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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."

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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.

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 BTL Blog

"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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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

• "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
• "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
• "As IRS Scandal Spirals, Progressives Defend Rights 'Even the Tea Party Deserves'," Common Dreams, 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
• "Obama in Plunderland: Down the Corporate Rabbit Hole," by Norman Solomon, NormanSolomon.com, May 9, 2013
• "Now They Want to Take Away the 8-Hour Day and 40-Hour Week," by Dave Johnson, Truthout, May 7, 2013
• "Obama’s plutocratic choice for Commerce Secretary," by Steven Rosenfeld, Salon, May 7, 2013
• "Everything We Know About What’s Happened Under Sequestration," by Theodoric Meyer, ProPublica, May 7, 2013
• "Obama Did It for the Money," by Robert Scheer, TruthDig, May 7, 2013
• "So, why are we so loyal to a president who is not loyal to us?," by Gary Younge, Guardian/UK, May 5, 2013
• "Almost Half of Americans Say Budget Cuts Will Hurt Economy," The New York Times, May 1, 2013
• "The Last Lost Cause," by Jeremy Kessler, Jacobin, May 1, 2013
• "Calling Out 'Crimes' of Obama, 31 Arrested Blockading NY Drone Base," by Jacob Chamberlain, Common Dreams, April 29, 2013
• "Sequestration 101: If a Budget Cut Doesn't Impact the Wealthy, Congress Won't Fix It," by Bryce Covert, The Nation, April 28, 2013
• "The rightwing donors who fuel America's culture wars," by Katherine Stewart, Guardian/UK, April 23, 2013
• "Exit Wall Street–Friendly Baucus, Enter Populist Schweitzer?," by John Nichols, The Nation, April 23, 2013
• "In Gun Bill Defeat, a President’s Distaste for Twisting Arms," The New York Times, April 22, 2013
• "The Xenophobe Party," by Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog, April 22, 2013
• "American Right-Wingers Are No Longer Conservative — They're Extremists," by Joshua Holland, AlterNet, April 17, 2013
• "Gun Control Package Nears the Tipping Point," by George Zornick, The Nation, April 16, 2013
• "Get Rich or Deny Trying: How to make millions off Obama," by Noam Scheiber, The New Republic, April 15, 2013
• "The Budget Speech Obama Didn't Give," by Robert Kuttner, Huffington Post, April 14, 2013
• "Top 5 Myths About Chained-CPI, Debunked," by George Zornick, The Nation, April 11, 2013
• "GOP’s Not-So-Shocking “Shocking Attack” On Obama’s Chained-CPI Cuts," by Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's Future, April 10, 2013
• "Bi-Partisanship We Don’t Need: The President Offers to Cut Social Security and Republicans Agree," by Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog, April 9, 2013
• "Obama Wants to Be the President Who Rolled Back the New Deal," by Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism, April 7, 2013
• "Obama’s Social Security Cuts Are Our Wake-Up Call," by Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's Future, April 7, 2013
• "#ChainedCPI? For Every Social Security Judas, a Primary Challenge," by Robert Naiman, Truthout, April 6, 2013
• "Destroying the Economy and the Democrats," by Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect, April 5, 2013
• "Obama Budget to Include Cuts to Programs in Hopes of Deal," The New York Times, April 5, 2013
• "The Rising American Electorate Sinking Together," by Robert Borosage, Campaign for America's Future, April 3, 2013
• "Mr. President, you won the election, not them!," by Joan Walsh, Salon, April 1, 2013
• "What Could Happen if Democrats Put Deficits First, Economy Second," by Robert Kuttner, Huffington Post, March 31, 2013
• "Progressive Lawmakers Unveil Alternative Budget: Tax the Rich, Cut the Pentagon," by Sam Knight, Truthout, March 14, 2013
• "Recess Appointments Ruling to Be Appealed," The New York Times, March 12, 2013
• "True Aim of Deficit Scare-Mongering: To Gut Social Security and Medicare," by Ellen Frank, Dollars & Sense, March 11, 2013
• "The Threat of an Imperial Presidency," by Tom Hayden, The Nation, March 11, 2013
• "Lockheed Martin's Herculean Efforts to Profit From Defense Spending: The Epic Story of the C-130," by Nick Turse & Jeremiah Goulka, TomDispatch, March 10, 2013
• "Jack Lew, Citigroup and the Ugland Truth," by Michael Winship, Common Dreams, March 8, 2013
• "A President Who’ll Cut Social Security – And Liberals Who Love Him Too Much," by Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's Future, March 8, 2013
• "Blocked Bids to Fill Judgeships Stir New Fight on Filibuster," The New York Times, March 8, 2013
• "Burwell as Obama's budget director: Walmart wins, working families lose," by Bertha Lewis, Guardian/UK, March 7, 2013
• "Shadowy Group at the Root of US Wage Suppression: Who Else But ALEC?," Common Dreams, March 7, 2013
• "Rand Paul’s Filibuster of John Brennan," by Amy Goodman, TruthDig, March 6, 2013
• "Obama's Budget Chief Nominee Led Walmart's Targeted Giving," by Josh Eidelson and Lee Fang, The Nation, March 4, 2013
• "Nothing New Under the Wingnut Sun: Reckless Spending Cuts," by Rick Perlstein, The Nation, March 4, 2013
• "Republicans move to avoid government shutdown," Reuters, March 4, 2013
• "Big Monied Education 'Reform' Groups Flood Los Angeles School Board Race," Common Dreams, March 4, 2013
• "Why Are Walmart Billionaires Bankrolling Phony School ‘Reform’ In LA?," by Peter Dreier, Common Dreams, March 3, 2013
• "Welfare for the Medical-Industrial Complex," by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, March 2, 2013
• "Michigan's Shock Doctrine Continues: Governor Appoints Emergency Manager for Detroit," Common Dreams, March 1, 2013

