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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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 Nov. 9, 2016 for week ending Nov. 18, 2016

"Washington is really controlled by people who want this Cold War to go on and become bigger. Lots of money is at stake. Trillions of dollars are at stake."

– Robert Parry, author and editor of ConsortiumNews.com, on why spending trillions on the military industrial complex means money's not going to be available for domestic infrastructure, healthcare, education or environmental concerns

Listen to the entire program using these links, or to individual interviews via the links appearing prior to each segment description below.

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[The interviews in this week's program were conducted before the results of the 2016 presidential and congressional elections were known.]

Will Russia's Role in U.S. Election Provoke or Avert New Cold War?

Interview with Robert Parry, author and editor of ConsortiumNews.com, conducted by Scott Harris

[Editor's note: This interview was recorded and produced prior to Election Day.] As the U.S. presidential campaign counted down the final week before Election Day, accusations that Russia was engaged in an effort to manipulate the election results in favor of Donald Trump competed for attention with an 11th hour vaguely worded letter issued by FBI Director James Comey. The letter addressed to Congress stated that investigators would be searching newly found emails linked with Hillary Clinton's aide Huma Abedin found on the laptop computer of her estranged husband, former Congressman Anthony Wiener. A subsequent letter from Comey stated the emails reviewed did not impugn Clinton in any wrongdoing. Story continues

Obamacare Insurance Rate Increases Prompt Renewed Call for Medicare for All

Interview with John P. Geyman, professor emeritus of family medicine, University of Washington and a former president of the group Physicians for a National Health Program, conducted by Scott Harris

One of many October surprises in the 2016 presidential election campaign came in the form of an announcement made by the Department of Health and Human Services on Oct. 24. That announcement forecast that the cost of health insurance under ObamaCare is expected to rise an average of 22 percent in 2017. Story continues

Climate Activists Brace for Post-Election Fight to Rein in Fossil Fuels Expansion

Interview with Anthony Rogers-Wright, policy and organizing director with Environmental Action, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

While there were clear differences on climate issues between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, many climate activists were unhappy with both candidates. For some, Sen. Bernie Sanders was the gold standard on climate policy, calling, among other things, for an end to fracking, and for a halt to the Dakota Access pipeline, which is being built through unceded Sioux territory in North Dakota and viewed as a serious setback to reining in greenhouse gas emissions. Story continues

This week’s summary of under-reported news

Compiled by Bob Nixon

In April, King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands opened the International Criminal Court's new headquarters near The Hague. It was a shining endorsement of the ICC's mission to prosecute war crimes and crimes against humanity.("As 3 African Nations Vow to Exit, International Court Faces Its Own Trial," New York Times, Oct. 26, 2016; "After South Africa's Withdrawal, How Does the Icc Stay Relevant? (+Video)," Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 24, 2016)
For 35 years, Puerto Rican independence activist Oscar Lopez Rivera has sat in federal prison convicted of “seditious conspiracy” for plotting against the United States, while involved in the underground group, the Armed Forces of National Liberation or FALN, which waged violent attacks in the 1970s. ("'I'm No Threat' – Will Obama Pardon One of the World's Longest-Serving Political Prisoners?" The Guardian, Oct. 16, 2016; "Puerto Rico's last political prisoner: Is it time for Oscar López Rivera to walk free?" The Guardian, July 10, 2016)
In early June, a train carrying fracked crude oil from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota derailed and caught fire in rural Oregon. According to the newsmagazine In These Times, the incident united rural activists and the climate justice movement in the Pacific Northwest to prohibit future shipments of crude oil destined for export to Asia.("How Electrifying Railroads Could Help Us Transition from Fossil Fuels and Power Rural Economies," In These Times, Aug. 2, 2016)

Recent Shows

November

Week Ending Nov. 11, 2016

Sue Udry: Civil Liberties Groups Will Push Next President For Stronger Surveillance Reforms
Matt Wood: Proposed AT&T-Time Warner Merger Provokes Broad Opposition
Corey Menafee: Campaign to Change Yale University College Pro-Slavery Namesake Gains Momentum

