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Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastFloundering Democrats Urged to Embrace FDR New Deal-Style Popular Economic PoliciesSalon.com columnist Heather Digby Parton: Floundering Democrats Urged to Embrace FDR New Deal-Style Popular Economic PoliciesCT Students for a Dream Executive Director Tabitha Sookdeo: Effort Underway to Build Bridges Between Diverse Immigrant Communities Facing Trump Mass DeportationUniversity of Washington's Dr. Ferric C. Fang: HHS Secretary RFK Jr. Cuts Federal mRNA Vaccine Research Funding, Endangering Public HealthBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary• More than 1,500 civilians may have been massacred in Sudan• Republicans are laser-focused on purging noncitizens from voter roll...
2025-08-2729 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastTrump-GOP House Budget Bill will Literally Kill Americans Who Lose Access to HealthcareSocial Security Works' Alex Lawson: Trump-GOP House Budget Bill will Literally Kill Americans Who Lose Access to HealthcareVietnam veteran Russell Brown: Veterans and Allies’ 40-Day Fast Demands Israel Restore Full Humanitarian Aid to GazaConnecticut Action Group's Helen Humphries: Campaign Targets Insurance Companies to End Their Underwriting and Investments in Fossil FuelsBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary• Salvadoran dictator arrests human rights lawyer Ruth Lopez• Peru courts grant "personhood" status to Marañon River in Amazon basin• Trump emergency logging directive...
2025-05-2829 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastWashington, D.C. and National Protests Pledge Resistance to Trump’s Authoritarian AgendaPeople's March protesters: Washington, D.C. and National Protests Pledge Resistance to Trump’s Authoritarian AgendaSunrise climate activist Alejandro Sobrera Barboza and U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez: Youth Climate Group Protests Nomination of Fracking CEO to be Trump’s Energy SecretaryUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison's Jennifer Loewenstein: The Israel-Hamas Gaza Ceasefire Takes Hold, But Fails to Address Future of Palestinians in CrisisBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary• How will Trump support global security in China-Taiwan conflict? • World Bank changes course to now back mega...
2025-01-2229 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastShocking Supreme Court Ruling Granting Presidential Immunity Enables Future AutocratsPeople for the American Way Executive Vice President Marge Baker: Shocking Supreme Court Ruling Granting Presidential Immunity Enables Future AutocratsNatural Resources Defense Council senior attorney and strategist David Doniger: Supreme Court Chevron Doctrine Ruling Jeopardizes Countless Federal RegulationsWashington, D.C.-based policy consultant Stewart Lawrence: Democrats Balk at Going Public with Rising Concern Joe Biden Unable to Defeat Donald TrumpBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary• Philippines reckons With Duterte’s brutal drug war• Is Boeing plea agreement a 'sweetheart deal'?• Oklahoma...
2024-07-1029 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastHamas’ Brutal Attack on Israel Provokes New Cycle of Bloodshed and VengeanceThe Nation Magazine's National Affairs Correspondent John Nichols: Hamas’ Brutal Attack on Israel Provokes New Cycle of Bloodshed and VengeanceYale-New Haven Hospital's Dr. Sharon Chekijian: Azerbaijani Military Operation Succeeds in Ethnic Cleansing of Nagorno-KarabakhStop Cop City organizer Jamie Peck: Major ‘Stop Cop City’ Protest Action Planned for Nov. 10-13Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary• South China Sea's other crisis: irreparable environmental damage & deep sea mining• GOP now refusing to fund AIDS relief to programs that partner with abortion clinics
2023-10-1129 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastCult Expert Concerned a Trump 2024 Defeat will Again Incite Supporters to Violence"Cult of Trump" author Steven Hassan: Cult Expert Concerned a Trump 2024 Defeat will Again Incite Supporters to ViolenceClimate Defiance activist Betty Moose: 'Climate Defiance' Targets Government Officials Who Aren’t Using Their Power to Address (the) Climate CrisisEconomics professor emeritus Richard D. Wolff: BRICS Nations' Rise: Shaping a New Global Economy the US and its Allies No Longer DominateBob Nixon's Under-reported News• Southeast Asian nations flooded with West's plastic junk waste• Dollar General moves into the health market• Super-rich oil heir...
