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Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine at the Left Forum, June 7-9, Pace University, New York City

Between The Lines' Left Forum audio coverage (more forthcoming):

• A speech by 2012 Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein at the opening plenary session of the 2013 Left Forum in New York City, on the conference theme: "Mobilizing for Ecological and Economic Transformation" (28:36)
• A speech by Noam Chomsky provides a global political analysis on this year's Left Forum conference theme "Mobilizing for Ecological/Economic Transformation". Noam Chomsky is a US political theorist and activist, and institute professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Besides his work in linguistics, Chomsky is internationally recognized as one of the most critically engaged public intellectuals alive today.(1:07:06)
• Listen to more audio from other Left Forum workshops here.

SPECIAL AUDIO RECORDING:
Bill McKibben, environmental activist and founder of 350.org talks about the next steps in the climate change campaign

An address by Bill McKibben, founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org, upon receiving the annual Gandhi Peace Award from the New Haven-based group Promoting Enduring Peace on April 18 in Hamden, CT

Bill McKibben, Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College and author of a dozen books about the environment, beginning with "The End of Nature" in 1989, which is regarded as the first book for a general audience on climate change. The group he founded, 350.org, has coordinated 15,000 rallies in 189 countries since 2009. The Boston Globe said in 2010 that he was "probably the country’s most important environmentalist."

SPECIAL AUDIO RECORDING:
Alexis Tsipras, leader of Greece's Left Party Coalition, on "Anti-Austerity Politics in Greece, Europe and Beyond"

A talk recorded on Jan. 25, 2013 at The City University of New York, in a program sponsored by CUNY's Center for the Study of Culture, Technology, and Work.

Alexis Tsipras, a member of the Hellenic parliament, president of the Synaspismos political party since 2008, head of the SYRIZA parliamentary group since 2009, and leader of the Opposition since June 2012. SYRIZA currently leads in Greek opinion polls. Listen to the audio here.

Listen to Scott Harris Live on WPKN Radio

Between The Lines' Executive Producer Scott Harris hosts a live, weekly talk show, Counterpoint, from which some of Between The Lines' interviews are excerpted. Listen every Monday evening from 8 to 10 p.m. EDT at www.WPKN.org (Follows the 5-7 minute White Rose Calendar.)

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 BTL Blog

"Making War on Syria," by Reginald Johnson, June 14, 2013

"Syria in the Gunsights," by Reginald Johnson, May 9, 2013

"Curbing Gun Violence," by Reginald Johnson, April 4, 2013

"Fighting the Pipeline," by Reginald Johnson, March 26, 2013

"Downgrading Ed Schultz," by Reginald Johnson, March 17, 2013

"Rand Paul: Making a Point," by Reginald Johnson, March 8, 2013

"The Bipartisan Gift: Budget Cuts," by Reginald Johnson, March 2, 2013

"Fighting for Gun Control," by Reginald Johnson, Feb. 18, 2013

"Tyranny of the Minority," by Reginald Johnson, Jan. 28, 2013

"Is President Obama About to Betray Those Who Re-elected Him Less than 2 Months Ago?" by Scott Harris, Dec. 21, 2012

"Will the Slaughter of the Innocents in Newtown Lead to Gun Law Reform in U.S.?" by Scott Harris and Anna Manzo, Dec. 16, 2012

"My Friend in Sandy Hook," by Doug Moss, posted by Scott Harris, Dec. 16, 2012

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 Special Programming

MP3: Glenn Greenwald delivers a keynote address at "A Conference in Defense of Civil Liberties and to End Indefinite Detention" at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain on Dec. 8, 2012.

Glenn Greenwald is a columnist on civil liberties and US national security issues for the Guardian newspaper. He's a former constitutional lawyer, and until 2012 was a contributing writer at Salon.com. Greenwald is the author of "With Liberty and Justice For Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful."

Read his column at The Guardian (UK)
Between The Lines' executive producer Scott Harris conducted an interview with Glenn Greenwald at the conference, which will be featured in a BTL program to be released Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012.

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Noam Chomsky is linguistics and philosophy professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Author of nearly 100 books, Chomsky is one of the world's most widely read progressive dissident intellectuals. He talks about his new book, "Occupy," about the Occupy Wall Street movement and the wider issues of class warfare in the America today.
Listen to this interview (June 6, 2011)

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MP3: Nathan Schneider (www.wagingnonviolence.org) has been reporting on the OWS movement from its first days in August, 2011. In this April 3, 2012 interview, Richard Hill asks him to assess the on-going debate in the movement between those espousing a strict adherence to non-violence principles and practices and those advocating a 'diversity of tactics', Interview conducted by Richard Hill, WPKN