Economy

• "Apple’s Web of Tax Shelters Saved It Billions, Panel Finds," The New York Times, May 20, 2013
• "Enabling Greed Makes U.S. Sick," by Bill Moyers & Michael Winship, Move Over AIPAC, May 20, 2013
• "Global Capital and the Nation State," by Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog, 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
• "How the Case for Austerity Has Crumbled," by Paul Krugman, New York Review of Books, May 14, 2013
• "Deadly Manufacturing Mirage, Green-Red Alternative," by Paul Street, ZNet, 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
• "How Austerity Kills," by David Stuckler & Sanjay Basu, The New York Times, May 12, 2013
• "Ayn Rand USA: In 20 Years Corporate Profits Are Up 4X and Their Taxes Have Fallen by 50% -- Meanwhile the Workers' Payroll Tax Has Doubled," by Paul Buchheit, AlterNet, May 12, 2013
• "Student Debt and the Crushing of the American Dream," by Joseph E. Stiglitz, The New York Times, May 12, 2013
• "Corporations, Humans and Taxes," by Christopher Brauchli, Common Dreams, May 11, 2013
• "As Death Toll in Bangladesh Collapse Climbs Past 1,000, Another Factory Fire Claims 8 Lives," by Michelle Chen, In These Times, May 10, 2013
• "A New Era for Worker Ownership, 5 Years in the Making," by Kari Lydersen, In These Times, May 9, 2013
• "Social Security's Explosive Injustices," by Richard D. Wolff, Truthout, May 7, 2013
• "Bangladesh Factory Upgrades Could Cost Consumers As Little As 10 Cents Per Garment," by Bryce Covert, Think Progress, May 7, 2013
• "Neither Admit Nor Deny: Big Business Allowed To Pay Millions to Avoid Jail," by Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch, May 5, 2013
• "Worker Safety in Bangladesh and Beyond," by The New York Times editorial, The New York Times, May 4, 2013
• "Austerity Is 'Suffocating the Economy'," by John Nichols, The Nation, May 3, 2013
• "The Bite of Apple: Firm Dodges Enough Taxes To Cover Much of Sequester," by Isaiah J. Poole, Campaign for America's Future, May 3, 2013
• "The Idled Young Americans," by David Leonhardt, The New York Times, May 3, 2013
• "'Deficit Hawk' CEOs Pocket Hundreds of Millions with Tax Loopholes," by Lauren McCauley, Common Dreams, May 2, 2013
• "Central Bank Takes Step as Europe’s Downturn Drags On," The New York Times, May 2, 2013
• "Some Retailers Rethink Role in Bangladesh," by Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times, May 1, 2013
• "The Bangladesh factory tragedy and the moralists of sweatshop economics," by Maha Rafi Atal, Guardian/UK, April 29, 2013
• "No Rich Child Left Behind," by Sean F. Reardon, The New York Times, April 27, 2013
• "The Best Union in the World Goes on Strike," by David Macaray, Counterpunch, April 23, 2013
• "How Capitalism Is Dismembering America," by Paul Buchheit, Common Dreams, April 22, 2013
• "NYT Uses News Story to Express Dislike of Danish Welfare State," by Dean Baker, Firedoglake, April 21, 2013
• "Our Feelings About Inequality: It’s Complicated," by Ilyana Kuziemko & Stefanie Stantcheva, The New York Times, April 21, 2013
• "Report Shows More New Yorkers Are Near Poverty," The New York Times, April 21, 2013
• "Did a Spreadsheet Error Cost You Your Job?," by Dean Baker, Yahoo! Finance, April 21, 2013
• "Impact of Economic Crises on People’s Health," by César Chelala, Common Dreams, April 20, 2013
• "A Tax System for the 99 Percent," by Robin Broad & John Cavanagh, Yes! Magazine, April 17, 2013
• "Momentum Builds in U.S., Beyond to End Corporate Tax Evasion," Inter Press Service, April 16, 2013
• "Why This is the Worst Recovery on Record," by Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog, April 15, 2013
• "Sweatshops on Wheels," by Chris Hedges, TruthDig, April 15, 2013
• "The truth about extreme global inequality," by Jason Hickel, Al Jazeera English, April 14, 2013
• "Solidarity NOT Forever: How the Supreme Court Kicked Retirees Into the Gutter," by Ann Hodges & Ellen Dannin, Truthout, April 11, 2013
• "Foreclosure Review Report Shows That the OCC Continues to Bury Wall Street’s Bodies," by Alexis Goldstein, The Nation, April 10, 2013
• "Down Is a Dangerous Direction: How the 40-Year "Long Recession" Led to the Great Recession," by Andy Kroll & Barbara Garson, TomDispatch, April 9, 2013
• "America Officially Dickensian, Jailing People for Years for Unpaid Debt," by Kathleen Geier, Washington Monthly, April 8, 2013
• "The Press and Public Are Contained if Not the Arkansas Oil Spill," by William Boardman, Reader Supported News, April 8, 2013
• "The Corporate Betrayal of America," by Paul Buchheit, Common Dreams, April 8, 2013
• "7 Chilling Facts About Retirement in America That Should Make Obama Tremble Before Cutting Social Security and Medicare," by Lynn Parramore, AlterNet, April 7, 2013
• "The Long Depression," by Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's Future, April 3, 2013
• "Novartis patent ruling a victory in battle for affordable medicines," by Sarah Boseley, Guardian/UK, April 1, 2013
• "The People’s Bank," by Abby Rapoport, The American Prospect, April 1, 2013
• "How ‘This American Life’ Got Disability Wrong," by Michelle Chen, In These Times, March 28, 2013
• "The Myth of the Overpaid Public Worker," by David Moberg, In These Times, March 12, 2013
• "Too Big to Jail," by Leo Gerard, In These Times, March 12, 2013
• "If Corporations Don’t Pay Taxes, Why Should You?," by Robert Scheer, TruthDig, March 12, 2013
• "Corporate-Approved State Bills Kick Low-Wage Workers While They’re Down," by Michelle Chen, In These Times, March 11, 2013
• "A Dangerous ‘New Normal’ in College Debt," by Charles M. Blow, The New York Times, March 8, 2013
• "It’s Official: Banks Too Big to Fail are Too Big to Jail," by Robert Borosage, Campaign for America's Future, March 7, 2013
• "This viral video is right: We need to worry about wealth inequality," by Ezra Klein, Washington Post, March 6, 2013
• "One Economy, Two Americas," by Hedrick Smith, BillMoyers.com, March 6, 2013
• "Economic Stimulus Done Right: New Bill Would Raise Minimum Wage to $10.10," by Mijin Cha, Demos, March 5, 2013
• "Corporate Profits Have Risen Almost 20 Times Faster Than Workers’ Incomes Since 2008," by Travis Waldron, Think Progress, March 4, 2013
• "Billionaire Speculators' Greed Makes Life Hard For Renters and Would-Be Homebuyers," by Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet, March 3, 2013
• "Swiss Voters Approve a Plan to Severely Limit Executive Compensation," The New York Times, March 3, 2013
• " Recovery in U.S. Is Lifting Profits, but Not Adding Jobs," The New York Times, March 3, 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