2023-09-2729 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastPutin’s Suspension of New START Treaty Endangers Last Remaining U.S.-Russia Nuclear Arms PactPeace Action Executive Director Jon Rainwater: Putin’s Suspension of New START Treaty Endangers Last Remaining U.S.-Russia Nuclear Arms PactThe Real News Network Associate Editor Mel Buer: Toxic Ohio Train Derailment Underscores Urgent Need for Tough Government Regulation350.org co-founder Bill McKibben: Third Act, Organizing People Over 60 to Defend Democracy and Address the Climate Crisis Bob Nixon's Under-reported News SummaryColombia's President Gustavo Petro election presents social justice opportunitySen. Kyrsten Sinema tied to exploitive Payday lending industry$80 bil...
2023-03-0129 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastTwo Years After January 6th Insurrection, GOP Continues to Pose Threat to DemocracyStand Up America's Policy and Political Affairs Managing Director Brett Edkins: Two Years After Jan. 6 Insurrection, GOP Continues to Pose Threat to DemocracyPEN America's Freed Expression and Education Director Jonathan Friedman: Groups Organize to Fight Repressive Culture War Book Banning Across America Stop Cop City organizer Kei: Opponents of Atlanta’s ‘Stop Cop City’ Training Center Accused of Domestic TerrorismBob Nixon's Under-reported News SummaryChinese army patrol clash with Indian troops near TibetAn “electoral reform” in Mexico may make electi...
2023-01-1129 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastInternational BDS Movement Challenges Israel’s New Ultranationalist, Far Right GovernmentBoycott From Within member Ofer Neiman: International BDS Movement Challenges Israel’s New Ultranationalist, Far Right GovernmentInstitute for Policy Studies' Foreign Policy in Focus Director John Feffer: What Motivates Far Right Voters and How to Win Them BackDefending Rights and Dissent Policy Director Chip Gibbons: As U.S. Pursues Julian Assange Extradition, Press Freedom Groups Demand Charges be DroppedBob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary – Jan. 4, 2023Taiwan responds to Chinese military threatOmnibus legislation expands tax be...
2023-01-0429 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastThe Republican Party’s Devolution into a Violent, White Supremacist Threat to DemocracyThe Nation's national affairs correspondent John Nichols: The Republican Party’s Devolution into a Violent, White Supremacist Threat to DemocracySalon.com senior political writer Amanda Marcotte: Republicans Blame Single Women for Their Midterm Election LossesBoston University student Herbie Waters: Letter from US Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier Read at ‘Thanksgiving,’ Day of Mourning EventBob Nixon's Under-reported News SummaryNew leftist Colombia president takes new approach to cocaineBiden's green industrial policies not making green jobs good union jobsToxic metal pollution 10x worse i...
2022-11-3029 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastGOP’s Embrace of Violence Endangers U.S. DemocracyNew York University history professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat: GOP’s Embrace of Violence Endangers U.S. DemocracyClimate activists and Fossil Free Media Director Jamie Henn: Assessing the Good, Bad and Ugly at the UN’s COP-27 Climate SummitPlant the Land Team Co-Director Laura Schleifer: Project Brings Vegan Food to Palestinians in Gaza Suffering Under Israeli BlockadeBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • U.S. intelligence report says UAE meddled in American politics • Canadian indigenous communities set aside vast areas for protec...
2022-11-2329 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastDOJ Lags on Investigating Trump and GOP Coup AttemptFree Speech for People's Legal Director Ron Fein: DOJ Lags on Investigating Trump and GOP Coup AttemptFood and Water Watch's Policy Director Jim Walsh: With Senate Stalled, Pressure Growing on Biden to Take Immediate Action on Climate CrisisCitizens for Arsenal Accountability's Co-Chair Alyssa Carpenter: Virginia Group Demands Pentagon End Open Pit Burning of Toxic Military MunitionsBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary• Banks in China's Henan province freezing millions of dollars in depositor accounts• Hedge fund billionaire spends $54 million fighting tax increase for...
2022-07-2729 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastBiden's Middle East Trip: Long on Controversy, Short on AccomplishmentsCalifornia State University history professor David Yaghoubian: Biden’s Recent Middle East Trip: Long on Controversy, Short on AccomplishmentsPolitical Research Associates Senior Analyst Frederick Clarkson: Christian Extremists’ Embrace of Political Violence Threatens DemocracyNational Day Laborer Organizing Network Co-Executive Director Nadia Marin-Molina: Labor Department Issues New Protections for Exploited, Threatened Immigrant Workers Bob Nixon's Under-reported News SummaryPentagon waging secretive proxy wars in the Middle East and AsiaUber hired a Russian oligarch-linked lobbyist to start up operations in MoscowFood workers union bashes pension fund...
