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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This Week on Between The Lines
Posted Dec. 20, 2017 for week ending Dec. 29, 2017
"It cuts the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent. It cuts the top income tax rate from a little over 39 percent to 37 percent. By 2027, 10 years from now, it actually raises taxes on the bottom 60 percent of taxpayers."
– Alan Essig, executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy on how unfair the Republican "tax cuts" will be when implemented in 2018 and will worsen over the next 10 years
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Interview with Alan Essig, executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, conducted by Scott Harris
[UPDATED] With House and Senate passage of a final version of the Republican tax reform bill, Donald Trump and GOP legislators are celebrating their first major legislative win since the 2016 election. But in the long run, that partisan victory will be felt as a net loss for millions of Americans. The tax reform bill will permanently lower the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent. Businesses will be taxed at a lower rate than the majority of American’s who are wage earners. For individuals, the top income tax rate will be reduced to 37 percent from its current level of 39.6 percent. The super wealthy will also see benefits from reductions in the alternative minimum tax and the estate tax.
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Interview with Victor Pickard, associate professor of communication at the University of Pennsylvania, conducted by Scott Harris
As expected, the Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines on Dec. 14 to repeal the nation’s net neutrality rules. Those rules, since their ratification in 2015, had prevented Internet Service Providers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon from engaging in censorship, or controlling what consumers see and do on the web by slowing down or denying access to specific websites, apps, and other online services. The absence of regulation under net neutrality will now allow broadband providers to charge customers for paid prioritization, which could transform the Internet into something that looks more like cable television, where consumers would be charged additional fees to gain access to certain websites at faster speeds.
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Excerpts of talks by Sex Workers and Allies Network cofounder Beatrice Codianni and Connecticut Bail Fund Executive Director Brett Davidson at The International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers rally in New Haven, CT, recorded and produced by Melinda Tuhus
The International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers was observed this year on Dec. 17 in cities here in the U.S. and around the world. A group in New Haven, Connecticut – calling themselves Sex Workers and Allies Network, or SWAN, held a rally and march in solidarity with sex workers – and to mourn the many women – and some men – who have died or were murdered on the street. Those attending the rally also remembered two local women who disappeared and are now presumed dead.
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This week’s summary of under-reported news
MP3
Compiled by Bob Nixon
- Human rights activists are putting pressure on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to cancel a $12 billion-dollar arms sale to Saudi Arabia equipping vehicles with machine guns and anti-tank cannons. Trudeau explained that his government is only honoring the arms deal which was negotiated by his predecessor former Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
("Uncertainty Shrouds Canadian Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia," Al-Jazeera, Dec. 11, 2017;
"Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Is Pushing His Country To The Brink. Will It Hold Together?," Huffington Post, Dec. 9, 2017)
- At the One Planet Summit hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron, the World Bank pledged to stop making loans supporting oil and gas exploration in developing nations beginning in 2019. The new policy is part of a broader World Bank commitment to implement the Paris Climate accord. The global financial institution will also report on greenhouse gas emissions produced by energy projects it finances.
("World Bank to End Financial Support for Oil and Gas Extraction," The Guardian, Dec. 17, 2017;
"Huge Private Sector Investment Puts Paris Climate Target in Reach, Says Report," The Guardian, Nov. 17, 2017;
"Big Shift campaign reacts to World Bank commitment to end upstream oil and gas finance," Oil Change International, Dec. 12, 2017)
- Across California 30 percent of tenants pay half their income in rent and utilities, triple the costs during the boon times of the 1960s. Over the last decade, construction of affordable housing in California, has trailed far behind job and population growth. As a result the United Way of Greater Los Angeles expects a dramatic rise in the region’s homeless population.
("For Tenants on the Edge, Paying the Rent Often Takes More Than Half Their Income," Los Angeles Times, Dec. 3, 2017;
"An Affordable Housing Movement Is Rising from the Wreckage of the Foreclosure Crisis," In These Times, Nov. 17, 2017)
Recent Shows
December
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Philip Weiss: With Declaration of Jerusalem as Israel's Capital, Trump Angers World, Isolates U.S.