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U.S. Politics

• "NSA Scandal Seems to Have Done Serious Damage to Obama’s Image," by Jon Walker, Firedoglake, June 17, 2013
• "Put the Spies Back Under One Roof," by Tim Shorrock, The New York Times, June 17, 2013
• "Justices Reject Arizona Voting Law Requiring Proof of Citizenship," The New York Times, June 17, 2013
• "New Visions from the New Left," by David Moberg, In These Times, June 12, 2013
• "How James Clapper will get away with perjury," by Paul Campos, Salon, June 12, 2013
• "N.S.A. Disclosures Put Awkward Light on Previous Denials," The New York Times, June 11, 2013
• "Obama Nominates America’s Biggest Walmart Cheerleader as His Chief Economic Adviser," by Lynn Stuart Parramore, AlterNet, June 11, 2013
• "How the US Congress lost the plot on secrecy, surveillance and accountability," by Marcy Wheeler, Guardian/UK, June 7, 2013
• "The Split Between the States," by The New York Times editorial, The New York Times, June 5, 2013
• "Obama to Nominate 3 to Fill Posts on Key Appeals Court," The New York Times, June 3, 2013
• "The Other Side of the IRS ‘Scandal’," by William Boardman, Consortium News, June 2, 2013
• "Pugnacious Builder of the Business Lobby," The New York Times, June 1, 2013
• "The Anarchy Project," by Danny Goldberg, The Nation, May 31, 2013
• "Corporate Influence at the Center for American Progress?," by Ken Silverstein, The Nation, May 30, 2013
• "It Wasn't Michele Bachmann's Ideas, It Was Her Money Power," by John Nichols, The Nation, May 29, 2013
• "Bachmann, Facing Inquiries, Will Not Seek Re-election in 2014," The New York Times, May 29, 2013
• "Radical Remaking of the Economy is Taking Root," by Kevin Zeese & Margaret Flowers, Counterpunch, May 29, 2013
• "Congress Still Puts Out for Wall Street," by Robert Scheer, TruthDig, May 27, 2013
• "Why Democrats Can’t be Trusted to Control Wall Street," by Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog, May 24, 2013
• "Collateral Consequences Weighed for Corporations, Not for Individuals," by Russell Mokhiber, Corporate Crime Reporter, May 24, 2013
• " Dispute Over Budget Deepens a Rift Within the G.O.P.," The New York Times, May 24, 2013
• "Collapse: Does Washington Bridge Expose the Crumbling of a Nation?," Common Dreams, May 24, 2013
• "Why Liberals Need Radicals," by David Callahan, Demos, May 24, 2013
• "Washington’s Literal Sinkhole, And Our Idiotic Fixation On Deficits," by Robert Borosage, Campaign for America's Future, May 23, 2013
• "How America Became a Third World Country: 2013-2023," by Andy Kroll, Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford, TomDispatch, May 21, 2013
• "Letter to 'The Nation' From a Young Radical," by Bhaskar Sunkara, The Nation, May 21, 2013
• "The Secret Donors Behind the Center for American Progress and Other Think Tanks," by Ken Silverstein, The Nation, May 21, 2013
• "Marching in Chicago: Resisting Rahm Emanuel's Neoliberal Savagery," by Henry A. Giroux, Truthout, May 20, 2013
• "Beltway scandal machine breaks, knows nothing about America," by Joan Walsh, Salon, May 20, 2013
• "Is Democracy in Trouble?," by E.J. Dionne, Jr., TruthDig, May 20, 2013
• "The Long, Sordid History of the American Right and Racism," by Robert Parry, Consortium News, May 19, 2013
• "OFA Refuses To Push On Keystone," by Ryan Grim & Lucia Graves, Huffington Post, May 16, 2013
• "Billionaires Unchained: The New Pay-As-You-Go Landscape of American “Democracy”," by Tom Engelhardt & Andy Kroll, TomDispatch, May 16, 2013
• "Cutting Social Security and Not Taxing Wall Street," by Dean Baker, Huffington Post, May 15, 2013
• "As IRS Scandal Spirals, Progressives Defend Rights 'Even the Tea Party Deserves'," Common Dreams, May 14, 2013
• "Eric Holder Must Go," by Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, May 14, 2013
• "U.S. Budget Deficit Shrinks Far Faster Than Expected," The New York Times, May 14, 2013
• "The IRS should do more, not less, scrutinizing of political groups," by Arn Pearson, Guardian/UK, May 14, 2013
• "Stop holding Democrats to a different standard," by David Sirota, Salon, May 14, 2013
• "When the IRS targeted liberals," by Alex Seitz-Wald, Salon, May 14, 2013
• " IRS targeting: senior officials knew of political issues, says report," Associated Press, May 13, 2013
• "Congressmen Seek Constitutional Guarantee of the Right to Vote," by John Nichols, The Nation, May 13, 2013
• "I.R.S. Focus on Conservatives Gives G.O.P. an Issue to Seize On," The New York Times, May 12, 2013

