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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




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



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SPECIAL REPORT: Resistance Roundtable, Dec. 9, 2017




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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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This Week on Between The Lines

Posted Feb. 13, 2013 for week ending Feb. 22, 2013

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"We're seeking information about civilian casualties of drone strikes abroad and the targeted killing program, as well as other information that the government has about that program. The CIA to this day claims that it cannot confirm or deny that it even has records, based on national security grounds. And that is becoming increasingly unbelievable by the day..."

– Brett Kaufman, national security fellow with the ACLU's National Security Project on the presidential executive branch's secrecy around decisions of who can be targeted for assassination


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Leaked Memo and John Brennan Confirmation Hearing Spur Opposition to U.S. Drone Program Targeting U.S. Citizens

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Interview with Brett Kaufman, national security fellow at the ACLU's National Security Project, conducted by Scott Harris

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A confidential 16-page Justice Department memo referred to as the “white paper” that considers the legal authority of the U.S. government to use unmanned aerial drones abroad was leaked to NBC News and released to the public on Feb. 4. The memo concludes that the U.S. government can order the killing of American citizens if they are believed to be “senior operational leaders” of al Qaeda or an associated force, even if there is no intelligence indicating they are engaged in an active plot to attack the U.S. The memo further argues for a “broader concept of imminence,” declaring “the condition that an operational leader present an 'imminent' threat of violent attack against the United States does not require the United States to have clear evidence that a specific attack on U.S. persons and interests will take place in the immediate future.” To date, the public has been told that three U.S. citizens have been killed by drones. Samir Khan, Anwar al-Awlaki and his 16-year-old son Abdulrahman al-Awlaki were killed by U.S. drone strikes in Yemen during 2011.  Story continues

Appeals Court Hears Challenge to NDAA Government Power to Indefinitely Detain U.S. Citizens

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Interview with Carl J. Mayer, attorney representing journalist Chris Hedges and six other plaintiffs in lawsuit over indefinite detention provision, conducted by Scott Harris

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When President Obama signed the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, civil liberties advocates were alarmed at several provisions, including Section 1021 that empowers current and all future presidents to indefinitely imprison U.S. citizens and non-citizens who were part of or “substantially supported al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners." Persons accused under this provision can be held by the U.S. military indefinitely or transferred to any nation in the world, without charge, trial or access to an attorney.  Story continues

In Newtown Massacre Aftermath, Grassroots Movement Campaigns to Strengthen Connecticut Gun Laws

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Interview with Marty Isaac, president of Connecticut Against Gun Violence Education Fund, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

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The Dec. 14 massacre of 20 young children and 6 educators at Newtown, Conn.’s Sandy Hook Elementary School has provoked a national debate and soul-searching about how best to stop America’s epidemic of gun violence, but nowhere more than in the state where the tragedy occurred. Since the Newtown mass shooting, Connecticut legislators have convened several task forces to reconsider the state’s gun laws, the availability of mental health treatment, school safety, and have introduced dozens of bills to address those issues.  Story continues

This week’s summary of under-reported news

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