2022-07-2029 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastIn Midterm Election, Democrats Must Warn Voters of Dangerous Republican ExtremistsAuthor and NYC's 1st Public Advocate Mark Green: In Midterm Election, Democrats Must Warn Voters of Dangerous Republican ExtremistsCenter for International Policy & former CIA Analyst Mel Goodman: As the War in Ukraine Escalates, a Diplomatic Path to Ending the Conflict is Nowhere in SightNew Haven, CT civil rights attorney Ben Crump: Family of New Haven Man Paralyzed in Police Custody Demands Civil Rights Charges Against Officers Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary• 100,000 Mexicans are missing in Mexico's war on drug cartels...
2022-07-1329 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastSupreme Court Extremist Majority Rolls Back EPA Authority to Regulate Pollution, Carbon EmissionsCenter for Biological Diversity senior attorney Jason Rylander: Supreme Court Extremist Majority Rolls Back EPA Authority to Regulate Pollution, Carbon EmissionsRiseUp4AbortionRights organizer Emma Kaplan: Street Protest and Voting Both Essential to Win Back Reproductive RightsLos Angeles attorney Bill Blum: U.S. Supreme Court on Track to Impose Minority Rule, Whatever the CostBob Nixon's Under-reported News SummaryEcuador reaches economic deal with indigenous protestersButtigieg isn't using his power to go after airline price gougingWarming takes toll on Rio Grande River, with...
2022-07-0629 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastBetween The Lines (broadcast affiliate version) - June 29, 2022National Lawyers Guild Past President Marjorie Cohn: Overturning Roe v. Wade: American Women Now Second Class CitizensUniversity of Illinois professor emeritus Francis Boyle: Supreme Court’s ‘Originalists' on Path to Overturn FDR New Deal, Warren Court PrecedentsUniversity of California professor Dr. James G. Kahn: Universal Healthcare Could Have Prevented More Than 300,000 U.S. COVID DeathsBob Nixon's Under-reported News SummaryMuslim protests erupt in cities across IndiaBillionaire Peter Thiel aspires to be architect of American rightTenants fight private equity predatorsVisi...
2022-06-2929 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastOverturning Roe v. Wade: American Women Now Second Class CitizensNational Lawyers Guild Past President Marjorie Cohn: Overturning Roe v. Wade: American Women Now Second Class CitizensUniversity of Illinois professor emeritus Francis Boyle: Supreme Court’s ‘Originalists' on Path to Overturn FDR New Deal, Warren Court PrecedentsUniversity of California professor Dr. James G. Kahn: Universal Healthcare Could Have Prevented More Than 300,000 U.S. COVID DeathsBob Nixon's Under-reported News SummaryMuslim protests erupt in cities across IndiaBillionaire Peter Thiel aspires to be architect of American rightTenants fight private equity predators
2022-06-2929 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastRepublicans and Christian Nationalists Support Jan. 6 Insurrection, Condone Political ViolenceDaily Beast columnist and author Wajahat Ali: Republicans and Christian Nationalists Support Jan. 6 Insurrection, Condone Political ViolenceCenter for Economic and Policy Research program director Alexander Main: Colombians Elect Gustavo Petro, Nation’s First Leftist President Illinois congressional candidate Eric Sorensen: Meteorologist Turned Congressional Candidate Addresses Climate ChangeVisit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. New episodes every Wednesday at 12 noon ET, website updated Wednesdays after 4 p.m...
2022-06-2229 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastWill Jan. 6 House Investigation Lead to Accountability for Trump and Coup Co-Conspirators?Gaslit Nation podcast co-host Sarah Kendzior: Will Jan. 6 House Investigation Lead to Accountability for Trump and Coup Co-Conspirators?Scientist Rebellion ecologist Malik Morrison: Environmental Scientist Joins Campaign to Stop Mountain Valley Fracked Gas PipelinePoor People's Campaign Co-Chair Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis: June 18th March on Washington Demands Action on Rising U.S. PovertyBob Nixon's Under-reported News SummaryNonviolent independent Kashmir activist sentenced to life in prisonDoes inflation or abortion matter more in swing statesTrailer park residents take on venture capitalists...