Economy

• "Wall Street is winning the long war against post-crash regulation," by Heidi Moore, Guardian/UK, June 16, 2013
• "9 Ways the Right’s Cradle to Grave “Randian State” Is An Assault on Millennials," by Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's Future, June 16, 2013
• "The U.S. job market is still worse than at any point during the 2001 downturn," Washington Post, June 12, 2013
• "Walmart breaks ban on Bangladesh factories," by Michael Grabell, Salon, June 12, 2013
• "Target Janitors in Minnesota Prepare to Strike," by Alleen Brown, The Nation, June 10, 2013
• "Chicago Demands Justice for Wal-Mart Workers," by Griffin Bur, In These Times, June 8, 2013
• "ILO: U.S. Inequality Now Literally Off the Chart," by Salvatore Babones, Inequality.org, June 6, 2013
• "Always Low Wages: Meet the Billionaires Who Run," by Josh Eidelson, The Nation, June 5, 2013
• "What’s at Stake in the Supreme Court Decision in 'AMP v. Myriad Genetics'," by Rose-Ellen Lessy, The Nation, June 5, 2013
• "The World Economy ‘s a Ticking Time Bomb (and The Fuse is Burning)," by Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's Future, June 4, 2013
• "The $2.7 Trillion Medical Bill: Colonoscopies Explain Why U.S. Leads the World in Health Expenditures," by Elisabeth Rosenthal, The New York Times, June 1, 2013
• "The Social Costs of Capitalism," by Paul Craig Roberts, Counterpunch, May 31, 2013
• "Cooperative Economics: Replacing a Capitalism in Collapse," by Carl Gibson, Occupy.com, May 30, 2013
• "Economic Storm Clouds Ahead," by Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog, May 30, 2013
• "For Real Economic Recovery, Government Must Stop Favoring Banks Over Homeowners," by Kevin Zeese & Margaret Flowers, Truthout, May 29, 2013
• "Judge gives Patriot Coal OK to cut benefits," by Paul J. Nyden, West Virgina Gazette, May 29, 2013
• "Blood on Gap Jeans," by Leo Gerard, In These Times, May 28, 2013
• "The World's Richest 8% Earn Half of All Planetary Income," by Eric Zuesse, AlterNet, May 28, 2013
• "The bank bailout cost US taxpayers nothing? Think again," by Moira Herbst, Guardian/UK, May 28, 2013
• "Consumerism and Its Discontents," by Charles Derber, Truthout, May 27, 2013
• "Beware Capitalist Tools," by Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog, May 27, 2013
• "Nightmare in Portugal," by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, May 27, 2013
• "The Real Numbers: Half of America in Poverty -- and It's Creeping Upward," by Paul Buchheit, AlterNet, May 26, 2013
• "The US and the Euro-crisis: Lessons from a comparison," by Mark Weisbrot, Al Jazeera English, May 26, 2013
• "The Chained CPI Is Bad for Seniors and for Accuracy," by John Miller, Dollars & Sense, May 26, 2013
• "Global Capital and the Nation State," by Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog, May 20, 2013
• "Enabling Greed Makes U.S. Sick," by Bill Moyers & Michael Winship, Move Over AIPAC, May 20, 2013
• "Apple’s Web of Tax Shelters Saved It Billions, Panel Finds," The New York Times, May 20, 2013
• "Public Outrage Over Factory Conditions Spurs Labor Deal," The New York Times, May 19, 2013
• "Big Banks Get Break in Rules to Limit Risks," The New York Times, May 15, 2013
• "Walmart refuses to join worker safety deal," Guardian/UK, May 15, 2013
• "Deadly Manufacturing Mirage, Green-Red Alternative," by Paul Street, ZNet, May 14, 2013
• "How the Case for Austerity Has Crumbled," by Paul Krugman, New York Review of Books, May 14, 2013
• "The Upside Down Economy," by Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect, May 13, 2013
• "Austerity Advocates on the Run," by Dean Baker, Counterpunch, May 13, 2013

Bush Accountability

• "Bush's Legacy of Atrocities Is Nowhere to Be Seen at His New Library -- and the Local Paper Won't Even Run One Ad That Tells the Truth," by Jodie Evans & Charles Davis, AlterNet, April 23, 2013
• "The High Crime of Torture: Arrest Bush, Impeach Obama," by Rob Urie, Counterpunch, April 19, 2013
• "New Torture Report Blames Obama and the Media for Not Confronting the Truth," by Dan Froomkin, Huffington Post, April 17, 2013
• "U.S. Engaged in Torture After 9/11, Review Concludes," The New York Times, April 16, 2013
• "Even Bipartisan Conventional Wisdom Report Says It Was Torture," by Marcy Wheeler, Emptywheel, April 16, 2013
• "Cheney's Halliburton Made $39.5 Billion on Iraq War," by Angelo Young, ZNet, April 7, 2013

International Affairs

• "Will Obama Blow His Chance With Iran's New President?," by Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation, June 17, 2013
• "Troubling Implications of Susan Rice's Appointment as National Security Adviser," by Stephen Zunes, Truthout, June 17, 2013
• "Iran has changed course. Now the US must do the same," by Jonathan Steele, Guardian/UK, June 16, 2013
• "New Leak Indicates Britain and U.S. Tracked Diplomats," The New York Times, June 16, 2013
• "How Dystopian Secrecy Contributes to Clueless Wars: Bradley Manning Has Done More for U.S. Security than SEAL Team 6," by Tom Engelhardt & Chase Madar, TomDispatch, June 11, 2013
• "Honduras: When will the US stop funding death squads?," by Lauren Carasik, Al Jazeera English, June 4, 2013
• "US and China to discuss cybersecurity at high-level diplomatic meetings," Guardian/UK, June 2, 2013
• "As Syrians Fight, Sectarian Strife Infects Mideast," The New York Times, June 1, 2013
• "Naming Our Nameless War: How Many Years Will It Be?," by Tom Engelhardt & Andrew J. Bacevich, TomDispatch, May 28, 2013
• "'Indonesia is seeing a new corporate colonialism'," Guardian/UK, May 25, 2013
• "What Guilt Does the U.S. Bear in Guatemala?," The New York Times, May 20, 2013
• "At least four suspected militants killed in Yemen drone strike," Reuters, May 18, 2013
• "Where Has All the Money Gone? How Contractors Raked in $385 Billion to Build and Support Bases Abroad," by Tom Engelhardt & David Vine, TomDispatch, May 14, 2013

"Postwar" Occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan

• "More than 1,000 killed in Iraq violence in May," Reuters, June 1, 2013
• "Suicide Bombers Attack a Red Cross Compound in Eastern Afghanistan," The New York Times, May 29, 2013
• " At Least 53 Are Killed in Bombings in Baghdad," The New York Times, May 27, 2013
• "From Crisis to Crisis in Baghdad," by Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch, May 27, 2013
• "The Afghanistan War Comes Home to Philadelphia," by Dave Lindorff, Counterpunch, May 27, 2013
• "We've moved on from the Iraq war – but Iraqis don't have that choice," by John Pilger, Guardian/UK, May 26, 2013
• "Death Toll Rises as Bloodshed Spreads in Iraq," The New York Times, May 26, 2013
• "Afghanistan capital hit by deadly, huge bombing," CBS News, May 24, 2013
• "Iraqi tribal leaders demand federation," Al Jazeera English, May 20, 2013

