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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"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 June 7, 2017 for week ending June 16, 2017

"He constructed his own reality ... that somehow the Paris Climate Agreement was a conspiracy by the rest of the world to harm the U.S. in terms of jobs, in terms of economics."
– Karen Orenstein, deputy director with Friends of the Earth, on how President Donald Trump's rationale to withdraw the U.S. from Paris Climate Accord is based on lies.
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Interview with Karen Orenstein, deputy director with Friends of the Earth, conducted by Scott Harris
President Trump announced on June 1 that he would withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accord, the global agreement signed by 195 country in 2016, except two, to set targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and limit the increase in global temperatures. During his announcement in the White House Rose Garden, Trump repeated claims made often during the 2016 election campaign that the Paris Agreement hurt the U.S. economy by deliberately putting the country at a competitive disadvantage and thereby contributing to unemployment.
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Interview with Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, conducted by Melinda Tuhus
News of Donald Trump's recent trip abroad, his decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement and the ongoing investigation into charges that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to influence the outcome of the U.S. presidential election, has dominated the news for the past two weeks. But during that time, Trump has launched another major shift away from Obama-era policies that has mostly slipped below the radar. That is the announcement by Attorney General Jeff Sessions of a return to a "tough on crime" policy in federal sentencing guidelines and also on the use of private prisons for federal inmates.
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Interview with Cathy Kennedy, registered nurse and member of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee Board of Directors, conducted by Scott Harris
As President Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress push to repeal Obamacare and institute a new health care system that would cause an estimated 23 million people to lose their health insurance coverage, the nation’s largest state is moving in the opposite direction. Proposed legislation, SB 562, known as the Heathy California Act, would establish a universal, single-payer health insurance system that would provide coverage for all of California’s 39 million citizens, without out-of-pocket costs.
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This week’s summary of under-reported news
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Compiled by Bob Nixon
- The Guardian reports more wealth is extracted from sub-Saharan Africa than is provided to the continent from foreign aid, loans and Africans sending remittances from abroad. Africa is often portrayed as a continent in desperate poverty in need of urgent aid. Yet, Africa has plentiful and valuable natural resources vital to the global digital economy. But a large percentage of these resources are controlled by foreign corporations or corrupt local officials, who hide their ill-gotten gains in tax havens.
("World Is Plundering Africa's Wealth of 'Billions of Dollars a Year'," The Guardian, May 24, 2017;)
- In the aftermath of the recent summit of the world’s G-7 nations in Taormina, Italy, Germany’s conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel was clearly angry at US President Donald Trump when she declared “We Europeans truly have to take our fate into our own hands.”
("Angela Merkel: EU Cannot Completely Rely on US and Britain Any More," The Guardian, May 28, 2017;
"What Would Europe's 'Fate' Be without the Us?" DW, May 30, 2017)
- Congressional Democrats have introduced a long awaited piece of legislation to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 dollars an hour by 2024. The bill would eliminate the sub-minimum wage for tipped workers such as restaurant servers and taxi drivers.
