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.
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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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Jeremy Scahill keynote speech, part 1 from PROUDEYEMEDIA on Vimeo.
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"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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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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Interview with Kai Newkirk, campaign director with the group Democracy Spring, conducted by Scott Harris
For the first time in recent U.S. history, candidates competing to win their party’s nomination to run in the 2016 presidential election have been forced to address what many Americans believe to be their nation’s broken political system and economy rigged in favor of the wealthiest individuals and powerful corporations. While Vermont’s Independent Senator Bernie Sanders has devoted his campaign to articulating these grievances more than any other candidate, others vying for the White House, including Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, have to a lesser degree also emphasized the failings of America’s current political and economic status quo.
Now with record breaking unregulated campaign spending by unaccountable donors through Super PACS in the 2016 election campaign, plans are underway to organize a massive civil disobedience action at the U.S. Capitol this April, acknowledging the urgent need to address the failure of U.S. politics. Those participating in the peaceful protest will demand that Congress take immediate legislative action to end the corruption of big money in politics, protect the right to vote, and ensure free and fair elections that give every American an equal voice.
Organizers of the action, called “Democracy Spring,” say more than 2,000 individuals from around the country, including Mark Ruffalo, Larry Lessig, and Zephyr Teachout, have pledged to risk arrest in the non-violent sit-in at the U.S. Capitol. Between The Lines’ Scott Harris spoke with Kai Newkirk, Campaign Director with Democracy Spring, who talks about plans for what he says will be one of the largest civil disobedience actions in a generation, and the goals of the protest in this important election year.
Kai Newkirk is campaign director with Democracy Spring, which is organizing a massive civil disobedience action at the U.S. Capitol this April. For more information about the Democracy Spring and Democracy Awakening actions in Washington, D.C., visit http://Democracy_Spring.org".
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