Civil Liberties/ Human Rights

• "Why the Spying Scandal Is a Serious Racial Justice Issue," by Imara Jones, ColorLines, June 17, 2013
• "The NSA’s Spying Program: What’s at Stake for the Climate Movement?," by James Trimarco, Yes! Magazine, June 17, 2013
• "Obama and His Allies Say the Govt Doesn't Listen to Your Phone Calls -- But the FBI Begs to Differ," by Max Blumenthal, AlterNet, June 16, 2013
• "Going Through the ‘Proper Channels’ to Blow the Whistle on Secret Surveillance Programs," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, June 16, 2013
• "The Making of a Global Security State: The Five Uncontrollable Urges of a Secrecy-Surveillance World," by Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch, June 16, 2013
• "U.S. surveillance architecture includes collection of revealing Internet, phone metadata," Washington Post, June 15, 2013
• "Secret to Prism program: Even bigger data seizure," Associated Press, June 15, 2013
• "Pentagon bracing for public dissent over climate and energy shocks," by Nafeez Ahmed, Guardian/UK, June 14, 2013
• "NSA surveillance played little role in foiling terror plots, experts say," by Ed Pilkington & Nicholas Watt, Guardian/UK, June 12, 2013
• "5 things we still don’t know about the NSA “black hole”," by Justin Elliott & Theodoric Meyer, Salon, June 12, 2013
• "Activists push uphill to curtail NSA surveillance," by Ned Resnikoff, MSNBC, June 12, 2013
• "Senators push bill to declassify secret FISA surveillance rulings," The Hill, June 11, 2013
• "Massive spying on Americans is outrageous," by Coleen Rowlewy, CNN, June 11, 2013
• "One American Who Isn’t for Sale," by Robert Scheer, TruthDig, June 11, 2013
• "ACLU Sues Obama Administration Over NSA 'Dragnet' Surveillance Revealed in Historic Leaks," Common Dreams, June 11, 2013
• "What spying apologists don’t tell you about “thwarted plots”," by Marcy Wheeler, Salon, June 10, 2013
• "The Judicial Lynching of Bradley Manning," by Chris Hedges, TruthDig, June 9, 2013
• "Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data," by Glenn Greenwald & Ewen MacAskill, Guardian/UK, June 9, 2013
• "On whistleblowers and government threats of investigation," by Glenn Greenwald, Guardian/UK, June 7, 2013
• "All the Infrastructure a Tyrant Would Need, Courtesy of Bush and Obama," by Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, June 7, 2013
• "NSA Prism program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and others," by Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill , Guardian/UK, June 6, 2013
• "U.S. Says It Gathers Online Data Abroad," The New York Times, June 6, 2013
• "Total Protection Government," by David Bromwich, Huffington Post, June 6, 2013
• "Security expert: All Occupiers’ phones were logged," by Natasha Lennard, Salon, June 6, 2013
• "Obama’s unparalleled spy state," by Andrew Leonard, Salon, June 6, 2013
• "President Obama’s Dragnet," by The New York Times editorial, The New York Times, June 6, 2013
• "The US knows force-feeding hunger strikers at Guantánamo is illegal," by Ryan Goodman, Guardian/UK, June 5, 2013
• "Revealed: NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily," by Glenn Greenwald, Guardian/UK, June 5, 2013
• "Justices Allow Police to Take D.N.A. Samples After Arrests," The New York Times, June 3, 2013
• "Hand 'Em Over: Judge Rules Google Must Comply with FBI Demands for Customer Data," Common Dreams, June 1, 2013
• "Is Force-Feeding Torture?," by Joe Nocera, The New York Times, May 31, 2013
• "Judge orders Google to comply with FBI's secret NSL demands," by Declan McCullagh, CNet, May 31, 2013
• "The FBI’s Fishy Story on Killing Tsarnaev’s Friend," by Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive, May 30, 2013
• "If the Government Is Tracking Your Location or Reading Your Email, Would You Ever Know?," by Patrick C. Toomey, ACLU Blog of Rights, May 30, 2013
• "Obama's new FBI chief approved Bush's NSA warrantless wiretapping scheme," by Glenn Greenwald, Guardian/UK, May 30, 2013
• "Government Agrees to Destroy Information Seized from Bradley Manning Support Network Co-Founder," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, May 30, 2013
• "President Obama uses a sledgehammer against dissent," by Amy Goodman, Guardian/UK, May 30, 2013
• "New Rules May Rein In Prosecutors in Leak Investigations," by Charlie Savage, The New York Times, May 30, 2013
• "We’re Being Watched: How Corporations and Law Enforcement Are Spying on Environmentalists," by Adam Federman, Earth Island Journal, May 29, 2013
• "Hammond, Manning, Assange and Obama’s Sledgehammer Against Dissent," by Amy Goodman, TruthDig, May 29, 2013
• "Yes, Big Brother Is Watching You," by Tyler Bass, In These Times, May 29, 2013
• "Imprisoned CIA Torture Whistleblower John Kiriakou Pens “Letter from Loretto”," by Brian Sonenstein, Firedoglake, May 29, 2013
• "Silencing the Whistle-Blowers," by Eyal Press, The New York Times, May 27, 2013
• "UN Human Rights Chief Slams US Over Gitmo, 'War on Terror'," Common Dreams, May 27, 2013
• "Obama Justice Department: Criminalizing the Press Like the Bush Administration," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, May 26, 2013
• "Sweeping Leak Inquiries Reveal How Wide a Net U.S. Has Cast," The New York Times, May 25, 2013
• "Obama’s Gitmo Problem," by Joe Nocera, The New York Times, May 24, 2013
• "Why is Eric Holder In Charge of Oversight on Eric Holder's Surveillance of Journalists Policy?," by Trevor Timm, Freedom of the Press Foundation, May 24, 2013
• "Come Clean: Groups Demand Transparency from Attorney General Eric Holder," by Josh Stearns, Save the Internet, May 24, 2013
• "Obama Just Made Himself a Prisoner of His Own Gitmo Policy," by Spencer Ackerman, Wired, May 24, 2013
• "How the Government Targeted Occupy," by Lisa Graves, In These Times, May 21, 2013
• "DOJ's Pursuit of Fox News Journalist Deepens Outrage over Obama's War on Investigative Journalism," Common Dreams, May 20, 2013
• "Dissent as 'Terrorism': Targeting Public Protest in the Post-9/11 Era," Common Dreams, May 20, 2013
• "Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes," by Glenn Greenwald, Guardian/UK, May 20, 2013
• "Bearing Witness at Terrorism Trials," by Clyde Haberman, The New York Times, May 19, 2013
• "Chris Hedges: Monitoring of AP Phones a "Terrifying" Step in State Assault on Press Freedom," by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!, May 15, 2013
• "The major sea change in media discussions of Obama and civil liberties," by Glenn Greenwald, Guardian/UK, May 15, 2013
• "Justice Department's pursuit of AP's phone records is both extreme and dangerous," by Glenn Greenwald, Guardian/UK, May 14, 2013
• "Outrage Grows Over the DOJ Seizure of AP Phone Records," by Greg Mitchell, The Nation, May 14, 2013
• "The day the Obama administration went all Nixon on us," by Will Bunch, Philadelphia Inquirer, May 13, 2013
• "Justice Department Subpoena of AP Journalists Shows Need to Protect Calling Records," by Cindy Cohn , Kurt Opsahl and Nate Cardoza , Deeplinks Blog/Electronic Frontier Foundation, May 13, 2013
• "Phone Records of Journalists Seized by U.S.," The New York Times, May 13, 2013
• "While Congress Debates Immigration, Deportations Rage On," by Aura Bogado, The Nation, May 13, 2013
• " Associated Press: seizure of phone records an unprecedented intrusion," Guardian/UK, May 13, 2013
• "U.S. Secretly Obtains Two Months of A.P. Phone Records," Associated Press, May 13, 2013
• "Revised Guantanamo force-feed policy exposed," by Jason Leopold, Al Jazeera English, May 13, 2013