2022-06-1529 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastGroups Work to Stop Disinformation and Protect 2022 Mid-term ElectionsCommon Cause Program Director Yosef Getachew: Groups Work to Stop Disinformation to Protect 2022 Mid-term ElectionsAnti-Pipeline Activist Becky Crabtree: West Virginia Novelist Fights Mountain Valley PipelineMedia for Matters senior researcher Andrew Lawrence: UnFoxMyCableBox Campaign Targets Fox News’ Toxic Rhetoric That Provokes ViolenceBob Nixon's Under-reported News SummaryHunger spreads in Afghanistan due to U.S.-led freeze on government assetsEnvironmentalists urge reform to 150-year-old mining lawFair lending advocates urge overhaul of 1977 Community Reinvestment ActVisit our website at BTLonline.org for mo...
2022-06-0829 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastBiden Upends ‘Strategic Ambiguity’ on Taiwan Over U.S. Response to a Future Chinese AttackFormer Defense for International Security Affairs Assistant Secretary of Defense Chas Freeman: Biden Upends ‘Strategic Ambiguity’ on Taiwan Over US Response to a Future Chinese Attack Newtown Action Alliance Chairwoman Po Murray: Texas School Massacre Provokes Renewed Demand for Widely Supported Gun Regulation West Virginia Rivers Coalition Program Director Autumn Crowe: Walk for Appalachia’s Future Highlights Mountain Valley Pipeline’s Threat to Endangered SpeciesBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary Australia's climate election ousts conservativesAmerica’s hunger for beef fuels Amazon rainforest destructionOakland closes students' digi...
2022-06-0129 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastGOP’s Embrace of ‘Replacement Theory’, Violence Endangers U.S. DemocracyNew York University Italy History professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat: GOP’s Embrace of Violence Endangers U.S. DemocracyPrison Policy Communications Strategist Wanda Bertram: Northeastern Governors Did Little to Grant Clemency to Prisoners Endangered by Coronavirus PandemicGroundwork Collaborative Director of Policy and Research Mike Mitchell: Corporate Price Gouging Exploits InflationBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:• Gold mining boom ravages Myanmar• South African energy workers struggle for clean public power• Fight erupts in Iowa over carbon capture pipelinesVisit our website...
2022-05-2529 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastPalestinian-American Journalist's Murder Provokes Demands for Independent Investigation & AccountabilityInstitute for Policy Studies fellow Phyllis Bennis: Palestinian-American Journalist's Murder Provokes Demands for Independent Investigation & AccountabilityFree Jessica Reznicek support team member Charlotte Grubb: State Imposes Terrorism Charges Against Anti-Pipeline ActivistThe Lever Senior Editor Andrew Perez: GOP Targets Pro-Choice Activists for Peaceful Protests at Homes of Supreme Court JusticesBob Nixon's Under-reported News SummaryTurkey is makes diplomatic and corporate push into AfricaFrench left coalition to challenge Macron's neoliberal policiesTexas, a dangerous place to be a Latino workerVisit our website...
2022-05-1829 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastU.S. Goal to Degrade Russia’s Military Risks Dangerous Escalation Between Two Nuclear PowersQuincy Institute's Grand Strategy Director George Beebe: U.S. Goal to Degrade Russia’s Military Risks Dangerous Escalation Between Two Nuclear Powers Connecticut State Rep. Matt Blumenthal: Connecticut Passes 1st in Nation Comprehensive Bill Making State an Abortion Safe HavenThe Nation national affairs correspondent John Nichols: Demanding Accountability for America’s Coronavirus Criminals and ProfiteersBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary• Europe slaps new regulations on Big Tech• Pennsylvania GOP primary draws backing from billionaires• 30 years after the riots, how far has LA come?...
2022-05-1129 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastDemocracy Itself at Stake in Defeating the Republican Culture WarPeople for the American Way senior fellow Peter Montgomery: Democracy Itself at Stake in Defeating the Republican Culture War Extinction Rebellion co-founder Christina See: Extinction Rebellion Uses Nonviolent Resistance to Demand Urgent Action on the Climate CrisisFreePress.net senior counsel Nora Benavidez: Billionaire Elon Musk's Takeover of Twitter Another Symptom of Social Media's FailureBob Nixon's Under-reported News SummaryDozens of Russian organizations hackedCan Venezuela help the West drop Russian oil?No-knock raids sometimes fatal with little accountabilityVisit our website a...