("Below the Minimum No More," The American Prospect, May 30, 2017;
"Why a $15 Minimum Wage Is Good Economics," The American Prospect, May 4, 2017)
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June
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Alex Lawson: Trump Budget Poses Grave Threat to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid
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Ron Fein: Evidence and Momentum Grows for Trump Impeachment
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Cleve Jones: Lifelong Activist's Lessons Learned Fighting for Social Justice
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Marjorie Cohn: Evidence Mounts That Trump Attempted to Obstruct Justice In Russia Probe
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Kathy Kelly: Saudi Arabia Intervention and U.S. Arms Fuel Escalating Carnage in Yemen's Civil War
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Matt Remle: North American Indigenous Divestment Campaign Targets Banks Funding Tar Sands Crude Oil Pipelines
May
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Richard Wolff: French Election Highlights the Failure to Address Unemployment and Inequality
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Sahar Francis: Palestinian Hunger Strike Calls Attention to Human Rights Violations in Israeli Prisons
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Wendell Potter: Health Insurance Industry Supports GOP Attempt to Repeal Obamacare Protections
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Christine Ahn: Women Activists Call on Trump to Initiate Regional Peace Talks with North Korea
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Matthew Gardner: Trump "Tax Reform" Plan Revives Voodoo Economics
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Aaron Greenberg: Graduate Student Hunger Strikers Pressure Yale to Start Union Contract Talks
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Marcy Wheeler: Trump Prosecution of Julian Assange Would Pose a Grave Threat to Press Freedom
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Mark Weisbrot: Unemployment, Xenophobia Lifts Fascist Candidate to Final Round of French Election
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Dan Barrett: Connecticut Activists Work to Establish Effective Police Civilian Complaint Review Board
April
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John Feffer: Trump and Kim Jong Un Trade Threats Risk Triggering Deadly Conflict in Korean Peninsula
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Sara Shor: Opponents Vow to Stop Keystone XL Pipeline After Trump Grants Construction Permit
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Walt McRee: Leading Democratic Candidate for New Jersey Governor Calls for State-Owned Public Bank
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Paul Kawika Martin: Trump's Syria Missile Strike: Symbolic Show of Force or Prelude to Wider U.S. War?
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Debra Torres: CT National Popular Vote Activists Push for Legislation to Nullify Electoral College
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Dr. Sarah Evanega: March For Science Warns that Without Truth and Transparency, Authoritarianism Can Take Over
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Tim Donaghy: With Rollback of Obama Climate Regulations, Trump Declares War on Planet Earth
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Chris Calabrese: GOP Congress and Trump Strip Americans of Internet Privacy Protections
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Tony Ferraiolo: Connecticut Rally Demands Equal Rights for Transgender Community
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Carol Paris: GOP's Failure to Replace Obamacare Opens Space to Debate Medicare-For-All System
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Jim Dean: Progressive Groups Pressure Senate Democrats to Block Trump Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch
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Connie Leeper: Local and Climate Activists Unite to Oppose Atlantic Coast Pipeline
March
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Gerald Friedman: Economist: Under GOP Healthcare Plan, 24,000 Additional Uninsured Will Die Annually
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JoDe Goudy: Native Nations Rise Protest Demands Respect for Sovereignty, Culture and the Environment
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L.A. Kauffman: 40-Year History of Radical Activism Offers Useful Lessons for Today's Trump Resistance Movement
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Kevin Martin: Trump's New Travel Ban: Same Hateful Policy in a New Package
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James S. Henry: Links Between Trump, Russian Oligarchs, The Bank of Cyprus and Wilbur Ross Uncovered
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Linda Anderson: Keystone Pipeline Opponents Resist Trump's Construction Green Light
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Benjamin Schreiber: Trump and Pruitt Plan to Dismantle EPA Through Deep Budget Cuts, Staff Layoffs
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Shannon Jackson: Progressives Ponder Next Move After Ellison Loses to Perez in DNC Chair Election
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Julie Richards: Drug Addiction Plaguing Northern Plains Indigenous Communities Linked to Oil Industry
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Norman Solomon: Nationwide Effort to Impeach Donald Trump Launches with Petition Drive
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Matt Wood: New Trump FCC Chairman Aims to End Net Neutrality, Consumer Protections
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Fatima Rojas: Advocacy Groups Reach Out to Immigrant Communities Fearful of Trump Mass Deportations
February
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Allegra Chapman: Attorney General Sessions Must be Watched Closely for Biased Conduct
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Chase Iron Eyes: Opponents Prepare for Last Stand After Trump OKs Resuming DAPL Construction
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Leslie Cagan: Unity, Diverse Tactics and Local Focus Key to Sustain Anti-Trump Activist Movement
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Elliott Mincberg: If Senate Confirms Gorsuch for Supreme Court, Corporate America Wins, Workers Lose
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Carol Burris: DeVos Narrowly Confirmed by Senate, Resistance to Privatization of Education Continues
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Keishar Tucker: “Inside the Box” Project Aims to Inspire Movement to End Solitary Confinement
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Pardiss Kebriaei: Legal Challenge Temporarily Blocks Trump Muslim Ban
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Medea Benjamin: Do Massive Anti-Trump Protests Signal Rebirth of a U.S. Progressive Movement?
