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Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcast

Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcast

Author: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus and Bob Nixon

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Between The Lines is a weekly syndicated half-hour radio newsmagazine featuring progressive perspectives on national and international political, economic and social issues. Since 1991, Between The Lines has provided in-depth, timely analysis on a wide range of political, economic and social issues including:  increasing disparity in wealth in the U.S.; the crisis in the U.S. health care system; international grassroots mobilization to confront global climate change; racism permeating the prison industrial complex; and efforts to repair flaws in the U.S. electoral system.

In recent years, our coverage has raised the alarm about Donald Trump and the Republican party’s ongoing fascist threat to America’s democratic institutions. We believe that accurately and bluntly communicating this threat is vital to mobilizing the American people to defend civil society, civil liberties and our multiracial democracy. It’s critical that media outlets counter corporate media’s constant “sanewashing” and sanitizing of Trump and the GOP’s embrace of political violence and contempt for the U.S. Constitution. Trump 2.0 has shown itself to be even far worse than expected in these past few months, with the widespread dismantling of our government and vital social services, the lawlessness of weaponizing the Department of Justice, the targeting law firms and universities to bend them to his will -- and the downright cruelty to the nation's most vulnerable in our communities. Squeaky Wheel Productions is our 501(c)(3) nonprofit production company and distributor. This consumer podcast may occasionally contain a fundraising pitch. 233680