Week Ending Nov. 4, 2016

Marge Baker: Next President Will Have the Power to Shift Direction of Supreme Court
Brigid Flaherty: Women Rise Up to Protest Trump's Boast of Sexual Assault and GOP's Legacy of Sexism
Roger Salazar: California's Proposition 61 Threatens Drug Company Monopoly Pricing

October

Week Ending Oct. 28, 2016

Mark Ames: Charges of Russian Interference in U.S. Election Adds to Fear of New Cold War
Bill Fletcher Jr.: A Post-Election Strategy for the U.S. Progressive Movement
Arlinda Tray Johns: Formerly Incarcerated Woman Strives to Become an Attorney and Fight for Criminal Justice Reform

Week Ending Oct. 21, 2016

Jennifer Clark: Group Warns Trump's 'Election Observers' Can Lead to Voter Intimidation
Shane Burley: 'Alt-Right' White Supremacists Organizing Support on U.S. College Campuses
Chris Schweitzer: City Promotes Dialogue on Climate Change as Essential Prerequisite to Action

Week Ending Oct. 14, 2016

Chris Knestrick: Colombian Voters Narrowly Reject Peace Agreement to End 52 Years of War
Mary Katherine Nagle: Resistance to Dakota Access Pipeline Part of Larger Struggle to Protect Indigenous Rights
Adele M. Stan: Donors Linked with Koch Brothers Network Funding Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson

Week Ending Oct. 7, 2016

Kennette Benedict: Obama Administration Rejects Adopting Nuclear Weapons No-First Use Pledge
Kevin Alexander Gray: Professional Athletes Stepping Up to Protest Police Violence and Racial Injustice
John Harrity: Machinists Union Adopts Resolution Making the Fight Against Climate Change a Priority

September

Week Ending Sept. 30, 2016

Trevor Timm: U.S. Human Rights Groups Press Obama to Grant Snowden Presidential Pardon
Hugh MacMillan: Report Details Wall Street Banks Financing Controversial Dakota Access Pipeline
Patricia Hynes: U.S. Military Industrial Complex a Major Contributor to Climate Change Crisis

Week Ending Sept. 23, 2016

Melinda St. Louis: Coalition Organizing to Stop Passage of TPP Free Trade Pact in Lame Duck Session of Congress
Rahna Epting: Campaign Launched to Make Democracy Reform Focus of 1st Presidential Debate
Paul Winter: Paul Winter's New Song Supports Movement to Free Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier

Week Ending Sept. 16, 2016

Laura Carlsen: Mexicans Contemptuous of Trump and Their President After Embarrassing Meeting
Cody Hall: Indigenous Nations Resist Construction of North Dakota Access Oil Pipeline
James S. Henry: EU Imposes $14.5 Billion Tax on Apple After Tax Avoidance Scheme Uncovered

Week Ending Sept. 9, 2016

Michael Beer: Turkey Invades Northern Syria and Attacks U.S.-Backed Kurdish Rebels
Chip Berlet: Alt-Right Racists Leading Trump Campaign Enter Upper Echelon of Mainstream U.S. Politics
Chad Cordell: After Long Campaign, West Virginia DEP Shuts Down Mountaintop Removal Mine Near State Forest

Week Ending Sept. 2, 2016

Dr. Steffie Woolhandler: Aetna, Other Insurance Companies Exit Obamacare, Illustrates Need for Medicare For All
Dedrick Asante-Muhammad: America's Growing Racial Wealth Divide Endangers Nation's Future Economic Health
Pamela Roush and Sharry Mullins: After Devastating West Virginia Floods, Neighbors Help Neighbors, but Volunteers Still Needed

August

Week Ending Aug. 26, 2016

Robert Parry: Ahead in the Polls, Hillary Clinton Embraces GOP Neocon War Hawks
Michael Hendryx: West Virginia Asks for Health Study to Determine Health Impact of Mountaintop Coal Mining
Brian Tashman: Trump and Rubio's Attendance at Anti-LGBTQ Extremist Event Sends Message of Intolerance