• "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
• "Nuclear Terror in the Middle East: Lethality Beyond the Pale," by Tom Engelhardt & Nick Turse, TomDispatch, May 12, 2013
• "Ronald Reagan: Accessory to Genocide," by Robert Parry, Consortium News, May 11, 2013
• "Dirty Wars, Filthy Hands: 5 Unsavory Ways America Conducts Its Global War on Terror," by Alex Kane, AlterNet, May 10, 2013
• "Keller and Mindlessness," by Jim Lobe, Lobe Log, May 7, 2013
• "And Then There Was One: Imperial Gigantism and the Decline of Planet Earth," by Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch, May 7, 2013
• "Israel's Bombs Invite Obama to Join a War Against Syria," by Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation, May 6, 2013
• "Israeli bombing of Syria and moral relativism," by Glenn Greenwald, Guardian/UK, May 6, 2013
• "America's Words of Peace and Acts of War," by David Bromwich, Huffington Post, May 5, 2013
• "The World Is a Battlefield: Jeremy Scahill on "Dirty Wars" and Obama's Expanding Drone Attacks," by Jeremy Scahill, Democracy Now!, April 24, 2013
• "Inside America's Dirty Wars," by Jeremy Scahill, The Nation, April 24, 2013
• "The same motive for anti-US 'terrorism' is cited over and over," by Glenn Greenwald, Guardian/UK, April 24, 2013
• "The Secret Story Behind Obama's Assassination of Two Americans in Yemen," by Jeremy Scahill, Democracy Now!, April 23, 2013
• "Filling the Empty Battlefield: Jeremy Scahill, Blowback Reporter," by Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch, April 23, 2013
• "Cluster Bombs: 277 Million Boston Bombings," by Robert Scheer, TruthDig, April 23, 2013
• "Yemeni Testifies at Senate Drone Hearing on Human Cost of US Drone Wars," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, April 23, 2013
• "The United States shows its contempt for Venezuelan democracy," by Mark Weisbrot, Guardian/UK, April 22, 2013
• "Chechen Terrorists and the Neocons," by Coleen Rowley, Antiwar.com, April 22, 2013
• "US Resumes Trend of Drone Attacks on Yemen," Common Dreams, April 21, 2013
• "U.S. Helps Push Privatization Scheme in El Salvador," by Hillary Goodfriend, Dollars & Sense, April 20, 2013
• "The US Continues to Undermine Democracy in Venezuela," by Daniel Kovalik, Counterpunch, April 19, 2013
• "It Doesn't Take Much: On Almost Getting PTSD in Iraq," by Tom Engelhardt & Jeremiah Goulka, TomDispatch, April 16, 2013
• "In Swat Valley, U.S. drone strikes radicalizing a new generation," CNN, April 15, 2013
• "The Enemy-Industrial Complex," by Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch, April 14, 2013
• "USAID's Dubious Allies in Paraguay," by Natalia Viana, The Nation, April 10, 2013
• "Anonymous Murder from a Safe Distance," by William Pfaff, Chicago Tribune, April 10, 2013
• "WikiLeaks Strikes Again: Website Publishes 1.7 Million Documents on U.S. Foreign Policy," by Alex Kane, AlterNet, April 8, 2013
• "Targeted Killing Comes to Define War on Terror," by Scott Shane, The New York Times, April 7, 2013
• "What a Third Korean war Would Look Like," by Eric Margolis, EricMargolis.com, April 6, 2013
• "The Fallacy of ‘Tough-Guy-ism’," by Paul Pillar, Consortium News, March 31, 2013
• "Obama Walks the High Wire, Eyes Closed: When It Comes to Israel, Palestine, and Iran, It Could All Come Crashing Down," by Tom Engelhardt & Ira Chernus, TomDispatch, March 31, 2013
• "Will Congress act to stop US support for Honduras' death squad regime?," by Mark Weisbrot, Guardian/UK, March 30, 2013
• "War Risk Rises Sharply in Korea," by Eric Margolis, EricMargolis.com, March 30, 2013
• "My Lai 45 Years Later—And the Unknown Atrocities of Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan," by Nick Turse, Daily Beast, March 16, 2013
• "Chavez: Lest We Forget," by Conn Hallinan, Counterpunch, March 12, 2013
• "Hugo Chavez depicted as tyrant for challenging western oil domination," by Linda McQuaig, Toronto Star/Canada, March 12, 2013
• "Chavez: Washington Nemesis, Latin American Hero," by Laura Carlsen, Foreign Policy in Focus, March 12, 2013
• "A More Independent South America and the Chávez Legacy," by Mark Weisbrot, Al Jazeera English, March 6, 2013
• "Doctor: Children 'Traumatized and Re-Traumatized by Drones' in Yemen," Common Dreams, March 6, 2013
• "U.S. commander seeks to ease human-rights rules that limit training," Reuters, March 6, 2013
• "Latin America After Chávez," by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, The New York Times, March 6, 2013
• "On the Legacy of Hugo Chávez," by Greg Grandin, The Nation, March 5, 2013
• "Egypt on the Brink," by Juan Cole, TruthDig, March 3, 2013
• "The CIA Is Training Syria's Rebels: Uh-Oh, Says a Top Iraqi Leader," by Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation, March 1, 2013