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Code Pink Women for Peace co-founder Medea Benjamin: Trump Marching to War with Venezuela Unless Congress Intervenes Palestinian anti-apartheid activist Mazin Qumsiyeh: Israel Increases Repression and Attacks on the Local Economy in Occupied Palestinian West Bank Free Speech for People co-founder and President John Bonifaz: Impeachment: The Antidote to Trump’s Authoritarian Presidency Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • One Afghan emigré's alleged crime causes crackdown on all Afghan im...
Social Security Works Executive Director Alex Lawson: Expiring ACA Subsidies Accelerate America’s Healthcare Disaster and 51,000 Preventable Deaths Psychotherapist, author, and Duty to Warn founder John Gartner: Trump’s Cognitive Decline is More Obvious Every Day Columbia University Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil: Mahmoud Khalil’s Lawsuits Seek Accountability for Trump Effort to Suppress Palestinian Activism in U.S. Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • Growing Israeli occupation in ...
Eisenhower Media Network Associate Director Matthew Hoh: U.S. War Crime Attacks on ‘Drug Boats’: A Prelude to U.S. Attack on Venezuela Yale Law School professor Bruce Ackerman: Supreme Court Hears Case that Could Further Increase Trump’s Unchecked Executive Power Journalist and author Nell Bernstein: New Book In Our Future We Are Free Recounts 25-Year Campaign that Cut U.S. Youth Incarceration 75% Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • Major cuts in AIDS treatment, prevention to spik...
Veterans for Peace board member Gerry Condon: Credible Accusations of Trump-Pentagon War Crimes Reported Journalist and author Sasha Abramsky: Is the Trump-GOP Authoritarian Nightmare Unraveling? Prison Policy Initiative communications strategist Wanda Bertram: 34 Urgent Criminal Justice Reform Bills State Legislatures Can Pass in 2026 Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • World's second largest rainforest, the Congo Basin, is most overlooked in climate policy • Establishment progressive ...
Physicians for a National Health Program President Dr. Diljeet Singh: Deepening U.S. Healthcare Crisis Demands Radical Transformation, Not Band-Aids National Alliance to End Homelessness CEO Ann Oliva: Under Trump’s New Homelessness Policy, Nearly 200,000 Will Lose Housing Friends of the Earth U.S. Finance Policy Advocated Zimyl Adler: COP30 UN Climate Summit in Brazil, Another Disappointing Outcome Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • Big Ag, fossil fuel industry lobbyists derail COP30...
Yale School of Public Health's Nathaniel Raymond: Sudan’s Civil War Unleashed Worst Active Genocide and Famine in the World Today University of Wisconsin's former Associate Director of Middle East Studies Jennifer Loewenstein: The Dire Situation for Palestinians Living in Post-Ceasefire Gaza Salon.com columnist Heather Digby Parton: Trump Drowning in Epstein File Scandal Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary: • Venezuelans deported by Trump to CECOT tortured • U.S. sold sniper rifles to no...
RootsAction.org co-founder Norman Solomon: After Government Shutdown Surrender, It’s Clearer Than Ever Democrats Must Overhaul Their Strategy The Indypendent Editor-in-Chief John Tarleton: Mamdani’s Uncompromising Progressive NYC Mayoral Victory Inspires Hope for U.S. Politics University of California Santa Barbara sociology professor William I. Robinson: Linking the Growing Global Economic Crisis to Rising Austerity and Repression Between The Lines' Under-reported News Summary • NYC Mayor-El...
ACLU Senior Policy Counsel Chad Marlow: Trump’s National Security Memo Labels His Enemies Terrorists, Orders Investigations Center for Budget and Policy Priorities Executive Vice President for Policy and Program Development Peggy Bailey: Judge Forces Trump to use Contingency Funds to Restore SNAP Benefits to Nation’s Poor Families Artist and activist Robert Shetterly: ‘Americans Who Tell the Truth’ Portraiture Project Aims to Inspire Courageous Citizenship Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summ...
Institute for Policy Studies' Phyllis Bennis: Deliberate Omissions in Gaza Ceasefire Agreement Endanger Future of 2.3 Million Palestinians Democracy in Color podcast host Steve Phillips: Supreme Court Poised to Overturn Voting Rights Act, Imperiling U.S. Multi-Racial Democracy Louisiana commercial fisherman Eddie Lejuine: LNG Terminals Decimate Louisiana’s Once Thriving Commercial Fishing Industry Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary • Afghanistan and Pakistan engage in deadly border batt...
CODEPINK World Court Campaign Coordinator Robert Jereski: After Gaza Hostage/Prisoner Exchange, Ceasefire Lacks Enforcement Mechanisms U.S. Marine veteran Bryce Lockwood: Recounting Israel’s 1967 Attack on U.S. Research Ship during Six-Day War and Its Lasting Impact Former health insurance executive turned whistleblower Wendell Potter: Federal Government Shutdown Exposes Crisis in Long Failing U.S. Healthcare System Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro, convicted ...
Center for International Policy Senior Fellow Mel Goodman: Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act as He Expands Military Occupation of U.S. Cities Furloughed HHS federal worker Danny Tsoi: Federal Workers, Jobs on the Line, Support Shutdown to Save Endangered Healthcare Programs 7 Directions of Service Co-Founder Crystal Cavalier-Keck: UN Climate Week Events Feature Presentations on the ‘Rights of Nature’ Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • India detains popular Ladakh, Himalayas r...
The Rutherford Institute President John Whitehead: Rapidly Moving the U.S. Toward a Police State, Trump Labels Critics ‘Domestic Terrorists’ Oxfam CEO Abby Maxman: Trump Closure of USAID Humanitarian Relief Programs Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands Documentary filmmaker Rick Goldsmith: Documentary ‘Stripped for Parts’ Examines Vulture Capital’s Role in Demolishing Local Newspapers Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • Trump cronies still fixated on annexing Greenland, where social...
Free Press General Counsel Matt Wood: Trump’s FCC Takes Action to Suppress Free Speech University of Arizona professor emerita epidemiologist Elizabeth Jacobs: RFK Jr.’s War Against Vaccinations and Science Reaches New Dangerous Phase Gulf of Mexico Youth Climate Summit Co-Founder Armon Alex: Petrostate Tour of U.S. Capitol Shines Light on Fossil Fuel Industry’s Attack on Environment/Climate Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • Refugees from Western Sahara fuel humanitarian crisis in Alg...
Independent journalist Justin Glawe: Trump Exploits Charlie Kirk's Murder, Vowing to Investigate and Dismantle Progressive Left Groups Connecticut Visibility Brigade founder Katherine Hinds and defense attorney Margaret Donovan: Protest Leader Arrested for Exercising Free Speech Rights Youth climate activist and Fridays for Future Cape Cod lead organizer Madison Sheppard: ‘Make Billionaires Pay’ International Mobilization for Climate Justice Sept. 19-21 Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary...
Stand Up America's Brett Edkins: New Guardrails Must Be Enacted to Defend Democracy Against a Future Trump-like Dictatorship National Immigration Law Center attorney Hilda Bonilla: Trump’s Cruel & Traumatizing Attempt to Deport Guatemalan Children Temporarily Blocked by Federal Judge Center for International Policy and former CIA analyst Melvin Goodman: Trump’s Erratic and Destructive Foreign Policy Alienates Adversaries and Allies Alike Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • Global pl...
International human rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber: Will the U.N. Support a Plan That Could End Israel’s Gaza Genocide? Environmental Protection Network Executive Director Michelle Roos: Former EPA Staff Defend Federal Environmental Regulations Being Weakened or Eliminated by Donald Trump American Doom newsletter Editor Justin Glawe: A Desperate Trump Could Order the National Guard to Intervene in the 2026 Election Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • Mineral-rich Congo's peace negotiation...
Salon.com columnist Heather Digby Parton: Floundering Democrats Urged to Embrace FDR New Deal-Style Popular Economic Policies CT Students for a Dream Executive Director Tabitha Sookdeo: Effort Underway to Build Bridges Between Diverse Immigrant Communities Facing Trump Mass Deportation University of Washington's Dr. Ferric C. Fang: HHS Secretary RFK Jr. Cuts Federal mRNA Vaccine Research Funding, Endangering Public Health Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • More than 1,500 civilians may...
Partnership for Civil Justice Fund's Mara Verheyden-Hilliard: Trump’s Militarized Occupation of Washington, D.C. a Rehearsal for Takeover of Other U.S. Cities Professor Jason Stanley: Authority on Totalitarianism Leaves U.S. for Canada to Fight International Fascism Stop Cop City defense attorney Xavier de Janon: Domestic Terrorism Charges Dismissed in One ‘Stop Cop City’ Defendant’s Trial Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • Respiratory disease is running rampant through "Alligator Alc...
Author David Daley: Trump and GOP’s Unprecedented Gerrymandering Scheme Aim to Rig 2026 Election 350.org US Campaign Manager Candice Fortin: Trump EPA to Eliminate Virtually All Climate Regulations and Research U.S. Gulf South climate activists Manny Robinson and Roishetta Ozane: Gulf South Activists in NYC Protest Banks’ and Insurance Companies’ Role in Exacerbating Climate Crisis Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and...
University of Wisconsin-Madison former associate director of Middle Eastern studies Jennifer Lowenstein: Netanyahu Moves to Militarily Re-Occupy Gaza as European Nations Plan to Recognize Palestinian State University of San Francisco's professor of philosophy Rebecca Gordon: Trump Authorizes a New More Dangerous Surveillance State Americans for Financial Reform's Kimberly Fountain: Trump Judge Eliminates Biden-Era Rule Removing Medical Debt from Consumer Credit Reports Bob Nixon's Under-repor...
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