2022-05-0429 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastCongressional Passage of War Powers Act Can End U.S. Complicity in Saudi-led Yemen War That's Killed Nearly 400,000Yemeni Alliance Committee chairwoman Jehan Hakim: 70 Groups Call for End to US Complicity in Saudi-led Yemen War that’s Killed Nearly 400,000Code Pink Women for Peace co-founder Medea Benjamin: Groups Working to Unfreeze Billions of Afghan Assets in US to Fund Humanitarian Aid Salon.com contributing writer Heather Digby Parton: GOP Openly Conspires to Steal the Next ElectionBob Nixon's Under-reported Weekly Summary:• Britain seeks to send refugees arriving via English Channel to Rwanda• Labor shortage stifles new US oil drilling in North Dakota
2022-04-2729 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastRussia-Ukraine War Exposes Human Rights, International Law Double StandardsUniversity of San Francisco's Stephen Zunes: Russia’s War in Ukraine Exposes Double Standards in International Law and Human Rights Gamers for Peace's Chris Velazquez: Gamers For Peace Reaches Out to Young People Offering Alternatives to Military ServiceNational Coalition Against Censorship's Chris Finan: Combating GOP Moral Panic and Classroom CensorshipBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary• Russian bankers have long hidden assets offshore• Marcos' son may become next Philippines president• Water is sacred on the Navajo Nation, and scarceVisit...
2022-04-2029 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastBig Oil Profiteering Amid Catastrophic War in UkrainePublic Citizen's Alan Zibel: Big Oil Profiteering Amid Catastrophic War in Ukraine Climate Activist Donna Shaunesey: Climate Activists Blockade Coal-waste Plant Enriching Sen. Manchin FamilyUniversity of Georgia Assistant Professor Allison Skinner-Dorkenoo: COVID Racial Disparities Made Many White U.S. Residents Less Supportive of Public Health MeasuresBob Nixon's Under-reported News SummarySri Lanka protesters defy president's cabinet shuffleAnti-corruption judge flees GuatemalaJustin Bibb’s election signals a new era in ClevelandVisit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, rel...
2022-04-1329 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastDiplomacy is Only Path to Decrease Danger of Ukraine War Escalation & Nuclear CatastrophePeace Action's Jon Rainwater: Diplomacy is Only Path to Decrease Danger of Ukraine War Escalation & Nuclear CatastropheNational Priorities Project's Lindsay Koshgarian: Biden’s New Pentagon Budget Prioritizes War and Militarization Over Human NeedFree Speech for People's John Bonifaz: DOJ Inaction on Trump Coup Attempt CondemnedBob Nixon's Under-reported News SummaryRussian Invasion shadows French electionCan Ethiopia’s ‘truce’ end its devastating civil war?In Appalachia, mine cleanup system has collapsedVisit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interview...
2022-04-0629 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastPreconditions Necessary to End Russia’s War in UkraineCenter for International Policy's Mel Goodman: Preconditions Necessary to End Russia’s War in UkraineNonviolence activist Kathy Kelly: U.S. Weapons Feed Yemen War and Humanitarian CrisisBeyond Extreme Energy's Ted Glick: Campaign Pushes Back Against Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Rubber Stamp of Fossil Fuel ProjectsBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary• Colombia presidential, legislative elections lean left• As the US focuses on Ukraine, Yemen starves• Due to redlining, 45 million Americans breathing dirtier air todayVisit our...
2022-03-3029 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastU.S. Must Support Ukraine-Russia Peace Talks to End the WarQuincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft's Marcus Stanley: To End the War US, Must Support Ukraine-Russia Peace TalksOxfam America's Robbie Silverman: New International Agreement on the Global Distribution of COVID Vaccines Criticized as InadequateCoalition on Human Needs's Deborah Weinstein: Activists Are Working to Fix the Broken U.S. Child Care SystemBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:- UAE chooses oil producers' solidarity over military allies- Africa's climate funding shortfall- Parole reform squabble leaves hundreds in New York jails
2022-03-2329 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastUkraine 'No Fly Zone' Could Ignite WWIIIInstitute for Responsible Statecraft's William Hartung: Dangers of Enforcing Ukraine 'No Fly Zone' and Urgent Need for Viable War Exit StrategyStand.earth's Nathan Taft: Amid Ukraine War, Climate Groups Call on Biden to Invoke Defense Production Act for RenewablesClimate Psychiatry Alliance's Lise Van Susteren: Climate Anxiety: Addressing the Psychological Effects of Global WarmingBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • U.S. thaws on Venezuelan oil sanctions while banning Russian oil • Clean energy demands could set off environmentally damaging mining booms• Turbo Tax maker...