"Postwar" Occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan

• "Iraqi tribal leaders demand federation," Al Jazeera English, May 20, 2013
• "Afghans Say an American Tortured Civilians," The New York Times, May 12, 2013
• "The Civil War in Iraq has Already Begun," by Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch, May 6, 2013
• "'Mission Unaccomplished': Iraq 'One of the World's Most Neglected Crises'," by Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams, May 1, 2013
• "Afghan Leader Confirms Cash Deliveries by C.I.A.," The New York Times, April 29, 2013
• "Iraq’s Bloody Monday: 75 Killed, 356 Wounded," Antiwar.com, April 15, 2013
• "The Great Afghan Corruption Scam: How Operation Enduring Freedom Mutated into Operation Enduring Corruption," by Tom Engelhardt & Dilip Hiro, TomDispatch, April 2, 2013
• "The message sent by America's invisible victims," by Glenn Greenwald, Guardian/UK, March 31, 2013
• "Iraq, Afghanistan Wars Will Cost U.S. 4-6 Trillion Dollars: Report," by Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service, March 30, 2013
• "10 Years After Iraq Invasion: Continued Myths, Hundreds of Thousands Killed," Common Dreams, March 18, 2013
• "The Mother of all Battles," by Eric Margolis, EricMargolis.com, March 16, 2013
• "Iraq: War's legacy of cancer," by Dahr Jamail, Al Jazeera English, March 15, 2013
• "Lessons to be learnt from the Iraq War," by Richard Falk, Al Jazeera English, March 14, 2013
• "Iraq, Ten Years Later: What About the Constitution?," by Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker, March 14, 2013
• "Karzai’s Bet: Vilifying U.S.," by Alissa J. Rubin, The New York Times, March 12, 2013
• "Karzai accuses Taliban of Serving US Interests, Slams (Non-Existent) US-Taliban Talks," by Juan Cole, Informed Comment, March 11, 2013
• "The Crucifixion of Tomas Young," by Chris Hedges, TruthDig, March 10, 2013
• "Transfer of U.S. prison to Afghans delayed again," Associated Press, March 9, 2013
• "Mission Unaccomplished: Why the Invasion of Iraq Was the Single Worst Foreign Policy Decision in American History," by Tom Engelhardt & Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch, March 7, 2013
• "Afghanistan a Minefield for the Innocent," Inter Press Service, March 7, 2013
• "How the World Forgot About Iraq," by Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch, March 4, 2013