Environment and Sustainability

• "Toxic waste spill in northern Alberta biggest of recent disasters in North America," The Globe and Mail/Canada, June 12, 2013
• "Major Loss to Organic Farmers as Court Rules in Favor of Monsanto," Common Dreams, June 10, 2013
• "Humanity Imperiled: The Path to Disaster," by Tom Engelhardt & Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch, June 4, 2013
• "Climate change causing US wildfire season to last longer, Congress told," Guardian/UK, June 4, 2013
• "Fracking Tests Ties Between California ‘Oil and Ag’ Interests," The New York Times, June 1, 2013
• "Monsanto's 'Genetic Pollution' Threatens US Wheat Industry," Common Dreams, May 31, 2013
• "When will governments learn that GE crops are uncontrollable?," by Janet Cotter, Greenpeace Blog, May 31, 2013
• "Modified Wheat Discovered In Oregon," The New York Times, May 29, 2013
• "Monsanto Modified Wheat Not Approved by USDA Found in Field," Bloomberg News, May 29, 2013
• "Genetically modified salmon could pose threat: study," Montreal Gazette/Canada, May 28, 2013
• "Global Voices Reject Genetically Modified Seed Giant in March Against Monsanto," Common Dreams, May 25, 2013
• "Global majority faces water shortages 'within two generations'," Guardian/UK, May 24, 2013
• "Terracide and the Terrarists: Destroying the Planet for Record Profits," by Tom Engelhardt & Greg Grandin, TomDispatch, May 23, 2013
• "Climate change: human disaster looms, claims new research," Guardian/UK, May 19, 2013
• "Obama's Arctic strategy sets off a climate time bomb," by Nafeez Ahmed, Guardian/UK, May 17, 2013
• "We’ve Never Been Here Before: 400ppm of CO2 Measured in the Atmosphere at Mauna Loa," by Melanie Fitzpatrick, Union of Concerned Scientists, May 14, 2013
• " Monsanto and other GM firms are winning in the US – and globally," by Wenonah Hauter, Guardian/UK, May 14, 2013
• "Environmental Pollution and Children’s Health," by Cesar Chelala, Counterpunch, May 13, 2013
• " Supreme Court Supports Monsanto in Seed-Replication Case," The New York Times, May 13, 2013
• "Human Indifference on Climate Imperils 50,000 Species Worldwide: Study," Common Dreams, May 13, 2013
• "Corporate Win: Supreme Court Says Monsanto Has 'Control Over Product of Life'," Common Dreams, May 13, 2013

Media Issues

• "Big News Forges Its Own Path," by David Carr, The New York Times, June 16, 2013
• "David Brooks: The last Stalinist," by Corey Robin, Salon, June 11, 2013
• "A New Kind of Leaker for an Internet Age," by David Carr, The New York Times, June 10, 2013
• "Guardian Makes Waves, and Is Ready for More," The New York Times, June 10, 2013
• "Brian Williams Makes the Case for Putting NBC on Trial," by Jim Naureckas, Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, June 5, 2013
• "Astroturf Documentary FrackNation Is Tea-Party Backed Attack on Gasland 2," by Steve Horn, Firedoglake, June 3, 2013
• "‘We Steal Secrets’: State Agitprop," by Chris Hedges, TruthDig, June 2, 2013
• "Regret over Gary Webb’s Demise," by Robert Parry, Consortium News, June 1, 2013
• "Holder’s Off-the-Record Meetings with the Press: A Ploy Intended to Make a Public Relations Point," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, May 31, 2013
• "Chicago Sun-Times Lays Off All Its Full-Time Photographers," Associated Press, May 31, 2013
• "Will journalists take any steps to defend against attacks on press freedom?," by Glenn Greenwald, Guardian/UK, May 29, 2013
• "Media Gets Targeted by Obama, Discovers No One Cares Except the Media," by Bethania Palma Markus, Counterpunch, May 29, 2013
• "A Word from Our Sponsor: Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch," by Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, May 27, 2013
• "‘We Steal Secrets’ Documentary Focuses on Personalities of Assange, Manning Over Significance of WikiLeaks," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, May 23, 2013
• "The AP's Privacy, and Ours," by David Cole, The Nation, May 22, 2013
• "The Corporate Dictatorship of PBS and NPR," by Thom Hartmann, Truthout, May 22, 2013
• "Watchdogs: ABC “in danger of losing a lot of credibility” on Benghazi saga," by Alex Seitz-Wald, Salon, May 20, 2013
• "Report: Cable news guests are overwhelmingly male, exceedingly white," by Katie McDonough, Salon, May 13, 2013