2022-03-1629 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastUkraine War Underscores Urgent Need for Nuclear De-escalationRoots Action's Norman Solomon: Ukraine War Underscores Urgent Need for Nuclear De-escalationGreater Birmingham Alliance to Stop Pollution's Michael Hansen: Climate Activists Confront Formidable Influence Wielded by the Alabama Power CompanyJacobin Magazine's Alex N. Press: Starbucks Union Drive Catches Fire Across the USBob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary -Stunning fall for ex-Honduran president wanted in US -Investors bought record number of homes in minority neighborhoods in 2021 -Progressives gain a foothold in TexasVisit our website at BTLonline.org for...
2022-03-0929 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastUkraine-Russia War Ushers in More Dangerous New Cold War EraCenter for International Policy's Mel Goodman: After Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine, Can a Wider More Dangerous War with Russia be Averted?Author and nuclear activist Harvey Wasserman: In War With Russia, Ukraine’s 15 Nuclear Reactors Vulnerable to Attack & Catastrophic health impactsConnecticut state Sen. Marilyn Moore: Combating the Systemic Devaluation and Disregard for the Lives of Women of ColorBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary- France and allies begin withdrawal from Mali- Welfare is no substitute for a child tax cred...
2022-03-0229 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastExquisite Diplomacy Needed to Avert War in UkraineRetired Army Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson: How War Can be Averted in UkraineNewtown Action Alliance's Po Murray: Families of Sandy Hook School Massacre Victims Win Historic Suit Against Remington Arms CompanyUniversity of New Brunswick's David Hoffman: The Danger of Extremists Inside Canada’s ‘Freedom Convoy’Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • Top court frees Honduras environmental activists • Why Texas' power grid still hasn't been fixed • One in five would-be “Patriot Front” white supremacists tied to U.S. militaryVisit our website a...
2022-02-2329 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastEurope's Dependency on Russian Gas Key Element in Ukraine CrisisCanadian petrochemical economist John Foster: Nord Stream 2 Pipeline & Europe’s Need for Russian Gas, Key Elements in the Ukraine CrisisQuinnipiac University visiting professor Judge Angela C. Robinson: Critical Race Theory is Target #1 in GOP Culture WarFormer inmate Ramon Garcia: Connecticut Activists Continue Campaign to End or Restrict the Use of Solitary ConfinementBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:• Thousands protest in Argentina against debt deal• Biden begins crackdown on power plant pollution• Right-wing lobby driving laws protecting fossil fuel industry against boycotts...
2022-02-1629 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastThere's a Way for US and Russia to Save Face Over Ukraine CrisisThe Nation magazine's Katrina vanden Heuvel: There is a Way Out of the Ukraine Crisis Yale University's Jason Stanley: Republican Party Officially Endorses Political Violence as a Means to Gain PowerLeonard Peltier's Attorney Kevin Sharp: America’s Longest-Serving Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier Has COVID, Supporters Demand His ReleaseBob Nixon's Under-reported News SummaryOnce Europe's liberal Hope, Macron now prey to France's toxic populismNorth Korea tests largest missile since 2017Gun violence rising as GOP-run states resist tracking illegal gun traffickingFor more inf...
2022-02-0929 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastWhy Do U.S., U.K. See Russian Threat on Ukrainian Border, While Ukraine Does Not?University of Rhode Island's Nicolai Petro: Escalation of Rhetoric in Ukraine Crisis Risks ConflictPeople for the American Way's Marge Baker: Biden’s Historic Pledge to Nominate a Black Woman to Supreme CourtProtect Our Water, Heritage, Rights Coalition's Russell Chisholm: Mountain Valley Pipeline Opponents Encouraged as Federal Court Vacates Critical PermitsBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary• US halts Afghanistan humanitarian aid amid famine and sanctions• Coal and cryptocurrency win over wind power in North Dakota• Billionaires' Row homeless shelter opens after 4...