Civil Liberties/ Human Rights

• "Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes," by Glenn Greenwald, Guardian/UK, May 20, 2013
• "Dissent as 'Terrorism': Targeting Public Protest in the Post-9/11 Era," Common Dreams, May 20, 2013
• "DOJ's Pursuit of Fox News Journalist Deepens Outrage over Obama's War on Investigative Journalism," Common Dreams, 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
• "Outrage Grows Over the DOJ Seizure of AP Phone Records," by Greg Mitchell, The Nation, May 14, 2013
• "Justice Department's pursuit of AP's phone records is both extreme and dangerous," by Glenn Greenwald, Guardian/UK, May 14, 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
• "While Congress Debates Immigration, Deportations Rage On," by Aura Bogado, The Nation, May 13, 2013
• "Phone Records of Journalists Seized by U.S.," The New York Times, 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
• "The day the Obama administration went all Nixon on us," by Will Bunch, Philadelphia Inquirer, May 13, 2013
• "Officers Reportedly Beat California Man to Death as He Begs for His Life," by Brett Wilkins, Digital Journal, May 10, 2013
• "Homeland Insecurity: Seven Years, Untold Dollars to Silence One Man," by Tom Engelhardt & Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch, May 9, 2013
• "Former Gitmo Prosecutor Urges Obama to Close Shadowy Military Prison," Common Dreams, May 6, 2013
• "What the Framing of a Terror Suspect Says About GOP Attacks on Due Process," by Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, May 6, 2013
• "Lockdown, USA: Lessons From the Boston Marathon Manhunt," by Henry A Giroux, Truthout, May 6, 2013
• "Remote Control: Our Drone Delusion," by Steve Coll, The New Yorker, May 6, 2013
• "New Report Blows the Lid Off America's Recent History of Torture," by Sheldon Richman, Reason, May 5, 2013
• "Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government?," by Glenn Greenwald, Guardian/UK, May 4, 2013
• "The bad joke called 'the FISA court' shows how a 'drone court' would work," by Glenn Greenwald, Guardian/UK, May 3, 2013
• "Eloquent But Unconvincing: President Obama's Response to the Guantanamo Hunger Strike," by Andy Worthington, Future of Freedom Foundation, May 3, 2013
• "Surveillance State Unchecked: Secret Spy Court Rejected Zero Requests in 2012," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, May 2, 2013
• "The Ethics of Force-Feeding Inmates," The New York Times, May 1, 2013
• "Report: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's repeated requests for a lawyer were ignored," by Glenn Greenwald, Guardian/UK, April 29, 2013
• "Six Whistleblowers Charged Under the Espionage Act," by John Light and Lauren Feeney, Moyers & Co., April 26, 2013
• "Noam Chomsky: Smoke and Mirrors, or Civil Liberties Under President Obama," by Michael Stivers, Truthout, April 24, 2013
• "G.O.P. Lawmakers Push to Have Boston Suspect Questioned as Enemy Combatant," by Charlie Savage, The New York Times, April 21, 2013
• "British Prisoner Shaker Aamer May Die in Guantanamo Because of Secret Detention Deal," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, April 21, 2013
• "Shaker Aamer: 'I want to hug my children and watch them as they grow'," by Shaker Aamer, Observer/UK, April 20, 2013
• "Guantanamo Bay: why can't Shaker Aamer return home to London?," Guardian/UK, April 20, 2013
• "Debate Over Delaying of Miranda Warning," by Charlie Savage, The New York Times, April 20, 2013
• "How Boston exposes America's dark post-9/11 bargain," by Andrew O'Hehir, Salon, April 20, 2013
• "What rights should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get and why does it matter?," by Glenn Greenwald, Guardian/UK, April 20, 2013
• "No Charges for Police Commanders Over Actions During Protests," The New York Times, April 19, 2013
• "Why Should I Care That No One’s Reading Dzhokhar Tsarnaev His Miranda Rights?," by Emily Bazelon, Slate, April 19, 2013
• "Making the Indisputable Fact the US Engaged in Torture a Part of Consensus in Washington," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, April 18, 2013
• "The Gitmo Hunger Strike May Be the Biggest Act of Civil Disobedience in the Camp's History," by Adam Serwer, Mother Jones, April 17, 2013
• "Guantánamo Continues To Be a Stain in US’ Reputation," by César Chelala, Common Dreams, April 15, 2013
• "Hunger Striking at Guantanamo Bay: Gitmo Is Killing Me," by Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel, The New York Times, April 14, 2013
• "Can We Have a Discussion About Releasing the Majority of the Guantanamo Prisoners?," by Andy Worthington, Future of Freedom Foundation, April 12, 2013
• "‘The Nightmare Has Started Again,’ According to Hunger Striking Guantanamo Prisoner," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, April 11, 2013
• "Where Accountability Goes to Die: Guantánamo and the APA," by Trudy Bond, Roy Eidelson & Stephen Soldz, Counterpunch, April 11, 2013
• "The Hijacking of Human Rights," by Chris Hedges, TruthDig, April 7, 2013
• "Daniel McGowan Back in Jail Days After Writing About His Secretive Prison Unit for Huffington Post," by Will Potter, Green is the New Red, April 4, 2013
• "Suddenly, NYPD doesn’t love surveillance anymore," by David Sirota, Salon, April 2, 2013
• "Chris Hedges Resigns From Human Rights Organization PEN," by William Pfaff, Common Dreams, April 2, 2013
• "Camp Nama: British personnel reveal horrors of secret US base in Baghdad," Guardian/UK, April 1, 2013
• "U.S. Cooption of the Human Rights Movement Continues," by John V. Walsh and Coleen Rowley, Dissident Voice, April 1, 2013
• "Domestic drones and their unique dangers," by Glenn Greenwald, Guardian/UK, March 29, 2013
• "The fun-filled ocean resort at Guantánamo Bay," by Glenn Greenwald, Guardian/UK, March 28, 2013
• "The Shame of America’s Gulag," by Chris Hedges, TruthDig, March 17, 2013
• "Bureaucracy v. Bradley Manning," by Lawrence Davidson, Consortium News, March 15, 2013
• "Starving for Justice at Guantanamo," by Amy Goodman, TruthDig, March 13, 2013
• "Over 100 Guantánamo Hunger Strikers Protest Cruelty of Indefinite Detention," Common Dreams, March 12, 2013
• "Manning Statement Audio Leaked in Opposition to 'Extreme Secrecy in Our Courts'," Common Dreams, March 12, 2013
• "Hunger strike at Guantanamo after Koran searches," Agence France Presse, March 11, 2013
• " FOIA Requests Being Denied More Due To Security Reasons Than Any Time Since Obama Took Office," Associated Press, March 11, 2013
• "NYPD surveillance had ‘devastating’ impact on Muslim communities: report," Raw Story, March 11, 2013
• "The Climate of Fear Created by the NYPD’s Pervasive Surveillance of Muslim Communities," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, March 11, 2013
• "Chief of Iraq Torture Commandos: “The Americans knew about everything I did”," by Jeff Kaye, Firedoglake, March 9, 2013
• "Visions of Drones Swarming U.S. Skies Hit Bipartisan Nerve," The New York Times, March 8, 2013
• "Abu Ghraib Revisited," by Robert C. Koehler, Common Dreams, March 7, 2013
• "Obama promised to close Guantánamo. Instead, he's made it worse," by Murtaza Hussain, Guardian/UK, March 6, 2013
• "Guantanamo Prisoners on Hunger Strike Against New Guard Force for Confiscating Personal Items," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, March 4, 2013
• "We Are Bradley Manning," by Chris Hedges, TruthDig, March 3, 2013

