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.
Thank you for donating
If you've made a donation and wish to receive thank you gifts for your donation, be sure to send us your mailing address via our Contact form.
See our thank you gifts for your donation.
The Resistance Starts Now!
Between The Lines' coverage and resource compilation of the Resistance Movement
- "The man who predicted Trump presidential win now says Trump impeachment could happen," AM Joy with Joy Reid, MSNBC, Jan. 21, 2018
- "Sketchy Kazakh money finds its way into Trump dealings," The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC, Jan. 15, 2018
- "Red flags seen in many Trump real estate deals," The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC, Jan. 15, 2018
- "Secret Money: How Trump Made Millions Selling Condos To Unknown Buyers," BuzzFeed, Jan. 12, 2018
- "The Scandals of Donald Trump: Presidential Edition," The Atlantic, May 15, 2017
- "Here's what we know so far about Team Trump's ties to Russian interests," Washington Post's ongoing compilation
- "What Comey Was Investigating, Explained," The Moscow Project, Center for American Progress
- "Donald Trump's Financial Ties to Russian Oligarchs and Mobsters Detailed In Explosive New Documentary from the Netherlands," Dutch TV documentary, Alternet.org, May 12, 2017
- Ongoing compilation of Trump's creeping authoritarianism," MotherJones.com
- Full resource list ...
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
- Jen Siskind Jennifer Siskind, local coordinator for Food and Water Watch, describes the campaign to stop fracking waste in Connecticut, which so far has led to fracking waste bans in 34 towns around the state.
Interviewed by Richard Hill on Mic Check, WPKN Radio, Bridgeport, CT
SPECIAL REPORT: "Resistance Round Table: The Unraveling Continues..." Jan. 13, 2018
- Lindsay Kanaly
The panel discusses Trump's long history of racism and the Republican voter suppression juggernaut confronting Democrats leading up to the 2018 elections. Special guest: Lindsay Kanaly, a lead organizer of the Women's Marches planned for Jan. 20, 2018. Panel: Scott Harris, Ruthanne Baumgartner and Richard Hill on Resistance Roundtable, WPKN Radio, Bridgeport, CT.
SPECIAL REPORT: "Capitalism to the ash heap?" Richard Wolff, Jan. 2, 2018
- Richard Wolff,
Economics professor Richard Wolff declares U.S. capitalism to be beyond repair and
suggests the need for a radical alternative. Interviewed by Richard Hill
SPECIAL REPORT: Maryn McKenna, author of "Big Chicken", Dec. 7, 2017
- Maryn McKenna, investigative journalist and author of Big Chicken, talks about the widespread use and dangers of antibiotics in commercial poultry, beef and fruit production. Interview by Bill Duesing, Richard Hill and Guy Beardsly on WPKN's Organic Farm Stand.
SPECIAL REPORT: Nina Turner's address, Working Families Party Awards Banquet, Dec. 14, 2017
- Nina Turner, president of Our Revolution, talks about the fight ahead for progressives as she receives the Working Families Organization Award for Exceptional Leadership Towards Advancing Progress. The event was held in Meriden, CT.
Produced by Richard Hill.
SPECIAL REPORT: Mic Check, Dec. 12, 2017
- Working Families Party of CT talks strategy and issues for 2018.
Lindsay Farrell, executive director of the Working Families Party of Connecticut, discusses the state's electoral landscape and lays out the issues and strategies that could lead to progressive victories in 2018. Interviewed by Richard Hill.
SPECIAL REPORT: Resistance Roundtable, Dec. 9, 2017
- Disturbing developments in the Trump/Republican Agenda
Focus on the tax bill, destruction of our public lands, North Korea and Trump's private CIA. Panel: Scott Harris, Ruthanne Baumgartner and Richard Hill. Special guest: Jo Macallero of Rise and Resist.
SPECIAL REPORT: On Tyranny - one year later, Nov. 28, 2017
- Professor Timothy Snyder, author of the highly acclaimed resistance manual On Tyranny, discusses his book and offers a fresh assessment of the state of our beleaguered republic. Timothy Snyder, history professor at Yale, is introduced by Stanley Heller, administrator of Promoting Enduring Peace, a Connecticut-based organization that sponsored this event at the United Church Parish House in New Haven on Nov. 28. A brief interview with Snyder conducted by WPKN radio producer, Richard Hill, follows his talk.