Activism

• ""I Voted For Change": Over 20 Arrested as KXL Protests Target Obama," Common Dreams, June 17, 2013
• "Snowden saw what I saw: surveillance criminally subverting the constitution," by Thomas Drake, Guardian/UK, June 12, 2013
• "Edward Snowden: Profile in Courage," by Christopher H. Pyle, Common Dreams, June 10, 2013
• "Edward Snowden: saving us from the United Stasi of America," by Daniel Ellsberg, Guardian/UK, June 10, 2013
• "The Passion of Edward Snowden," by Chase Madar, The Nation, June 10, 2013
• "Historic Challenge to Support the Moral Actions of Edward Snowden," by Norman Solomon, Common Dreams, June 10, 2013
• "Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations," by Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill and Laura Poitras, Guardian/UK, June 8, 2013
• "Notes from an NYC Occupier in Taksim Square," by Nathan Schneider, Waging Nonviolence, June 3, 2013
• "Turkish protesters control Istanbul square after two days of clashes," Guardian/UK, June 2, 2013
• "Striking Back at the Sequester," by Eric Forman, In These Times, May 30, 2013
• "Student Organizations Under Assault," by Isabelle Nastasia and StudentNation , The Nation, May 29, 2013
• "Walmart Workers Launch First-Ever 'Prolonged Strikes' Today," by Josh Eidelson, The Nation, May 28, 2013
• "Why Tim DeChristopher Went to Prison for His Protest," by Bill Moyers, Moyers & Co., May 24, 2013
• "Why I Spoke Out at Obama's Foreign Policy Speech," by Medea Benjamin, The Nation, May 24, 2013
• "Homeowners Take the Foreclosure Fight to the DOJ," by Greg Kaufmann, The Nation, May 24, 2013
• "New Era for Labor: Creative Defiance From the Factory to the Street," by Laura Flanders, Truthout, May 20, 2013
• "Foreclosed Homeowners 'Move In' to the Dept. of Justice," Common Dreams, May 20, 2013
• "Rise Up or Die," by Chris Hedges, TruthDig, May 19, 2013
• "How the US Turned Three Pacifists into Violent Terrorists," by Fran Quigley, Common Dreams, May 15, 2013
• "Fast Food Strikes Hitting Fifth City: Milwaukee," by Josh Eidelson, The Nation, May 15, 2013
• "Occupy Offshoots Return to Highlight Student Tuition Hikes, Food Sovereignty," by Allison Kilkenny, The Nation, May 14, 2013
• "Violent repression can’t stop us — anywhere in the world," by George Lakey, Waging Nonviolence, May 14, 2013

This Week on Between The Lines

Posted Aug. 8, 2012 for week ending Aug. 17, 2012

This week’s summary of under-reported news

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Compiled by Bob Nixon

• A growing cooperative sector is re-emerging in hard-hit Spain, plagued by a banking crisis and 20 percent unemployment. ("Fostering a new co-op economy," Christian Science Monitor, June 25, 2012)
• The Natural Resources Defense Council reports that nearly 25,000 beaches were closed due to health precautions in 2010, the second highest number of closings since the green group started keeping count. But in the current budget crunch, the Obama administration is threatening to cut off state education grants to alert the public about health hazards in swimming areas. ("Unsafe for Swimming," E Magazine, July/August 2012)
• In April, the Government Accountability Office announced the Occupation Safety and Health Administration takes eight years on average to issue a new health standard. OSHA has only issued 11 new health regulations since 2000. ("OSHA rules on workplace toxics stalled," Center for Public Integrity, June 4, 2012)

 

Recent Shows

August

Week Ending Aug. 10, 2012

• James S. Henry:  New Report Finds Super Rich Around the World have Avoided Paying Taxes on More Than $21 Trillion of Hidden Wealth
• Dustin Steele:  Arrests at West Virginia Mountain Top Removal Coal Mine Signals New Phase of Direct Action Campaign
• Ted Lewis:  Caravan for Peace to Travel Across U.S., Focusing Attention on Mexico’s Drug War Violence

Week Ending Aug. 3, 2012

• Ron Jacobs:  East-West Geopolitical Battle Being Waged in Syrian Civil War
• Ladd Everitt:  After Aurora Shooting, Political Cowardice Prevents Revival of Assault Weapons Ban
• Joanne Landy:  Greek Anti-Austerity Movement Finds Political Voice in Syriza Party

July

Week Ending July 27, 2012

• Baher Azmy:  Eighty-Seven Guantanamo Detainees Cleared for Release Remain in Hopeless Legal Limbo
• Erez Krispin and Nour Shehada:  Former Israeli and Palestinian Combatants Oppose Israeli Government Panel Declaring West Bank Settlements Don't Violate International Law
• Marge Baker:  Senate Republicans Defeat Disclose Act Bill, Blocking Grassroots Drive for More Transparency in U.S. Elections

Week Ending July 20, 2012

• Sanjeev Bery:  Human Rights Group Calls for an Immediate International Arms Embargo Against Syria's Government
• Mark Hertsgaard:  On Behalf of Their Children, Parents' Group Steps Up to Confront Generational Consequences of Climate Change
• Robert Scheer:  International LIBOR Scandal is Latest Example of Financial Sector’s Culture of Corruption