Environment and Sustainability

• "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
• " Monsanto and other GM firms are winning in the US – and globally," by Wenonah Hauter, Guardian/UK, May 14, 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
• "Human Indifference on Climate Imperils 50,000 Species Worldwide: Study," Common Dreams, May 13, 2013
• " Supreme Court Supports Monsanto in Seed-Replication Case," The New York Times, May 13, 2013
• "Environmental Pollution and Children’s Health," by Cesar Chelala, Counterpunch, May 13, 2013
• "Corporate Win: Supreme Court Says Monsanto Has 'Control Over Product of Life'," Common Dreams, May 13, 2013
• "Buzz! Buzz! Silence: Big Bee Colony Die-Off This Past Winter," Common Dreams, May 7, 2013
• "Climate Change's 'Evil Twin': Ocean Acidification," Common Dreams, May 6, 2013
• "5 Critical Actions Obama Needs to Take Right Now to Avert Massive Climate Disruption," by Michael Brune, AlterNet, May 6, 2013
• "Report: Toxic Chemicals Found in Thousands of Children's Products," by Lauren McCauley, Common Dreams, May 1, 2013
• "Europe Bans Pesticides Thought Harmful to Bees," The New York Times, April 29, 2013
• "Tainted Water Poses New Risks at Japan Reactor," The New York Times, April 29, 2013
• "You Are a Guinea Pig: How Americans Became Exposed to Biohazards in the Greatest Uncontrolled Experiment Ever Launched," by Nick Turse, David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz, TomDispatch, April 28, 2013
• "How much does EPA’s objection to Keystone XL matter? A lot.," by Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post, April 23, 2013
• "Report: Renewables Could Power Nearly All US Energy Usage by 2050," Common Dreams, April 23, 2013
• "Falling prices for renewable energy could lead to a tripling of investment," by John Upton, Grist, April 23, 2013
• "Report: Deadly Human-Made 'Cocktail' Threatening World's Pollinators," Common Dreams, April 23, 2013
• "Chorus of Voices Demands Justice Three Years After BP Gulf Disaster," Common Dreams, April 20, 2013
• "How your pension is being used in a $6 trillion climate gamble," by Bill McKibben and Jeremy Leggett , Guardian/UK, April 19, 2013
• "Study: $6 Trillion "Carbon Bubble" Will Burn Investors and Planet Earth," Common Dreams, April 19, 2013
• "How Monsanto Went From Selling Aspirin to Controlling Our Food Supply," by Jill Richardson, AlterNet, April 18, 2013
• "Keystone XL's Impact Statement: How Stupid Do They Think We Are?," by John Atcheson, Common Dreams, April 9, 2013
• "Climate change included in US science teaching guidelines for the first time," Guardian/UK, April 9, 2013
• "Climate Change to Bring 'Superstorm Sandys' to Europe," Common Dreams, April 8, 2013
• "Is the Keystone XL Pipeline the “Stonewall” of the Climate Movement?," by Tom Engelhardt & Bill McKibben, TomDispatch, April 7, 2013
• "Monsanto Protection Act put GM companies above the federal courts," by John Vidal, Guardian/UK, April 4, 2013
• "Water for Profit: Seizing Climate Change as a Chance to Corporatize the Commons," Common Dreams, April 3, 2013
• "Monsanto: A Corporate Profile," Food & Water Watch, April 3, 2013
• "Chemical Disasters, Agent Orange, and GMOs: Monsanto's Legacy Traced in Exposé," Common Dreams, April 3, 2013
• "UK rewards polluters and locks up people who want to save the planet," by Andrew Simms, Guardian/UK, April 3, 2013
• "Why Do G.M.O.’s Need Protection?," by Mark Bittman, The New York Times, April 2, 2013
• "Fukushima meltdown appears to have sickened American infants," by John Upton, Grist, April 1, 2013
• "Tar sands spill in Arkansas is a warning of the risks of tar sands pipelines," by Anthony Swift, National Resources Defense Council, April 1, 2013
• "Exxon cleans up Arkansas oil spill; Keystone plan assailed," Reuters, March 31, 2013
• "IMF says global subsidies to fossil fuels amount to $1.9 trillion a year … and that’s probably an underestimate," by David Roberts, Grist, March 28, 2013
• "State Department Keystone XL Study Done by Oil Industry-Connected Firm with Big Tobacco, Fracking Ties," by Steve Horn, Firedoglake, March 12, 2013
• "Earth Hurtling Towards Temperatures Not Seen in 11,000 Years," Common Dreams, March 8, 2013
• "'State Department’ Keystone XL Report Actually Written By TransCanada Contractor," by Brad Johnson, Grist, March 6, 2013
• "Where Is Everybody? Why It’s So Tough to Get Your Head Around Climate Change," by Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch, March 3, 2013
• "State Department Report Paves the Way for Keystone Approval," by George Zornick, The Nation, March 1, 2013
• "Some tough news on Keystone XL," by Bill McKibben, 350.org, March 1, 2013

Media Issues

• "A Word from Our Sponsor: Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch," by Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, May 27, 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
• "Declassified Memo Shows ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Filmmakers Played Role of Willing Propagandists for CIA," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, May 7, 2013
• "60 Minutes and the Billionaire Agenda: Part 1, “Counterinsurgency Cops”," by Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's Future, May 6, 2013
• "The Koch Brothers and the Right Wing's Media Insurgency," by Robert Parry, Consortium News, April 26, 2013
• "Famed EPA Whistleblower Hits Media Coverage of 'Criminal' Texas Plant Explosion," by Greg Mitchell, The Nation, April 23, 2013
• "Tribune Company Scribes: Koch Brothers Purchase Could Turn Papers Into 'Conservative Mouthpiece'," by Joe Strupp, Media Matters, April 23, 2013
• "How Cable News Terrorizes America," by Murtaza Hussain, AlterNet, April 23, 2013
• "Conservative Koch Brothers Turning Focus to Newspapers," The New York Times, April 20, 2013
• "The Internet is in Danger of Being Strangled by Commercialism," by Robert McChesney, Truthout, April 16, 2013
• "Strategic Framing of the Red “Equality” Square," by Joe Brewer, Common Dreams, March 29, 2013
• "Digital Grab: Corporate Power Has Seized the Internet," by Norma Solomon, Common Dreams, March 28, 2013
• "At Tenth Anniversary of the Start of Iraq War: Sixteen Media Outrages That Followed," by Greg Mitchell, The Nation, March 17, 2013
• "The NYT and Obama officials collaborate to prosecute Awlaki after he's executed," by Glenn Greenwald, Guardian/UK, March 11, 2013
• "Bill Keller Ponders What Would Have Happened if NYT Published Information from Bradley Manning," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, March 10, 2013
• "Independent Journalists Lead Way in Covering and Bringing Transparency to Bradley Manning’s Court Martial," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, March 4, 2013
• "Bradley Manning Called the 'NYT' and 'Washington Post'—What If They'd Responded?," by Greg Mitchell, The Nation, March 1, 2013