2022-02-0229 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastA Lawmaker Participated in 1/6 Insurrection. Does He Have a Right to Run for Congress?Free Speech for People's Ben Horton: Effort Underway to Challenge Rep. Madison Cawthorn's Right to Run for Public OfficeInstitute for Policy Studies's Chuck Collins: Taxing Extreme Global Wealth Could Lift 2.3 Billion People Out of PovertyCenter for Media and Democracy's Alex Kotch: Koch Network Funds War on COVID Public Health MeasuresBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary• Can Arab Gulf states coax Iran into new nuclear deal?• After Sudan's October coup, Biden support for democracy questioned• Farmworkers organizing to close wage gap
2022-01-2629 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastCanadian Scholar Warns America is Moving Toward Democracy Collapse & Right-wing DictatorshipCascade Institute's Thomas Homer-Dixon: Canadian Scholar Warns America is Moving Toward Democracy Collapse & Right-wing DictatorshipWitness Against Torture's Maha Hilal: After 20 Years, Human Rights Groups Continue to Demand Closure of U.S. Guantanamo PrisonUnited Mine Workers of America's Phil Smith: Mine Workers Union Split with Manchin on His Opposition to Biden’s Build Back Better BillBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary• Protesters call for action to prevent Bosnia sliding into war• On Mexico's southern border, the latest migration surge is Haitian•...
2022-01-1929 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastTrump & GOP Are Planning to Use the Constitution's 12th Amendment to Steal the Next ElectionInvestigative Reporter Greg Palast: Trump & GOP Are Planning to Use the Constitution's 12th Amendment to Steal the Next ElectionUniversity of Connecticut Assistant professor Amanda J. Crawford: Dissecting the GOP's 'Big Lie' and Other Toxic Conspiracy TheoriesCDC Epidemiologist Ellen Yard: Is There a Link Between the Pandemic and a Dramatic Rise in Suicide Attempts by Adolescent Girls?Bob Nixon's Under-reported News SummaryGermany calls nuclear power ‘dangerous’, rejects EU planAmazon is building warehouses in Trump-sponsored opportunity zonesTrump acolytes vie for key election oversight posts in US midtermsVisit our webs...
2022-01-1229 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastHalting NATO’s Eastward Expansion Would Help Resolve U.S.-Russia Ukraine CrisisMel Goodman: Halting NATO’s Eastward Expansion Would Help Resolve U.S.-Russia Ukraine CrisisRené Rojas: Major Challenges Ahead for Chile’s New Progressive PresidentKaren Igou and Coby Owens: Occupy Biden Protest Encampment Calls on President to ‘Declare a Climate Emergency’Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary• Kim Jong Un prioritizes nuclear program as vital to his regime• In Mexico, fertilizer used by farmers is fueling climate change• Liberal groups now spend more "dark money" from undisclosed donors than GOPVisit our website at BTLonline.org for more inform...
2022-01-0529 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastGrieving Father, Now Medicare4All Activist Responds to Manchin's Attempt to Kill Build Back Better BillPoor People's Campaign's Scott Desnoyers: Joe Manchin Derails Biden’s Build Back Better Human Infrastructure BillSierra Club's Adele Shraiman: New Report Finds U.S. Financial Sector the 5th Biggest Emitter of CO2 in the WorldThe Daily Poster's Andrew Perez: How Dark Money Bought a Supreme Court SeatBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:• Midsized autocracies are projecting more hard power• Maine’s new “right to food” could sprout legal challenges• Detroit removing problem highways to reconnect black neighborhoodsFor more informati...
2021-12-2929 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastMedia's Dishonest Coverage of Inflation Blames BidenCenter for Economic and Policy Research's Dean Baker: Corporate Media’s Dishonest Coverage of Inflation Blames BidenNational Iranian American Council's Jamal Abdi: Talks to Restore Iran Nuclear Deal Face Numerous ObstaclesEnvironment and Human Health's Nancy Alderman: Growth of Recreational Wood Burning Poses Risk to Human HealthBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary• Bolivia's vast lithium deposits for electric vehicles could help fight climate change• Global vaccine production fails as Pfizer & Moderna won't cooperate• NYC taxi drivers win some debt relief f...
2021-12-2229 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastToday's Russia-Ukraine Tensions Rooted in US Violation of US-Soviet AgreementUniversity of Arizona's David Gibbs: NATO Expansion Key to Understanding Rising Russia-Ukraine TensionsShadowProof.com's Kevin Gosztola: Jeopardizing Press Freedom, UK Court OKs WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Extradition to US Health in Harmony's Kinari Webb: Connecting Human Health & Environmental Health to Protect Indonesia’s RainforestBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary• Rohingya refugees sue Facebook for $150 billion• How Lahore became the world’s most polluted place• The Arctic could get more rain and less snow soonerFor more information, transcripts, related lin...
