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Award-winning Investigative Journalist Robert Parry (1949-2018)

Award-winning investigative journalist and founder/editor of ConsortiumNews.com, Robert Parry has passed away. His ground-breaking work uncovering Reagan-era dirty wars in Central America and many other illegal and immoral policies conducted by successive administrations and U.S. intelligence agencies, stands as an inspiration to all in journalists working in the public interest.

Robert had been a regular guest on our Between The Lines and Counterpoint radio shows -- and many other progressive outlets across the U.S. over four decades.

His penetrating analysis of U.S. foreign policy and international conflicts will be sorely missed, and not easily replaced. His son Nat Parry writes a tribute to his father: Robert Parry’s Legacy and the Future of Consortiumnews.



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The Resistance Starts Now!

Between The Lines' coverage and resource compilation of the Resistance Movement



SPECIAL REPORT: "The Resistance - Women's March 2018 - Hartford, Connecticut" Jan. 20, 2018

Selected speeches from the Women's March in Hartford, Connecticut 2018, recorded and produced by Scott Harris





SPECIAL REPORT: "No Fracking Waste in CT!" Jan. 14, 2018



SPECIAL REPORT: "Resistance Round Table: The Unraveling Continues..." Jan. 13, 2018





SPECIAL REPORT: "Capitalism to the ash heap?" Richard Wolff, Jan. 2, 2018




SPECIAL REPORT: Maryn McKenna, author of "Big Chicken", Dec. 7, 2017






SPECIAL REPORT: Nina Turner's address, Working Families Party Awards Banquet, Dec. 14, 2017



SPECIAL REPORT: Mic Check, Dec. 12, 2017



SPECIAL REPORT: Resistance Roundtable, Dec. 9, 2017




SPECIAL REPORT: On Tyranny - one year later, Nov. 28, 2017



SPECIAL REPORT: Mic Check, Nov. 12, 2017



SPECIAL REPORT: Resistance Roundtable, Nov. 11, 2017



SPECIAL REPORT: Rainy Day Radio, Nov. 7, 2017



SPECIAL REPORT: Rainy Day Radio, Nov. 7, 2017




SPECIAL REPORT: Resisting U.S. JeJu Island military base in South Korea, Oct. 24, 2017




SPECIAL REPORT: John Allen, Out in New Haven




2017 Gandhi Peace Awards

Promoting Enduring Peace presented its Gandhi Peace Award jointly to renowned consumer advocate Ralph Nader and BDS founder Omar Barghouti on April 23, 2017.



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THANK YOU TO EVERYONE...

who helped make our 25th anniversary with Jeremy Scahill a success!

For those who missed the event, or were there and really wanted to fully absorb its import, here it is in video

Jeremy Scahill keynote speech, part 1 from PROUDEYEMEDIA on Vimeo.

Jeremy Scahill keynote speech, part 2 from PROUDEYEMEDIA on Vimeo.


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Between The Lines Presentation at the Left Forum 2016

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"How Do We Build A Mass Movement to Reverse Runaway Inequality?" with Les Leopold, author of "Runaway Inequality: An Activist's Guide to Economic Justice,"May 22, 2016, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York, 860 11th Ave. (Between 58th and 59th), New York City. Between The Lines' Scott Harris and Richard Hill moderated this workshop. Listen to the audio/slideshows and more from this workshop.





Listen to audio of the plenary sessions from the weekend.



JEREMY SCAHILL: Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker "Dirty Wars"

Listen to the full interview (30:33) with Jeremy Scahill, an award-winning investigative journalist with the Nation Magazine, correspondent for Democracy Now! and author of the bestselling book, "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army," about America's outsourcing of its military. In an exclusive interview with Counterpoint's Scott Harris on Sept. 16, 2013, Scahill talks about his latest book, "Dirty Wars, The World is a Battlefield," also made into a documentary film under the same title, and was nominated Dec. 5, 2013 for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary Feature category.

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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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This Week on Between The Lines

Posted June 14, 2017 for week ending June 23, 2017

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"It turned out people liked (the Labor Manifesto) quite a bit; they were calling for major increases in spending on the country's national health service, government-sponsored childcare, actually nationalizing the railways and the public utilities."

– Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, on how the British Labor Party's progressive platform pulled off stunning election gains.


Listen to the entire program using these links, or to individual interviews via the links appearing prior to each segment description below.

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Labor Party's Jeremy Corbyn Surprises Pundits with UK Election Gains

MP3 Interview with Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, conducted by Scott Harris

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When Conservative British Prime Minister Theresa May called a snap election for June 8, she was hoping to increase her party’s power in Parliament as the country began Brexit negotiations over terms for leaving the European Union. However, voters had a different plan. Instead of strengthening her standing, the prime minister lost seats, with no party now having a majority, in what’s called a hung Parliament.  Story continues

U.S. Progressive Movement Looks to Broaden Agenda Beyond Trump Resistance

MP3 Interview with John Nichols, national affairs correspondent with the Nation magazine, conducted by Scott Harris

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Some 4,000 progressive activists came to Chicago, June 9-11 for the second annual People’s Summit conference. The gathering, largely linked to the movement that supported Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign, came to Chicago to discuss strategies to move the nation’s progressive activist groups “beyond resistance to a building a broad people’s movement for a just world.”  Story continues

Coalition Demands Senate Block All New Nominations of Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioners

MP3 Interview with Lee Stewart, organizer with Beyond Extreme Energy, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

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One of the many climate change fights underway since the Trump administration took office, involves Trump’s nominations to fill vacancies on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC. This is the government body responsible for approving all fracked gas infrastructure projects that transports gas from the fracking fields of Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and other states to the rest of the country, and for shipment abroad. In the past 30 years, FERC has rejected only one pipeline project, but the commission has been without a quorum since early February and it’s unable to approve new projects until Trump’s nominees are approved. His first two nominees are Neil Chatterjee, a top energy aide to GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Robert Powelson, a Pennsylvania energy regulator who has labeled the many opponents of fracked gas in his state, “jihadists.”  Story continues

This week’s summary of under-reported news

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