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Jefferson Morley: Trump Floats Idea to Establish Private Spy Agency
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April Taylor: U.S. Indigenous Communities Building Capacity to Confront Climate Change
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Frank Clemente: GOP Tax Reform a Scam Harming Working Families and the U.S. Economy
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Pedro Cruz: Climate Activists and Labor Must Work Together to Build a Clean Energy Future
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Steven Renderos: National Coalition Gears Up to Oppose Trump FCC Net Neutrality Repeal
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Alex Main: Fraud Could Deny Honduran Voters' Apparent Rejection of Unpopular Incumbent President
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Barbara Maclean: A 'Women's Solidarity Network' Could Provide Support for Victims of Sexual Harassment
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Bert Waters: U.S. Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier Delivers Passionate Thanksgiving Message
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Nancy Altman: Stealth GOP Tax Bill Provision Will Trigger Deep Cuts to Medicare
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Art Tanderup: Nebraska Regulators Approve Keystone XL Pipeline, But Activists Say the Fight is Far From Over
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Craig Aaron: FCC Removes Ownership Rules Allowing Right-Wing Network Sinclair to Reach 72 Percent of U.S. Households
November
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Gretchen Goldman: Trump Ban on EPA-Funded Scientists Serving on Agency Advisory Boards Endangers Public Health
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Pia Gallegos: Independent Report Slams Democrats in Post-2016 Election Autopsy
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Quentin Staggers: Homeless Activists March for Housing and Dignity in New Haven, Connecticut
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Adele M. Stan: Mueller's First Indictments Stirs Fear in White House
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Matthew Gardner: Trickle Down Hoax Central to GOP Tax Reform Plan
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Yanique Joseph: The Answer to Haiti's Deforestation Problem is a National Forestry Corps
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Julianne Tveten: Battle Against 'Fake News' Marginalizes Progressive Media Outlets
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Leroy Westerling: Dramatic Increase in Western U.S. Wildfires Linked to Climate Change
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Bill McKibben: The Desperate Science and Politics of Climate'
October
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Jamal Abdi: Trump's Decertification of Iran Nuclear Deal Isolates and Weakens U.S.
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Eagan Kemp: With Obamacare Subsidy Cut, Trump Will Raise Insurance Premiums, Reduce Coverage
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Laurie Sobel: Trump Guts Obamacare Birth Control Mandate in Another Blow to Reproductive Rights
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David Swanson: Trump Move to Decertify Iran Nuclear Agreement Would be a Clear Danger to U.S. and World
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Ana Portnoy: Many Puerto Ricans Believe 'Second-Class Citizen' Status Contributed to Failed Federal Hurricane Response
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Susan Dantino and Erica Roggeveen Byrne: Protests Greet Newly Dedicated Memorial Honoring Christopher Columbus in Connecticut
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Eric LeCompte: Eric LeCompte: Urgent Call for Debt Relief After Hurricane Shatters Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands
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Tyson Slocum: Tyson Slocum: Hurricane-Ravaged Puerto Rico Could Become a Model for Green-Energy Conversion
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Frederick Clarkson: Frederick Clarkson: Roy Moore's Alabama Senate Primary Victory Boosts GOP Christian Extremists
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Joseph Gerson: Reckless Trump-Kim Insult War Could Trigger Catastrophic Conflict
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Chad Bolt: Protests Help Defeat Latest GOP Obamacare Repeal Bill
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Erick and Jason Ramos: Supporters of Couple Ordered Deported Stage Direct Action Protest, Win Brief Court Stay
September
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Sarah Anderson: Trump-GOP Supported Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Produce Jobs
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Norman Solomon: Democrats' Progressive and Wall-Street Friendly Wings Battle Over Party's Future
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Reed Miller: LGBTQ Prison Support Group Black and Pink Works to Empower their Incarcerated Members
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Carolina Borotolleto: Dreamers Mobilize to Save DACA and Resist Trump
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Angel Candelario: Fight For $15 Labor Day Protests Demand Living Wage and a Union
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Robert Buzzanco: Unchecked Development and Deregulation Exacerbated Hurricane Harvey’s Destruction in Texas
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John H. Cushman Jr.: Texas Flood Linked with Extreme Weather Patterns Long Predicted by Climate Change Research
