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.
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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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Posted Nov. 30, 2016 for week ending Dec. 9, 2016
"In Michigan, for example, there was something like 80,000 to 90,000 ballots that were scanned that didn't register a presidential vote. There were only 11,000 votes separating Clinton and Trump. The Michigan state election officials ... say nothing is wrong, but this becomes an example of well, let's take a look. Verify it, don't take anybody's word."
– Steven Rosenfeld, journalist with AlterNet.org and author of "Count My Vote: A Citizen's Guide to Voting," on several examples of voting system irregularities that prompted Green party candidate Jill Stein's recount efforts in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
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Interview with Steven Rosenfeld, journalist with AlterNet.org and author of "Count My Vote: A Citizen's Guide to Voting," conducted by Scott Harris
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has captured national attention in this anxious post-election period by calling for recounts in the battleground states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Despite Stein’s own view that the recounts won’t likely change the election outcome, the two-time Green Party standard bearer says she’s launched the recount drive to draw attention to serious questions that have emerged about the integrity of the nation’s voting system after allegations that Russia had hacked Democratic Party emails, and concern about the security of older electronic voting machines. While Donald Trump won the election based on the archaic Electoral College vote allocation, he lost the popular vote by more than 2 million ballots. Although Hillary Clinton had not requested a recount, her campaign decided to take part in the effort to "ensure that it is fair to all sides."
Story continues
Interview with Robert Jensen, professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, author of the forthcoming book, "The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men", conducted by Scott Harris
From the moment Donald Trump launched his presidential candidacy in the Republican party primary, it was clear that the real estate billionaire and reality TV star was not just another ordinary politician. His denunciations of Mexicans, Muslims and raw expressions of misogyny disregarded the standard GOP dog whistle-style bigotry that's been part of the GOP for decades. Instead, Trump’s incendiary hate speech – linked with the scapegoating of minorities – succeeded in galvanizing his support among white men who were eager to identify those to blame for the decline of America’s middle class and their standard of living. Although the right-wing populism with bogus bumper sticker-like policy solutions helped Trump win the GOP nomination and the Electoral College vote, most Americans saw through the scam and voted against him.
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Interview with Ron Pauley, retired union miner working for congressional passage of the Miners Protection Act, conducted by Melinda Tuhus
A New York Times editorial on Nov. 28 scolded Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky for his refusal to support legislation called the Miners’ Protection Act. In the wake of major shifts in the coal industry and many bankruptcies, coal companies have, in many cases, been released from their obligation to guarantee cradle-to-grave health care for their union employees. Those benefits were won in 1946 through negotiations between then President Harry Truman and the powerful president of the United Mine Workers of America at the time, John L. Lewis.
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This week’s summary of under-reported news
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Compiled by Bob Nixon
- For weeks, hundreds of thousands of South Koreans have flooded into the streets of Seoul, the capital city to demand the resignation of President Park Geun-hye in the largest protests in a generation. In late October, a corruption scandal exploded which engulfed Park and her key associates. Allegations surfaced suggesting government officials pressured major corporations like Samsung to make multi million dollar donations to sports groups controlled by Choi Soon-sil, a longtime friend of the president.(
"No Confidantes," The Economist, Nov. 5, 2016;
"South Korean Prosecutors Say President Conspired with Her Longtime Friend," Los Angeles Times, Nov. 29, 2016;
"5 Reasons Why South Korea's President Is Unlikely to Quit," CNN, Nov. 23, 2016)
- Two years ago, heavily armed police in Sandpoint Idaho, killed Native American Jeannetta Riley. Riley who was homeless and pregnant with a history of mental illness, refused to drop a knife before she was shot by police. Only moments earlier her husband had sought aid at a local hospital fearing Riley would commit suicide.(
"The Police Killings No One Is Talking About," In These Times, Oct. 17, 2016)
- Many of America’s poorest workers toil in America’s massive food chain, which includes farm workers, laborers in food processing plants, supermarket workers and restaurant staff. Despite recent job growth within the food industry, which now employs more people than work in the U.S. manufacturing sector, wages remain stagnant with few benefits. The average wage for workers in the food sector is just $10 dollars an hour with incomes of only $16,000 dollar a year.("No Piece of the Pie," Food Chain Workers Alliance + Solidarity Research Cooperative, Nov. 2016)
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Drew Courtney: Opponents Organize to Block Expected Trump Muslim Registry and Jeff Sessions' Attorney General Nomination
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Greg Palast: GOP Wrongly Purged More Than 1 Million Votes, Changing Election Outcome
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Kyle Bailey: Maine Becomes First State in Nation to Adopt Ranked Choice Voting System
November
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Thomas Frank: Democrats' Failure to Address Economic Insecurity Gave Trump Election Advantage
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Dr. Willie Parker: Trump's Vow to Make Abortion Illegal Will Have Greatest Impact on Nation's Poor
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Chris Pearson: Viable Campaign Underway to Nullify America's Undemocratic Electoral College
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Robert Parry: Will Russia's Role in U.S. Election Provoke or Avert New Cold War?
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John P. Geyman: Obamacare Insurance Rate Increases Prompt Renewed Call for Medicare for All
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Anthony Rogers-Wright: Climate Activists Brace for Post-Election Fight to Rein in Fossil Fuels Expansion
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Matt Wood: Proposed AT&T-Time Warner Merger Provokes Broad Opposition
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Marge Baker: Next President Will Have the Power to Shift Direction of Supreme Court
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Brigid Flaherty: Women Rise Up to Protest Trump's Boast of Sexual Assault and GOP's Legacy of Sexism
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Mark Ames: Charges of Russian Interference in U.S. Election Adds to Fear of New Cold War
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Bill Fletcher Jr.: A Post-Election Strategy for the U.S. Progressive Movement
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Arlinda Tray Johns: Formerly Incarcerated Woman Strives to Become an Attorney and Fight for Criminal Justice Reform
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Shane Burley: 'Alt-Right' White Supremacists Organizing Support on U.S. College Campuses
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Chris Schweitzer: City Promotes Dialogue on Climate Change as Essential Prerequisite to Action
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Chris Knestrick: Colombian Voters Narrowly Reject Peace Agreement to End 52 Years of War
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Kennette Benedict: Obama Administration Rejects Adopting Nuclear Weapons No-First Use Pledge
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Kevin Alexander Gray: Professional Athletes Stepping Up to Protest Police Violence and Racial Injustice
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September
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Trevor Timm: U.S. Human Rights Groups Press Obama to Grant Snowden Presidential Pardon
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Hugh MacMillan: Report Details Wall Street Banks Financing Controversial Dakota Access Pipeline
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Patricia Hynes: U.S. Military Industrial Complex a Major Contributor to Climate Change Crisis
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Paul Winter: Paul Winter's New Song Supports Movement to Free Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier
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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
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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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Bob Zellner: Moral Revolution of Values Tour Carries on Civil and Human Rights Struggle
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Claire Miller: Environmental Groups Call for Halt to New England Natural Gas Energy Conversion
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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
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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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David Swanson: Britain's Chilcot Report on Iraq War Deceptions Highlights Lack of Accountability in U.K. and U.S.
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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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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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Becky Meier: Activists Defeat Gas Pipeline Projects, Work to Recruit NIMBY Neighbors to Climate Fight
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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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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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Antonia Juhasz: Six Years After BP Oil Spill Disaster, Public Opinion Turns Against Dangerous Deep Water Oil Drilling
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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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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