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Marc Mauer: Bipartisan Criminal Justice Reform Efforts Likely to Suffer Under Trump
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women's march: The Trump Resistance Starts Now: Voices of the New Regime Change Movement
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Tim DeChristopher: Taking Risks to Protect the Planet in Trump Era of Climate Change Denial
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Aaron Scherb: Lawsuit Claims Trump Conflicts of Interest Violates U.S. Constitution
January
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Mel Goodman: Trump, Russia and How U.S. Provoked a New Cold War
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Jeremy Brecher: Organizing Social Self-Defense Under the Trump Regime
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Paul Gunter: Deal Reached to Close Indian Point, One of America's Most Dangerous Nuclear Power Plants
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Robert Borosage: As Trump Moves into the White House, Democrats Need a Bold New Vision
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George Lakey: Scandinavian Economic Model Provides Blueprint for a More Egalitarian Society
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Ted Glick: Activist's Fast to Pressure Obama to Grant Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier Executive Clemency
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Richard Silverstein: Obama's Break with Israel's Settler Expansion Too Little, Too Late
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Chip Gibbons: Trump and Cabinet Nominees Pose a Grave Threat to Civil Liberties
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Steve Palumbi: Climate Change's Rising Ocean Temperatures Bleaching and Killing Earth's Vital Coral
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Greg Palast: Here's Why the GOP Fought So Hard to Stop Rust Belt State Vote Recount
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Wendell Potter: Trump Pledge to Repeal Obamacare Will Trigger Insurance Marketplace Chaos and Political Backlash
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Marty Hayden: Trump and GOP Threaten to Overturn Obama's New Mining Stream Protection Rule
December
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Drew Courtney: Sen. Jeff Sessions' Attorney General Nomination Among Trump's Most Dangerous Cabinet Picks
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Benjamin Schreiber: Trump Administration Intent on Eviscerating Environmental and Climate Protection Regulations
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Rebecca Vilkomerson: Trump's New Extremist Ambassador to Israel Removes Fig Leaf from U.S. Middle East Policy
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Michael Corcoran: To Stop Trump Agenda, Progressive Activists Must Push Democrats to Boldly Resist
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Stacy Mitchell: New Report Warns of Amazon.com's Increasing Dominance, Endangering Competition and Democracy
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Stephanie Tsosie: Tribe Welcomes Army Corps Decision on Dakota Access Pipeline, But Fight Far From Over
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Nancy Altman: Trump Cabinet Pick Advocates Privatization of Medicare
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Cassady Fendlay: Women's March on Washington Challenging Trump Agenda Gathers National Momentum
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Johanna Rupprecht: Campaign Wins Ban on Frac Sand Mining in Minnesota's Winona County
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Steven Rosenfeld: Election Recounts in Key Battleground States Will Reveal Deep Flaws in U.S. Electoral Machinery
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Robert Jensen: Passive U.S. Media Moving Quickly to Normalize Trump's Hate Speech and Stream of Nonstop Lies
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Ron Pauley: GOP Senate Leader Blocking Bill to Extend Promised Health Care to Retired Coal Miners
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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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Sue Udry: Civil Liberties Groups Will Push Next President For Stronger Surveillance Reforms
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Matt Wood: Proposed AT&T-Time Warner Merger Provokes Broad Opposition
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Corey Menafee: Campaign to Change Yale University College Pro-Slavery Namesake Gains Momentum
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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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Roger Salazar: California's Proposition 61 Threatens Drug Company Monopoly Pricing
October
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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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Jennifer Clark: Group Warns Trump's 'Election Observers' Can Lead to Voter Intimidation
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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