2021-12-1529 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastSupreme Court Poised to Overturn Women's Right to Abortion Based on 'Viability'Center for Reproductive Rights' Jenny Ma: Supreme Court Appears Poised to Overturn Roe v. Wade, Women’s Right to Abortion Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care's Kay Tillow: Trump-Era Program Continuing Under Biden Threatens to Privatize MedicarePitzer College's Suyapa Portillo Villeda: After Years of Corruption and Violence, Progressive, Female Candidate Wins Honduras Presidential ElectionBob Nixon's Under-reported News SummarySudan security forces fire tear gas at march against military ruleSecretive prisons that keep migrants out of EuropeStarbucks launches aggressive anti-union effort in upstate NY
2021-12-0829 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastBiden Needs to Carve Out or End Filibuster to Save Voting Rights Act & DemocracyPeople for the American Way's Ben Jealous: December Deadline Looms for Senate Democrats to Pass Critical Voting Rights LegislationBlackRock's Morris Pearl: U.S. Tax Code Must be Rewritten to Compel America’s Wealthiest Pay Their Fair SharePresente.org's Matt Nelson: California Proposes New Rule Banning New Oil Wells Within 3,200 Feet of Homes and SchoolsBob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary• FBI investigating Erik Prince's role in failed arms sale in Libya• South Africa is one of the world's most unequal countrie...
2021-12-0129 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastGun Culture is Empowering Those Who Want to Use Violence With ImpunityNew York University's Ruth Ben-Ghiat: GOP’s Embrace of Violence Endangers U.S. DemocracyPeace activist Kathy Kelly: With Freeze of Assets, Millions of Afghan Civilians Face Famine PayDay Report's Mike Elk: The Sacrifice of Essential Workers During Pandemic Led to Mass Resignations and Labor StrikesBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:• U.S. journalist Danny Fenster freed from Myanmar prison• Uzbek president scores second term in landslide victory• The corporate state of DelawareVisit our website a...
2021-11-2429 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastCOP26's Generation Gap: Young Activists Still See 'Too Little, Too Late' Action on Looming Climate EmergencyInside Climate News' Delger Erdenesanaa: Youth Climate Activists in Glasgow Demand MoreTrue North Research's Lisa Graves: Let Joe Biden Know Trump’s Postmaster General DeJoy Has Got to Go Libraries Without Borders' Aaron Greenberg: Libraries Without Borders Provides Internet Access to Underserved Communities WorldwideBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary• Many nations underreport their global emissions• UN Security Council extends peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara• Thousands of black farmers forced off their land since the 1980sVisit our websi...
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2020-12-0929 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastBetween The Lines - Dec. 2, 2020• University of San Francisco's Stephen Zunes: Assassination of Top Iranian Scientist Strengthens Tehran's Hardliners• Organic Consumers Association's Ronnie Cummins: Post-Election Call to Action on Healthy Food, Sustainable Farming, Climate and Racial Justice• United American Indians of New England's Matowin Munro: Thanksgiving 'Day of Mourning' Event Commemorates Ongoing Struggle of Indigenous People in North America• Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary – Mexico may become 3rd nation to legalize cannabis – Biden must end Yemen war he helped start – Banning drilling on public lands won’t be easy for...
2020-12-0229 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastBetween The Lines - Nov. 25, 2020• American Constitution Society's Caroline Fredrickson: After Trump, Reforms Must be Undertaken to Protect Democracy from Future Autocratic Presidents• University of Connecticut's Christopher Vials: Resisting Trump-GOP Authoritarianism Requires a Big Tent Coalition• Honor the Earth's Winona LaDuke: Opponents Organize to Resist Minnesota Approval of Line 3 Pipeline Project• Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:– Russia plans to build its first naval base — in Sudan– Will Biden-Harris confront India's Modi on human rights?– Tyson managers bet money on how many workers would get COVIDVisit our webs...
2020-11-2529 minBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcastBetween The Lines - Nov. 18, 2020• Democracy for America's Charles Chamberlain: Democrats Debate Blame for Election House Losses• Center for International Policy's Mel Goodman: Trump Mass Firings at Pentagon: Retribution for 'Disloyalty' or Preparations for A Coup?• Media Matters for America's Matt Gertz: Trump Views Fox News as his Propaganda Channel, When it Veers Off-Script He Retaliates• Bob Nixon's Under-reported News: -15 Hong Kong lawmakers resign over ouster of pro-democracy colleagues - Masked up, ready to battle mosquitos & viruses - Biden’s first appointees are a mixed bag
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