Week Ending July 13, 2012

• Dr. Steffie Woolhandler:  After Supreme Court Upholds Obamacare, Single-Payer Advocates Vow to Continue Fight for Medicare For All
• Marc Mauer:  Supreme Court Ruling Bars Mandatory Life Sentences for Juveniles
• Bill Chandler:  Supreme Court Rejects Arizona's Pre-emption of Federal Immigration Law, But Upholds SB 1070's "Papers Please" Provision

Week Ending July 6, 2012

• Ellen Vollinger:  Congress Targets Food Stamp Program for Deep Cuts
• Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster:  Senate Hears Testimony that Prolonged Prison Solitary Confinement is Torture
• Coleen Rowley:  Fearing Extradition to US, WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Seeks Political Asylum in Ecuador's London Embassy

June

Week Ending June 29, 2012

• Phyllis Bennis:  Egyptian Military Consolidates Power as Muslim Brotherhood Claims Presidency
• William K. Black:  Federal Reserve Report Reveals Americans’ Dramatic Loss of Wealth Resulting from Financial Meltdown
• Lorella Praeli:  Apart from Obama's Executive Order, Young Undocumented Immigrants Continue Struggle for Path to Citizenship

Week Ending June 22, 2012

• Chris Toensing:  Syria's Uprising Descends into Civil War
• Matthew Rothschild:  Wisconsin Recall Election Defeat a Wakeup Call for Progressive and Labor Activists
• Elaine Kolb:  GOP Proposal to Cut $800 Billion from Medicaid Budget Focus of Disability Rights Protest

Week Ending June 15, 2012

• Seif Da'Na:  Days Before Egyptian Presidential Election, Court Sentences Mubarak, Ignites Massive Protest
• Richard Wolff:  Austerity Policies Fuel Eurozone Crisis, Growing Public Resistance
• Marilyn Mullens:  Women Against Mountain Top Removal Coal Mining Shave their Heads in Protest

Week Ending June 8, 2012

• Saher Francis:  Jailed Palestinian Hunger Strikers Win Concessions from Israelis on Improved Prison Conditions
• Andrew Gavin Marshall:  Quebec's Student Tuition Strike Grows into Massive Anti-Austerity Movement
• Richard Kirsch:  Millions of Americans' Access to Health Care Hinges on Supreme Court's Affordable Care Act Ruling

Week Ending June 1, 2012

• Carl J. Mayer:  Judge's Preliminary Injunction Bars Indefinite Military Detention of U.S. Citizens Under NDAA
• Pat Hunt:  Militarized Police Force and Terrorism Charges Greet NATO Protesters in Chicago
• Gary Holder-Winfield:  Connecticut Education Reform Law Aims to Close America's Worst Racial Achievement Gap

May

Week Ending May 25, 2012

• John Lewis:  In Historic Shift, Obama Declares His Support for Same Gender Marriage
• Laura Bozzi:  "Climate Impacts Day" Connects Dots Between Global Climate Change and Extreme Weather
• Matthew Rothschild:  Labor and Progressive Activists Work to Get Out the Vote for Wisconsin Recall Election June 5

Week Ending May 18, 2012

• Tom Hayden:  Obama Sends Mixed Messages in Speech on Future of Afghan War
• Mazin Qumsiyeh:  Palestinian Prisoner Hunger Strike Marks Renewed Emphasis on Nonviolent Resistance
• Bob Edgar:  Common Cause to IRS: Revoke Corporate Lobby Group ALEC’s Tax-Exempt, Charitable Status

Week Ending May 11, 2012

• Christian Ramirez:  U.S. Supreme Court Hears Arguments Challenging Constitutionality of Arizona's "Papers Please" Law
• Aaron Viles:  BP Oil Spill Disaster Fines to be Dedicated to Gulf Coast Wetlands Restoration
• Mark Bray:  Occupy Wall Street Movement Returns to the Streets in May Day Spring Revival

Week Ending May 4, 2012

• Jeremy Holden:  U.S. Network TV News Misleads on Iranian Nuclear Threat
• Dolores Huerta:  Farm Workers Union Co-Founder: Together Progressive Activists can Advance Social Justice in America
• Greg Palast:  Investigation Finds BP Covered Up Information on 2008 Blowout a Precursor to 2010 Gulf Coast Disaster

April

Week Ending April 27, 2012

• Lee Farris:  Tax Fairness Debate Takes Center Stage in Presidential Election Year
• Everette Thompson:  Amnesty International: Decades of Solitary Confinement at Louisiana’s Angola Prison Amounts to Torture
• Alex Main:  Summit of the Americas Highlights Latin Nations' Growing Independence from Washington

Week Ending April 20, 2012

• Baher Azmy:  Civil Liberties Advocates: Supreme Court Strip Search Ruling Could Lead to Systematic Police Abuse
• Richard Dieter:  Connecticut Poised to Become 17th State to End Capital Punishment; Executions in Decline in U.S.
• Rashad Robinson:  ColorofChange.org Succeeds in Pressuring Major Corporations to Resign from Right-wing Policy Group American Legislative Exchange Council

Week Ending April 13, 2012

• Jin Hee Lee:  Shooting Death of Trayvon Martin Provokes National Debate on Racial Profiling
• Chuck Nelson:  Federal Court Overturns EPA Revocation of Mountain Top Removal Coal Mine Permit
• John Cavanagh:  "99% Spring" Coalition of Unions, Students, Environmental Groups Organizing for Direct Action Protests

Week Ending April 6, 2012

• Dr. Margaret Flowers:  Single-Payer Advocates Favor High Court Overturning Obama Individual Mandate
• Medea Benjamin:  U.S. Peace Movement Regroups to Stop War with Iran
• U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer:  Bicyclists Organize to Battle Budget Freeze Out