Activism

• "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
• "Forest Service seeks to silence Smokey the Bear over fracking," by Peter Rugh, Waging Nonviolence, May 7, 2013
• "Confronting the 1 percent directly," by George Lakey, Waging Nonviolence, May 7, 2013
• "How Occupy Builds Popular Resistance," by Kevin Zeese & Margaet Flowers, Counterpunch, May 6, 2013
• "Immigrant Rights Groups, Labor, Occupy Plan May Day Protests," by Allison Kilkenny, The Nation, April 29, 2013
• "Why we occupied the World Social Forum," by Marisa Holmes, Waging Nonviolence, April 22, 2013
• "Tim DeChristopher’s cause for celebration," by Melanie Jae Martin, Waging Nonviolence, April 22, 2013
• "A tale of two Earth Day heroes: Tim DeChristopher and Sandra Steingraber," by Bill McKibben, Grist, April 21, 2013
• "Bangladeshi Activists Bring Fight to Wal-Mart’s Doorstep," by Michelle Chen, In These Times, April 20, 2013
• "How flash mob flamenco took on the banks," by Jason Webster, BBC News/UK, April 17, 2013
• "Off-Limits!: From North Pole, Greenpeace Youth Activists Demand Protection for Arctic," Common Dreams, April 15, 2013
• "U.S.: Occupy Affiliate Aims at Abolishing Consumer Debt," Inter Press Service, April 14, 2013
• "Designer Protests and Vanity Arrests in DC," by Jeffrey St. Clair, Counterpunch, April 12, 2013
• "Anti-drone movement takes flight," by Eric Stoner, Waging Nonviolence, April 10, 2013
• "'Time to Rise Up': Oklahoma Grandmother Bike-Locks Herself to KXL Pipeline Machinery," Common Dreams, April 10, 2013
• "Suit Settled With Occupy Wall St. Over Seizure of Library at a Park," The New York Times, April 9, 2013
• "Coming out as an activist," by Frida Berrigan, Waging Nonviolence, April 7, 2013
• "A Labor Litmus Test: Is It Time For Just Cause?," by Rand Wilson & Steve Early, Counterpunch, March 13, 2013
• "I pledge allegiance, to resist the pipeline," by George Lakey, Waging Nonviolence, March 12, 2013
• "Tar Sands Resistance Escalates in Massachusetts," by Chris Longenecker, Truthout, March 12, 2013
• "The Global Austerity Resistance Continues," by Allison Kilkenny, The Nation, March 11, 2013
• "'Funeral for Our Future': 26 Arrested Blockading TransCanada Office," Common Dreams, March 11, 2013
• "Bradley Manning: The Conscience of America," by Michael Ratner, Common Dreams, March 7, 2013
• "Strike Debt Declares Healthcare Emergency: It's a Matter of 'Life or Debt'," by Allison Kilkenny, The Nation, March 6, 2013
• "The Uncommon Courage of Bradley Manning: Exposing Government Lies to End a War," by Marjorie Cohn, Counterpunch, March 1, 2013

This Week on Between The Lines

Posted Dec. 19, 2012 for week ending Dec. 28, 2012

This week’s summary of under-reported news

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Compiled by Bob Nixon

• In the early days of the Obama administration, the new American president offered a fresh beginning with Iran. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei quickly rejected the overtures, citing a long list of grievances against the United States. Since then, the U.S. and Israel, concerned about what they charge is Iran’s drive to develop a nuclear weapons program, have engaged in a covert war against the Islamic Republic involving the launch of damaging computer viruses, crippling economic sanctions and the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists. ("The Iron Ayatollah," Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 4, 2012)
• Burma’s Buddhist monks have returned to street protests, this time to stop the expansion of a Chinese-owned copper mine and hundreds of forced evictions of local villagers. During a violent crackdown in late November, over 20 monks were burned by an incendiary devise used by security forces. ("Violent raid breaks up Myanmar mine protest," New York Times, Nov. 29, 2012; "Myanmar gov’t asks Suu Kyi to investigate mine dispute," Reuters, Dec. 1, 2012; "Copper mine strikes raise questions in Myanmar," Global Post, Dec. 13, 2012; "Myanmar: Storm Clouds on the Horizon," International Crisis Group, report, Nov. 12, 2012)
• The US Environmental Protection Agency has given energy and mining companies the right to pollute numerous underground water aquifers, mostly in dry western states suffering from drought. ("Poisoning the well: How the feds let industry pollute the nation’s underground water supply," ProPublica, Dec. 11, 2012)

 

Recent Shows

December

Week Ending Dec. 21, 2012

• Glenn Greenwald:  Civil Liberties Erosion in President Obama’s Second Term Will Continue Unless Citizens Mobilize
• Jamie Henn:  Climate Change Divestment Campaign Pressures Universities to Divest Their Fossil Fuel Stocks
• Frank Hammer:  Labor Rights Under Attack Again: Michigan, the Birthplace of U.S. Labor Movement, Adopts "Right to Work" Law

Week Ending Dec. 14, 2012

• John Quigley:  Defying U.S. and Israel, UN Votes to Recognize Palestine as "Nonmember Observer State"
• Alex Lawson:  Progressive Coalition Draws Line in Sand to Protect Social Safety Net Programs in Fiscal Cliff Negotiations
• Cherri Foytlin:  Motivated by Concern for her Children's Future, Louisiana Mother of 6 Makes Journey as Climate Change Activist

Week Ending Dec. 7, 2012

• Cindy and Craig Corrie:  Slain Peace Activist Rachel Corrie's Parents Reflect on Gaza Visit Just Before Recent Cross-Border Violence
• Joe Lovett:  Facing Lawsuit, Patriot Coal Company Agrees to Phase Out Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
• David Bacon:  Nationwide Walmart Workers' Strike Defies Retail Giant's Anti-Union Intimidation Tactics

November

Week Ending Nov. 30, 2012

• Phyllis Bennis:  Israeli Occupation and Blockade is Root Cause of Gaza Conflict
• Max Richtman:  Labor, Progressive Groups Call on Obama to Protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid During "Fiscal Cliff" Negotiations
• Pablo Benson-Silva:  Occupy Sandy Relief Effort Connects Dots Between Wall Street Greed and Nation's Climate Change Paralysis