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Bo Webb: Trump Suspends Funds for Health Impact Study of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
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Melinda St. Louis: NAFTA Renegotiation Must Prioritize Public Interest Over Corporate Power
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Mark Hertsgaard: No Institutional Safeguards Stand Between Donald Trump and Nuclear War
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Chip Gibbons: DOJ Demands Data on Visitors to Anti-Trump Protest Website
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John Jairo Lugo: Community Groups Join Forces to Make New Haven, CT a Leading U.S. Sanctuary City
August
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Rabbi Mordechai Liebling: Witnessing White Supremacy's Violence and Hatred in Charlottesville
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Naomi Ages: Federal Report on Climate Change Impact Leaked Before Trump Can Censor It
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Linda Sarsour: Women’s March Organizer on Effective Resistance in the Age of Trump
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Brenda Shum: Trump Department of Justice Prepares to Sue Universities Over "Discrimination" Against White Applicants
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Jesus Morales-Sanchez: Community Stands in Solidarity with Guatemalan Immigrant Under Deportation Order
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Hilary O. Shelton: NAACP Issues Travel Advisory for Missouri for 'Jim Crow' State Law and Rise in Hate Crimes
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Matthew Gardner: Trump Tax Cut Plan Would Benefit Wealthiest Americans
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Masada Disenhouse: Climate Activists Say California's Cap and Trade Legislation is Gift to Big Oil
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Josh Ruebner: Congressional Bill Would Criminalize Americans' Support for Israel Boycott
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Dedrick Asante-Muhammad: America's Growing Racial Wealth Divide Endangers Nation's Future Economic Health
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Steve Palumbi: Climate Change's Rising Ocean Temperatures Bleaching and Killing Earth's Vital Coral
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George Lakey: Scandinavian Economic Model Provides Blueprint for a More Egalitarian Society
July
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Tomas Lopez: Is Presidential Commission on Election Integrity a GOP Trojan Horse to Expand Voter Suppression?
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Stan Heller: Israel and Palestinian Authority President Impose Extended Power Blackout on Gaza
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Susan Rogers: As GOP Senate Repeal and Replace Bill Dies, Support for Single-Payer, Universal Healthcare System Grows
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Cassady Craighill: Protesters Demand G20 Nations Do More to Address Climate Change
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Toni Harp: U.S. Conference of Mayors Adopts Resolutions Opposing Trump's Military Budget Increase
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Annie Bird: DEA Lied About Deadly Honduran Drug Raid, Accountability Demanded
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Tim Shorrock: As Tensions Rise on Korean Peninsula, Newly-Elected South Korean President Seeks Diplomatic Thaw with the North
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Jeremy Brecher: Climate Activists Must Devise Global Strategy to Challenge Power of Fossil Fuel Industry
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Alka Pradhan: Trump Nominates a Bush Administration Lawyer Who Authorized Torture
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Gerald Friedman: Senate Healthcare Bill Will Cause 22 Million to Lose Health Insurance, Tens of Thousands to Die
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Andrea Flynn: GOP Senate and House 'Repeal and Replace' HealthCare Bills Attack Women's Reproductive Rights
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Mike Oxford: Disability Rights Activists Arrested in Direct Action Protest Opposing GOP's Deep Medicaid Cuts
June
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Morris Pearl: GOP House Guts Dodd-Frank Financial Regulations, Inviting Next Financial Disaster
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Alden Meyer: Climate Alliance Tells World: Trump Doesn’t Speak for U.S. on Climate Change
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Melissa Mays: Michigan State Officials Face Manslaughter Charges in Flint Water Crisis Deaths
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Mark Weisbrot: Labour Party's Jeremy Corbyn Surprises Pundits with UK Election Gains
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John Nichols: U.S. Progressive Movement Looks to Broaden Agenda Beyond Trump Resistance
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Lee Stewart: Coalition Demands Senate Block All New Nominations of Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioners
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Karen Orenstein: Trump's Rationale for Withdrawing U.S. from Paris Climate Accord Based on Lies
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Marc Mauer: Trump to Reinstate Drug War-Era Harsh Sentences in Federal Drug Cases
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Cathy Kennedy: California Senate Takes First Step Toward State Single-Payer Universal Healthcare
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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