Week Ending Aug. 19, 2016

Paul Kawika Martin: U.S. Poised to Build New Generation of Nuclear Weapons As World Marks 71 Years Since Atomic Bombing of Japan
Bob Zellner: Moral Revolution of Values Tour Carries on Civil and Human Rights Struggle
Kristen Breitweiser: 9/11 Widow Demands Investigation and Accountability for Alleged Saudi Link to Sept. 11 Attack

Week Ending Aug. 12, 2016

Chuck Collins: Inequality a Major Issue in U.S. Presidential Election Campaign, First Time in Decades
Mark Weisbrot: U.S. Legislators Question Integrity of Brazil's Impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff
Claire Miller: Environmental Groups Call for Halt to New England Natural Gas Energy Conversion

Week Ending Aug. 5, 2016

Jeff Cohen: Sanders Supporters Disaffected Over Clinton's Choice of Sen. Tim Kaine as Running Mate
Frederick Clarkson: Christian Right Still Setting the Culture War Agenda for Republicans
Anne Rolfes: Grassroots Campaign Launched to End New Oil and Gas Drilling Leases in Gulf of Mexico

July

Week Ending July 29, 2016

Ben Beachy: Leaked Documents Reveal TTIP Free Trade Agreement Would Undermine Climate, Environment, Consumer Protections
Pilar Schiavo: Bernie Sanders and Supporters Push Democratic Party to Adopt Medicare-for-All in Party Platform
Craig Aaron: Federal Appeals Court Upholds FCC's Net Neutrality Rules, Protecting Open Internet

Week Ending July 22, 2016

Graylan Hagler: After Week's Tragic Violence, Americans Remain Divided on Issues of Police Accountability and Race
David Swanson: Britain's Chilcot Report on Iraq War Deceptions Highlights Lack of Accountability in U.K. and U.S.
Katelyn Parady: Campaign Launched to Incorporate Climate Justice Mandates in the New England Cap and Trade Program

Week Ending July 15, 2016

Scott Swenson: Does Supreme Court's Overturning Former Virginia Gov. McDonnell Graft Conviction Decriminalize Corruption?
Joshua Pribanic: Probe Sought Into Government Suppression of Link Between Water Contamination and Fracking
Andrew Hanauer: Flawed Oversight Board Formed to Address Puerto Rico's Debt Crisis Defended as Only Alternative

Week Ending July 8, 2016

Nina Eichacker: EU Austerity Policies and Dim Economic Prospects Provoked UK's Brexit Vote
Mario A. Murillo: Colombia and FARC Guerrillas Reach Agreement on Bilateral Cease-Fire
Joe Foran: Deadlocked Supreme Court Effectively Kills Obama Deportation Deferral Program

Week Ending July 1, 2016

Ladd Everitt: After Orlando, Congress Once Again Fails to Pass Measures to Reduce Gun Violence
Sarah Warbelow: Orlando Massacre the Latest in Hate Crimes Epidemic Targeting America's LGBTQ Community
Dixon Osburn: U.S. Civil Case Pursues Justice in 1973 Murder of Chilean Singer Victor Jara

June

Week Ending June 24, 2016

Stacey Hopkins: Sanders Campaign Offshoot, "Brand New Congress," Continues Political Revolution
Rachel Curley: #WeThePeople Democracy Reform Bills Target Big Money in U.S. Politics
Art Tanderup: Bold Nebraska Activists Share Tactics Which Helped Defeat Keystone XL Pipeline

Week Ending June 17, 2016

Mark Weisbrot: Latin American Left Suffers Political, Economic Setbacks, But Remains a Potent Force
Robert Howarth: Rising Levels of Methane Feed Menace of Climate Change
Irene Aguilar: Colorado Voters Could Enact Nation's First Single-Payer Health Care System this November

Week Ending June 10, 2016

Philip Weiss: Israel's Appointment of Extremist Defense Minister Triggers Alarm Around the World
Kim Fraczek: Winning Campaign by New York Anti-Pipeline Activists Could Serve as a Model Across the U.S.
Charles Lenchner: What's Next for the Movement Behind Bernie Sanders?