Week Ending Nov. 23, 2012

• Bill Fletcher Jr.:  After Delivering Critical Votes for Obama and Democrats, Labor Now Moves on Post-Election Agenda
• Terry O'Neill:   Republican "War on Women" Provokes Backlash at Polls and Key Victories for Progressive Candidates
• Sally Bingham:  California Launches Landmark Cap-and-Trade Program with Auction of Greenhouse Gas Pollution Permits

Week Ending Nov. 16, 2012

• John Nichols:  Progressive Gains in U.S. Senate Defy Pundits' Declaration of "Status Quo" Election
• Nick Nyhart:  In Wake of Record-Breaking Spending in 2012 Election Campaign, Public May be Ready to Demand Reform
• Joy Gordon:  Iran's Civilians Bear Brunt of International Sanctions

Week Ending Nov. 9, 2012

• Frederick Clarkson:  The Christian Right's Prominent Role in GOP Exposed by Their Candidates' Extremist Views on "Rape"
• Daniel Kessler:  In Aftermath of Devastating "Frankenstorm" Climate Change Group Launches Divestment Campaign Against Fossil Fuel Industry
• Eric Boehlert:  Media Focus on Election Polls and Gaffes Crowd Out Substantive Coverage of Critical Issues

Week Ending Nov. 2, 2012

• Judy Bello:  Code Pink Delegation in Pakistan Stands in Solidarity with U.S. Drone Attack Victims
• Diana Buttu and Saleh Abdal Jawad:  Testimony Before Russell Tribunal Focuses on U.S., U.N. Role in Israel's 45-Year Occupation of Palestine
• Greg Palast:  The Theft of Millions of Votes Could Determine Outcome of 2012 Senate and Presidential Elections

October

Week Ending Oct. 26, 2012

• Bill Hartung:  Critical U.S. Foreign Policy Questions Absent from Major Party Presidential Debates
• Jesse Lava:  "Koch Brothers Exposed": Film Documentary Examines Right-Wing Groups, Causes Supported by Multi-Billionaires David and Charles Koch
• Chuck Nelson:  Longtime Mountaintop-Removal Coal Mining Opponent Larry Gibson Remembered by Activists and Friends

Week Ending Oct. 19, 2012

• Mark Weisbrot:  Venezuela's Poor Deliver Hugo Chavez Re-Election Victory
• Cindy Corrie:  Slain Peace Activist Rachel Corrie's Parents Carry on Struggle for Peace and Justice in her Name
• Rocky Anderson:  Rocky Anderson Runs for President Challenging Plutocracy and the "Corrupt" Major Party Duopoly

Week Ending Oct. 12, 2012

• Marge Baker:  Future of Supreme Court Ideological Composition Hinges on Presidential Election
• George Farah:  Critics Demand Full Disclosure of Secret Party Contracts Governing Presidential Debates
• Ron Seifert:  Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline Construction in Texas Target of Nonviolent, Civil Disobedience Actions

Week Ending Oct. 5, 2012

• Jamal Abdi:  As U.S. Election Nears, Rising Tensions with Iran Pose Risk of Miscalculation and War
• Ben Beachy:  Critics Decry Secrecy, Corporate Access to Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Negotiations
• Drew Kukorowski:  Campaign Pressures FCC to Roll Back Exorbitant Expense of Prison Phone Calls

September

Week Ending Sept. 28, 2012

• Chris Toensing:  In Anti-Islam Film Uproar, Militant Groups Exploit Decades-old Grievances Against U.S.
• Marjorie Cohn:  Court Ruling Challenges U.S. Government’s Right to Indefinitely Detain Terrorist Suspects and Supporters
• Ann Wright:  On 1st Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street Movement, Activists Block Business as Usual in New York's Financial District

Week Ending Sept. 21, 2012

• John Feffer:  Critics Separate Rhetoric from Reality in Obama's "Hope and Change" Foreign Policy
• Kevin Alexander Gray:  In Appealing to Middle Class Voters, Obama and Democrats Ignore Rising Levels of Poverty
• Bill Duesing:  Stanford University Study Ignores Key Reasons Why People Buy Organic Foods

Week Ending Sept. 14, 2012

• Steve Early:  U.S. Labor Movement Faces Choice of "Lesser Evils" in Coming Presidential Election
• Peter Hart:  Corporate Media Fails to Separate Fact from Fiction at GOP Convention
• Michael Hendryx:  Recent Health Studies Point to Link Between Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining and Human Illness

Week Ending Sept. 7, 2012

• Randy Albelda:  GOP Employs Phony Welfare Issue to Exploit Racial Division and Win Over White Voters
• Nancy Keenan:  Romney, Ryan, Akin and GOP Wage War on Women by Embracing Extreme Positions on Reproductive Rights
• Jonathan Schwarz:  Defenders of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Say Sweden's Actions Justified His Political Asylum Request

August

Week Ending Aug. 31, 2012

• Dean Baker:  Romney-Ryan: The GOP's Ticket to Slashing The Nation's Social Safety Net
• Scott Klinger:  New "Executive Excess" Report Links CEO Pay to Massive Corporate Tax Avoidance
• David Lochbaum:  Another Climate Change Warning Sign: Connecticut Nuclear Power Plant Shuts Down Due to High Ocean Temperatures

Week Ending Aug. 24, 2012

• Leah Bolger:  Israel Poised to Launch Pre-U.S. Election Attack on Iran
• Dr. Dan Doyle:  Mountain Top Removal Coal Mining Divides Communities Over Jobs and the Environment
• Leonard Eiger:  Transform Now Plowshares Disarmament Action Targets Oak Ridge Nuclear Weapons Facility

Week Ending Aug. 17, 2012

• Karen Perry Stillerman:  Critics Challenge Monsanto's Claims Extolling Benefits of Genetically Engineered Food Crops
• Paul Anastas:  Former EPA Adviser Comments on Recurring Conflict Between Science and Politics
• Jill Stein:  Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein Revives FDR's Legacy in Her 'Green New Deal'

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

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