March

Week Ending March 30, 2012

• Kathy Kelly:  U.S. Soldier's Murder of 16 Afghan Civilians Provokes Growing Anger Toward American Occupation
• Suzanne Nossel:  Amnesty International Report: Syrian Government Opponents Subjected to Systematic Torture
• Kambale Musavuli:  Critics Say Kony 2012 Campaign Offers Wrong Response to Central Africa's Complex Issues

Week Ending March 23, 2012

• Nathan Wessler:  Obama Administration Program that Assassinates U.S. Citizens Challenged in FOIA Lawsuit
• Terry O'Neill:  Rush Limbaugh’s Attack on Law Student Sandra Fluke Provokes Campaign to Shut Down His Show
• Keesha Gaskins:  Justice Department and Courts Block Restrictive Voting Laws Enacted in GOP-Controlled States

Week Ending March 16, 2012

• Melvin A. Goodman:  U.S. and Israel's Threats Could Lead to Unpredictable Military Confrontation with Iran
• Judy Tabar:  GOP Doubles Down on War Against Women's Access to Contraception
• Tyson Slocum:  Speculation and Exports Cause Latest Gas Price Spike

Week Ending March 9, 2012

• Chris Rude:  Obama Plan to Reform Corporate Tax Code Fails to Shift Larger Tax Burden onto Big Business
• Patty Blum:  U.S. Judge Clears Way for Deportation of Former El Salvadoran General for War Crimes
• Peter Montgomery:  GOP Presidential Candidates Revive Christian Right Culture War to Rally Its Extremist Base

Week Ending March 2, 2012

• Costas Panayotakis:  Greeks Resist Harsh Austerity Measures Imposed by Eurozone as Condition for New $172 Billion Bailout
• Shahid Buttar:  National Campaign Organizes to Overturn Provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act that Empowers Government to Indefinitely Detain American Citizens
• Patty Lovera:  Consumer Groups Demand Rigorous Government Study of Genetically Engineered Salmon's Hazards to Human Health

February

Week Ending Feb. 24, 2012

• Jamal Abdi:  Tensions Escalate as Israel and Iran Trade Charges in Embassy Bombings
• Rachel Goldenberg:  Rabbis' Group Fights for Rights of the Oppressed in Israel and the U.S.
• Jeff Clements:  2012 Campaign Spending Breaking New Records as Groups Fight to Overturn Supreme Court 'Corporate Personhood' Decision

Week Ending Feb. 17, 2012

• Richard Eskow:  After Years of Inaction, Obama Moves to Investigate Wall Street Role in Economic Collapse
• Bruce Hamilton:  Sierra Club Secretly Took $26 million from Natural Gas Industry for Campaign Against Coal-Fired Power Plants
• Theresa Moran:  New Wave of Anti-Union Legislation Launched with Passage of Indiana "Right-to-Work" Law

Week Ending Feb. 10, 2012

• Bob Edgar:  State-by-State Campaign Working for Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens United Decision
• Meghan Smith:  Obama Ruling on Access to Birth Control Provokes Attack from GOP and Religious Right
• Sandy Nurse:  The Occupy Movement Prepares for Spring Actions as 400 Arrested in Oakland

Week Ending Feb. 3, 2012

• Kevin Alexander Gray:  In 2012 GOP Primary Campaign, "Racist Dog Whistle" Sounds Like a Bullhorn
• Emily Bernhardt:  Study Finds Surface and Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Degrades Water Quality
• Josh Levy:  Cyber Activists Rise Up to Derail Proposed Federal Anti-Piracy Bills

January

Week Ending Jan. 27, 2012

• Muhammad Sahimi:  Assassination of Iranian Nuclear Scientists: A Provocation for War?
• Kevin Gosztola:  Bradley Manning Defense Team and Support Network Prepare for Court Martial
• Dedrick Muhammad:  Without Public Policy Change, America Headed for Increased Racial Inequality

Week Ending Jan. 20, 2012

• Shahid Buttar:  Breaking Campaign Pledge, Obama Signs Indefinite Detention into Law
• Mark Hays:  National Protest Actions will Oppose Supreme Court Ruling Granting "Corporate Personhood"
• Cindy Cohn:  Appeals Court Revives Lawsuit Challenging Warrantless Government Surveillance

Week Ending Jan. 13, 2012

• Gar Alperovitz:  Rising Economic Inequality Provokes Search for Practical, Democratic Alternatives
• Lynn Freeman:  Campaign to Recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Confident of Gathering Required Signatures Before Jan. 17th Deadline
• Jihan Nasser:  Palestinian Women's Center Overcomes Many Obstacles to Provide Technical Training to Those in Need

Week Ending Jan. 6, 2012

• Rainey Reitman:  Defense Lawyers Counter Claim of Harm to U.S. in Army Whistleblower Bradley Manning's Recent Hearing
• Rona Moran:  Website Exposes Companies that Profit from Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Land
• Robert Weil:  Wukan Village Revolt, Evidence of Growing Social Unrest in China

December

Week Ending Dec. 30, 2011

• Joshua Landis:  Arab League Intervenes as Syrian Uprising on Verge of Civil War
• Ian Finkenbinder:  West Coast Port Shutdown Tests Occupy Wall Street-Union Relations
• Cindy Sheehan:  Cindy Sheehan Reflects on the Cost and Legacy of the Iraq War

Week Ending Dec. 23, 2011

• Daphne Wysham:  Durban Climate Change Conference Averts Collapse, Negotiations on New Treaty Delayed
• Paul Billings:  Federal Clean Air Standards That Could Save Thousands of Lives is Under Attack
• April Tyler:  National Campaign Launched to Challenge GOP Efforts to Suppress Voting Rights

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