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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Selected speeches from the Women's March in Hartford, Connecticut 2018, recorded and produced by Scott Harris
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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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.
"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.
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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Interview with Ellen Brown, chair and president of the Public Banking Institute and author of “Web of Debt”, conducted by Scott Harris
The tentative agreement by JP Morgan Chase Bank to pay the U.S. Department of Justice $13 billion to settle civil investigations into mortgage-backed securities in the period before the 2008 financial meltdown is the largest such settlement on record. But the deal ran into several obstacles in late October when JP Morgan Chase argued that it should not be responsible to pay for errors made by Washington Mutual, the bank it purchased after the housing bubble burst and the world’s financial system went into crisis.
In one of the few trials linked to the 2008 financial crisis, a federal jury in New York found the Bank of America liable on one civil fraud charge on Oct. 23. Countrywide was accused of issuing defective home loans in a process referred to as the "Hustle," which were then sold to government mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The U.S. Justice Department is seeking more than $848 million in penalties, equivalent to Fannie and Freddie’s losses.
There are few such examples of the U.S. government holding big banks accountable for their reckless or illegal behavior, which many economists point to as being a large part of the abuses that led to the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. And when the government does intervene, more often than not the Justice Department imposes fines, but defers criminal prosecution of bank executives, leading many to observe that America has a double standard for justice when it comes to too big to fail financial institutions. Between The Lines’ Scott Harris spoke with Ellen Brown, chair and president of the Public Banking Institute and author of the book, “The Public Bank Solution: From Austerity to Prosperity.” Here, Brown takes a critical look at government regulation and oversight of the nation's banks and discusses the public banking alternative she advocates.
For more information on the Public Banking Institute, visit publicbankinginstitute.org/.
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