Armed Militia Group That Took Over Oregon Wildlife Refuge
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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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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