SPECIAL REPORT: Mic Check, Nov. 12, 2017
- Lynne Ide, director of program and policy with the Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut, talks about the current state of health care coverage in Connecticut. Interviewed by Richard Hill, WPKN radio producer
SPECIAL REPORT: Resistance Roundtable, Nov. 11, 2017
- Focus on the Republican tax plan, the just-released autopsy on the Democratic Party, and Internet censorship by Google, Facebook and Youtube. Including an interview with Hilary Grant, a lead organizer with Action Together Connecticut, who discusses the local results of the recent election, with hosts Richard Hill, Scott Harris and Ruth Baumgartner WPKN producers
SPECIAL REPORT: Rainy Day Radio, Nov. 7, 2017
- Two leaders from Redneck Revolt, an anti-racist, anti-capitalist movement, talk about their work organizing with white working class people in Suffolk County, New York. Interviewed by Richard Hill, WPKN radio producer
SPECIAL REPORT: Rainy Day Radio, Nov. 7, 2017
- Bruce Gagnon, coordinator for the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, describes the extent of -- and motives underlying -- the vast US network of military bases around the globe. Interviewed by Richard Hill, WPKN radio producer
SPECIAL REPORT: Resisting U.S. JeJu Island military base in South Korea, Oct. 24, 2017
- Joyakol, South Korean peace activist and singer, discusses the crisis on the Korean peninsula and focuses on the resistance to the U.S. huge military base being constructed on Jeju Island. The event was sponsored by the Greater New Haven Peace Council and this audio was recorded by Richard Hill, WPKN producer.
- Joyakol discusses Americans' biggest misconceptions about the conflict between North and South Korea and the U.S., Interview by Richard Hill, WPKN producer.
SPECIAL REPORT: John Allen, Out in New Haven
- John Allen, founding director of the New Haven Pride Center, Connecticut, talks about his new LGBTQ television show, Out in New Haven, which presents a range of political and cultural issues to the community. Interviewed by Richard Hill on WPKN's Rainy Day Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018.
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.
Subscribe to our Weekly Summary & receive our FREE Resist Trump window cling
(Car window cling)
Email us with your mailing address at contact@btlonline.org to receive our "Resist Trump/Resist Hate" car window cling!
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.
Between The Lines on Stitcher
Between The Lines Presentation at the Left Forum 2016
"How Do We Build A Mass Movement to Reverse Runaway Inequality?" with Les Leopold, author of "Runaway Inequality: An Activist's Guide to Economic Justice,"May 22, 2016, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York, 860 11th Ave. (Between 58th and 59th), New York City. Between The Lines' Scott Harris and Richard Hill moderated this workshop. Listen to the audio/slideshows and more from this workshop.
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.
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.)
Counterpoint in its entirety is archived after midnight ET
Monday nights,
and is available for at least a year following broadcast in
WPKN Radio's Archives.
You can also listen to
full unedited interview segments from Counterpoint, which
are generally available some time the day following broadcast.
Subscribe to Counterpoint bulletins via our subscriptions page.
BTL Blog
[an error occurred while processing this directive]
Special Programming
[an error occurred while processing this directive]
Progressive Resources
A compilation of activist and news sites with a progressive point of view
Subscribe to BTL
Podcasts: direct or via iTunes
Subscribe to Program Summaries, Interview Transcripts or Counterpoint via email or RSS feed
If you have other questions regarding subscriptions, feeds or podcasts/mp3s go to our Audio Help page.
Stay connected to BTL
Learn how to support our efforts!
This Week on Between The Lines
Posted July 27, 2011 for week ending Aug. 5, 2011
"We have seen a significant assault on voting in a range of bills and laws passing across the country that make it harder to register and to vote."
-- Wendy Weiser, director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law
Listen to the entire program using these links, or to individual interviews via the links appearing prior to each segment description below.
RealAudio
MP3
PodcastLooking to 2012 Election, Republicans Enact Voter Suppression Legislation Across the U.S.
Interview with Wendy Weiser, director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law, conducted by Scott Harris
As President Obama and Congress engage in a sometimes nasty public debate on negotiating a legislative resolution to raising the nation’s debt ceiling before an Aug. 2 deadline, the politics of the 2012 election are never far away. Competing policies on addressing the national debt, the solvency of Social Security and Medicare and future tax rates will all be important issues in the presidential and congressional election in November 2012. Story continues
Activists Engage in Tree-Sit Protest in West Virginia to Stop Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
Interview with Junior Walk, member of the Protest Support Network , conducted by Melinda Tuhus
On July 20, two activists climbed 80 feet up into two trees adjacent to an active mountaintop removal coal mining site at Coal River Mountain in southern West Virginia. The site was owned by Massey Energy, the largest mountaintop removal coal operator in Appalachia, which also owns the underground Upper Big Branch mine where 29 miners were killed last year. The company was sold this spring to Alpha Natural Resources, which is continuing the same operations. Story continues