Week Ending June 3, 2016

Paul Kawika Martin: As Obama Makes Historic Visit to Hiroshima, Scholars Urge Action to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Becky Meier: Activists Defeat Gas Pipeline Projects, Work to Recruit NIMBY Neighbors to Climate Fight
Tariq Ali: Growing Worldwide Movement Resists Rising Economic Inequality and Austerity

May

Week Ending May 27, 2016

Maria Luisa Mendonca: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff Suspended as Corrupt Conservative Parties Win Impeachment Vote
Panagioti Tsolkas: Prison Ecology Project Joins the Issues of Environmental Justice and Prisoner Rights
Ralph Nader: Ralph Nader Sponsors Four Days of Civic Mobilization at "Breaking Through Power Conference"

Week Ending May 20, 2016

Ian Haney López: Is Trump's Blatant Racism an Opportunity to Build Class Solidarity?
Maxine McCleary: Philadelphia Residents Protest Proposed Expansion of Fossil Fuel Refinery in Poor Neighborhood
Alberto Saldamando: With Rising Human Rights Violations in Honduras, Activists Demand Suspension of U.S. Military Aid

Week Ending May 13, 2016

Adam Gitlin: New Voter Suppression Laws in 17 States Will Have Major Impact on 2016 Election
Mohamad Hafez: Syrian-born Architect Responds to His Nation's Bloody War Through Art
Jesse Myerson: Sanders Supporters Initiate Discussions to Transform Campaign into Progressive Movement

Week Ending May 6, 2016

Sheila Carapico: Questions on 9/11 and Dismal Human Rights Record Cast Shadow on U.S.-Saudi Relationship
James Hansen: Climate Scientist Promotes Carbon Fee and Dividend System to Reduce Burning of Fossil Fuels
Antonia Juhasz: Six Years After BP Oil Spill Disaster, Public Opinion Turns Against Dangerous Deep Water Oil Drilling

April

Week Ending April 29, 2016

Carl Takei: ACLU Sues for Bureau of Prisons Documents on Approval of CIA Torture Site
Arabelle Schoenberg: In a Symbolic Step, Yale Partially Divests from Fossil Fuels
Sonali Kolhatkar: French 'Stay Up All Night' Movement Gathers Momentum to Challenge Economic Status Quo

Week Ending April 22, 2016

James S. Henry: Panama Papers Reveal How the World's Rich and Powerful Hide Their Wealth
James Hansen: Climate Change is Worse Than You Thought
Margrete Strand Rangnes: Democracy Awakening Actions Demand Reforms to Rein in Big Money's Influence in U.S. Politics

Week Ending April 15, 2016

Ted Snider: Brazilian Corruption Crisis or Attempted Coup d'etat?
Tyson Slocum: Community Solar Programs Can Deliver Cheap Renewable Energy to All Income Groups
Harvey Wasserman: With Voter Suppression and Unverifiable Electronic Voting, 2016 Election Results Vulnerable to Theft

Week Ending April 8, 2016

Mel Goodman: GOP Candidates Trump, Cruz Follow ISIS Script By Stoking Hate and Fear Against Muslims
Mary Grant: Lead Poisoning Crisis in Flint Provokes Call for Federal Investment in Nation’s Public Water Infrastructure
Peter Kornbluh: After Thaw in U.S. Relations, Cubans Pursue Slow but Steady Pace of Change

Week Ending April 1, 2016

John Nichols: Ratings and Profit 'Trump' Journalism, As Big Media Gives 'The Donald' Billions in Free Airtime
Christopher Vials: Scholar: 'Donald Trump is Part of the Dark U.S. Fascist Tradition'
Josh Fox: New Documentary Film on Climate Change Supports Communities Combatting Fossil Fuel Expansion

March

Week Ending March 25, 2016

Melinda St. Louis: Primary Election Results Reflect Opposition to Free Trade, Challenging Elite Bipartisan Consensus
Robert Pollin: Study Finds Green Economy Produces Three Times More Jobs Than Fossil Fuel Industry
Tim Judson: Five Years Later Nuclear Crisis at Fukushima Continues