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Update: Mismanagement Leads to Radioactive Food Contamination
Interview with Arjun Makhijani, president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, conducted by Scott Harris
Although the multiple failure of nuclear power reactors at Fukushima, Japan is one of the worst nuclear accidents in world history, corporate press outlets have cut back on most of their coverage of the disaster triggered by the March 11 earthquake and Tsunami. Since the early days of the crisis, three of Fukushima’s six nuclear reactors melted down and spewed radioactivity into the atmosphere and nearby ocean. Although a 12-mile exclusion zone was imposed around the stricken plant, many radioactive hot spots outside the zone have caused the local population to be concerned about the negative health effects -- especially among children. In response, Fukushima’s prefectural government will conduct thyroid cancer testing on all residents who were 18 years old or under when the accident occurred, and repeat examinations every two years until the age of 20 and then every five years. The affected population is estimated to be 360,000. Story continues
This week’s summary of under-reported news
Compiled by Bob Nixon
- During a United Nations debate held on July 20, Russia and its allies successfully "watered down" a Security Council resolution on climate change and political instability. Russia also blocked a plan to establish a new peacekeeping force to intervene in climate-induced conflicts. ("UN countries divided over security council climate role," The Guardian, July 21, 2011; "UN official warns climate change could lead to conflicts over resources," MSNBC, July 21, 2011)
- The state of Vermont has won the first round in its legal fight to close the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. ("Who has the final say over the fate of Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant," Christian Science Monitor, July 19, 2011)
- With a weak economy persisting across Europe and the U.S. all-time high gold prices have spiked to over $1,600 an ounce. ("Gold: a test of mettle,"Christian Science Monitor, July 18, 2011; "Why gold won’t soon crash," Wall Street Journal, July 23-24, 2011)
Recent Shows
Week Ending JULY 29, 2011
- Eric Kingson: "Gang of Six" Senate Debt Ceiling Deal Would Make Deep Cuts to Social Security Benefits
- Ofer Neiman: New Israeli Law Targeting Activists Advocating a Boycott of Israel Provokes Backlash
- Steve Rendall: British Tabloid Scandal Unleashes Scrutiny of Rupert Murdoch's Powerful Media Empire
Week Ending JULY 22, 2011
- Richard Eskow: Obama Adopts GOP Agenda, Offers Deep Cuts in Social Safety Net Programs to Get Debt Ceiling Budget Deal
- Elliott Levitas: Native Americans Win $3.4 Billion Settlement for U.S. Government's Mismanagement of Millions of Acres of Land
- Eva Golinger: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s Battle with Cancer Raises Questions About Future of His Bolivarian Revolution
Week Ending JULY 15, 2011
- Peter G. Prontzos: Greeks Fight for Alternatives to Austerity Policies Provoking Economic Hardship
- Robert Naiman: Greek Government Acts as Israeli Proxy in Blocking International Flotilla from Sailing to Gaza
- David Leopold: State Initiated Anti-Immigration Laws Underscore Urgent Need for Comprehensive Federal Immigration Reform
Week Ending JULY 8, 2011
- Anna Berlinrut: Obama: Nation's Longest War in Afghanistan Will Continue 3 More Years
- Nancy Keenan: Republicans Push State-by-State Anti-Abortion Agenda Across U.S.
- Michael Mariotte: Investigation Reveals Dangers at Aging U.S. Nuclear Power Plants
Week Ending JULY 1, 2011
- Chris Owens: Wal-Mart Wins, Workers Lose in U.S. Supreme Court Decision Rejecting Class Action Discrimination Lawsuit
- Matthew Rothschild: After Court Reinstates Wisconsin Anti-Union Law, Activists Organize for Summer State Senate Recall Elections
- Robert Naiman: U.S. Boat to Join International Flotilla Challenging Israeli Gaza Blockade
Week Ending JUNE 24, 2011
- Anuradha Mittal: Hedge Fund-Financed Land Grab in Africa Triggers Global Food Price Spike, Rise in Hunger
- Kenny King: Unions and Environmentalists March to Protect Historic Blair Mountain from Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
- Jon Green: Connecticut's New Paid Sick Days Law Could Be National Model
Week Ending JUNE 17, 2011
- David Swanson: As Afghan War Approaches Second Decade, Activists Organize October Anti-War Protest
- Michael Klare: How Much Pain is Necessary to Break U.S. Addiction to Fossil Fuels?
- Michael Albert: Widespread Protests Challenge Spain's Political and Economic Status Quo
Week Ending JUNE 10, 2011
- Damon Silvers: Will Democrats Stand and Fight or Surrender to GOP Plan to Dismantle Medicare?
- Ben Schreiber: U.S. Senate Defeats Plan to Eliminate Billions of Dollars in Big Oil Tax Subsidies
- Dana Frank: Ousted President Zelaya Returns to Honduras as Repression Continues
Week Ending JUNE 3, 2011
- Howard Friel: Power of U.S.-Israeli Lobby a Major Obstacle to Restart Middle East Peace Talks
- Arjun Makhijani: Triple Meltdowns at Fukushima Reactors Another Reason to Phase out Nuclear Power
- Larry Gibson: West Virginia Protest March Will Link Campaign to Stop Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining and Labor Solidarity
Week Ending MAY 27, 2011
- Joshua Landis: Religious and Class Divisions Stoke Popular Uprising in Syria
- Kathy Kelly: Civilian Deaths From U.S.-NATO Drone Attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan Provoke Hatred and Violence
- Dr. Kevin Trenberth: Climate Scientists Now Connect Extreme Weather with Global Climate Change
Home | History | Staff | Broadcast-Quality MP3s | Station Information | Audio Archives | Audio Help | Transcripts |
© Squeaky Wheel Productions 2017 | Design: no left turn | Site Architecture: