Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcast

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: the history and consequences of two U.S. wars with Iraq; increasing disparity in wealth in the U.S.; coverage of the global social justice movement and related protests challenging the free trade, corporate-driven policies of the World Trade Organization and World Bank/International Monetary Fund; post-9/11 erosion of civil liberties; constitutional protections and international law 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.Squeaky Wheel Productions is our 501(c)(3) nonprofit production company and distributor. This consumer podcast may occasionally contain a fundraising pitch. 233680

On Fourth Anniversary of Jan. 6th Insurrection, Democracy is on the Ropes

Journalist and author Sasha Abramsky: On Fourth Anniversary of Jan. 6th Insurrection, Democracy is on the RopesElbit Out of South Carolina Coalition organizer Chris Tittle: South Carolina Activists Protest Israeli Arms Maker Whose Weapons are Used in Gaza GenocideCenter for American Progress' Senior Director Kate Kelly: Campaign Urges Biden to Publish Equal Rights Amendment Before Leaving OfficeBob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary• Election protests disrupt Mozambique• Enbridge oil spill e...

01-08
29:00

Trump-GOP Attack on Transgender Community Elicits Disturbingly Weak Democratic Party Response

Present Age Newsletter Editor Parker Malloy: Trump-GOP Attack on Transgender Community Elicits Disturbingly Weak Democratic Party ResponseThe Editorial Board Editor John Stoehr: Understanding America’s Broken Media Landscape Promoting Right-wing Disinformation and Influencing Election OutcomesNational Association of Defense Lawyers President Chris Wellborn: Last Chance Campaign Asks Biden to Release Leonard Peltier Before Leaving OfficeBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary• Western oil mone...

01-01
29:00

UN Urged to Hold Israel Accountable for Monstrous Violations of International Law in Gaza

World Beyond War board president Kathy Kelly: UN Urged to Hold Israel Accountable for Monstrous Violations of International Law in GazaSouthern Poverty Law Center Interim Director Rachel Carroll Rivas: White Supremacist Hate Groups’ Growing Threat as Trump Takes OfficeThird Act Upstate New York activist Michael Richardson: Climate Activists Protest Demands NY Gov. Hochul Sign ‘Make Polluters Pay’ Bill Before Year EndsBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary• Trump 2.0 chaos likely to extend to...

12-25
29:00

Trump’s Frighteningly Bizarre Cabinet Nominees May Get Free Ride From Spineless GOP Senators

Salon.com Contributing Editor Heather Digby Parton: Trump’s Frighteningly Bizarre Cabinet Nominees May Get Free Ride From Spineless GOP SenatorsAmerica's leading public interest lawyer & consumer advocate Ralph Nader: Ralph Nader Assesses Election Outcome, Democrats’ Multiple FailuresDeath Penalty Information Center Executive Director Robin Maher: Human Rights, Religious Groups Urge Biden to Commute Federal Death Sentences Before Trump Takes OfficeBob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary• ...

12-18
29:00

Unanswered Questions Persist After the Sudden Overthrow of Syria’s al-Assad Regime

Institute for Policy Studies' Phyllis Bennis: Unanswered Questions Persist After the Sudden Overthrow of Syria’s al-Assad RegimePloughshares Fund's Dr. John Carl Baker: Courageous South Koreans Rise Up to Block a Right-Wing CoupNational Immigration Law Center's Kica Matos: National Immigrant Advocacy Groups Prepared to Resist Trump’s Mass Deportation PlanBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary• Starvation threatens an estimated 500,000 in North Darfur• Municipal water systems need help to rep...

12-11
29:00

Eight Ways to Respond to Trump Election Victory Over the Next 4 Years

Former chairman of Ohio's Democratic party and author David Pepper: Eight Ways to Respond to Trump Election Victory Over the Next 4 YearsAuthor and Left Hook Substack columnist Wajahat Ali: Trump Voters Should Try to Understand Americans Who Oppose Their Convicted Felon PresidentThird Act climate activist Sheldon Pollock: Activists Demand NY Gov. Hochul Sign Law to Make Fossil Fuel Polluters Pay for Climate CostsBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary• Rohingya refugees recruited from Banglad...

12-04
29:00

How To Explain Voters’ Contradictory Support for Abortion and Trump?

The Nation's abortion access correspondent Amy Littlefield: How To Explain Voters’ Contradictory Support for Abortion and Trump?Women March Managing Director Tamika Middleton: Women’s March Organizing 1st Major Protest Jan. 18 to Challenge Trump Regime 2.0Climate activists Teagan Blackburn and Teya Blackburn-Baker: Protesters Disrupt FERC Hearing Highlighting the Climate Crisis Before Trump Dismantles Climate RegulationsBob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary• COP29 climate talks i...

11-27
29:00

How Democrats’ Failures Helped Traitor Trump Win Four More Years

Political strategist and author Rachel Bitecofer: How Democrats’ Failures Helped Traitor Trump Win Four More YearsAuthor and commentator Sarah Kendzior: Merrick Garland’s Delay in Prosecuting Trump Paved the Way to Establish His Mafia RegimeCo-chair New York Labor fo Palestine and Amazon Union Recording Secretary Sultana Hossain: As Israel’s Brutal Gaza War Continues, US Labor Movement Stands in Solidarity with the Palestinian PeopleBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary• Insurance companies...

11-20
29:00

Kamala Harris’ Defeat Linked to Neglecting Working Class Economic Discontent

Jacobin staff writer Branko Marcetic: Kamala Harris’ Defeat Linked to Neglecting Working Class Economic DiscontentUniversity of Pennsylvania professor Victor Pickard: Assessing Corporate Media’s Failures Covering 2024 Election CampaignPalestine Institute for Biodiversity & Sustainability Director Mazin Qumsiyeh: As Israel’s War Kills 43,000 in Gaza, Jewish Settlers Carry Out Ethnic Cleansing in West BankBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary• Democrat party lost swing states and rural Am...

11-13
29:00

After Trump’s Election Victory, Progressive Activists Ponder What Went Wrong for Democrats

The Nation magazine's National Affairs Correspondent John Nichols: After Trump’s Election Victory, Progressive Activists Ponder What Went Wrong for DemocratsYale philosophy professor and author of "Erasing History" Jason Stanley: Whether Trump Wins or Loses MAGA State Governments will Continue their RepressionFree Press senior counsel Nora Benavidez: Disinformation Floods U.S. Election Campaign Fueling Anger and Distrust of Electoral OutcomeBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary• Women are d...

11-06
29:00

Media’s Sanitizing of Trump’s Candidacy is Journalistic Malpractice

The Nation's D.C. Bureau Chief Chris Lehmann: Media’s Sanitizing of Trump’s Candidacy is Journalistic MalpracticeRutgers University law professor and author David Noll: New Book, ‘Vigilante Nation,’ Describes MAGA’s State-Based Attack on DemocracyNational Immigration Law Center President Kica Matos: As Trump Demonizes and Scapegoats Immigrants, Democrats Adopt Some Trump PoliciesBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary• Russia's war in Ukraine has upset balance of power in Turkic region• New v...

10-30
29:00

Trump Doubles Down on Fascist Agenda as 2024 Campaign Nears End

Yale University professor and author Jason Stanley: Trump Doubles Down on Fascist Agenda as 2024 Campaign Nears EndGeorgetown University Justice and Peace Studies lecturer Josh Ruebner: As Wider Middle East War Looms, Most Voters Support US Arms Cutoff to IsraelSeed the Vote volunteer Dr. Kate Sugarman: Physician Canvassing for Harris in Philly Suburbs, While Opposing U.S. Gaza PolicyBob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary UAE, Iran secretly fueling Sudan’s bloody civil war with armsHarr...

10-23
29:00

Trump, GOP Preparing to Undermine Presidential Election Results if They Lose

Rolling Stone contributor Justin Glawe: Trump, GOP Preparing to Undermine Presidential Election Results if They LoseNew York Times best-selling author Andra Watkins: Under Trump, Project 2025 Would Sabotage Federal Storm Forecasting and Disaster Relief350.org U.S. Partnerships Coordinator Nico Udu-Gama: If Completed, the East African Oil Pipeline Will be a Destructive ‘Carbon Bomb’Bob Nixon's Under-reported News SummaryBolsonaro still shapes Brazil’s political rightAfter decades, still no cle...

10-16
29:00

US Media Sanitizes US Role in Israel’s Savage War in Gaza and Lebanon

RootsAction Co-Founder Norman Solomon: US Media Sanitizes US Role in Israel’s Savage War in Gaza and LebanonMedia critic Parker Molloy: Corporate Media is ‘Sanewashing’ Trump’s Obvious Cognitive DeclineClimate activist Sydney Collins: As Hurricanes Ravage the Southeast U.S., Fossil Fuel’s Destructive Infrastructure Impacts Rural CommunitiesBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary• Sri Lanka elects leftist president to pressure IMF debt repayment reduction• National Labor Relations Board files ...

10-09
29:00

Israel’s Series of Assassinations, Lebanon Invasion Puts Middle East on Brink of Regional War

Institute for Policy Studies' John Feffer: Israel’s Series of Assassinations, Lebanon Invasion Puts Middle East on Brink of Regional WarAnti-Gaza war protester Gregory Daly: As Netanyahu Addresses UN General Assembly, Americans Protest Israel’s Genocide in GazaConsortium News Editor-in-Chief Joe Lauria: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken Condemned for Advocating Reckless Action in Ukraine WarBob Nixon's Under-reported News SummaryGrowth-based climate framework is fundamentally brokenPopulis...

10-02
29:00

The US Stands with Israel as Middle East on the Brink of All-Out-War

University of Wisconsin's Jennifer Loewenstein: Escalating Cross-Border Attacks Between Israel and Hezbollah Could Erupt into All-Out WarThe Nation magazine's Abortion Access Correspondent Amy Littlefield: Trump’s Abortion Ban is Now Literally Killing WomenThird Act Virginia organizer Lisa Finn: Gulf Coast Residents, Climate Activists Oppose FERC Approval of New LNG Export TerminalsBob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary – Sept. 25 2024New banking crisis between Libya's ruling head...

09-25
29:00

Donald Trump’s Repeated Stochastic Terrorism Now Endangers Haitian Immigrants in Ohio

Author and columnist Wajahat Ali: Donald Trump’s Repeated Stochastic Terrorism Now Endangers Haitian Immigrants in OhioStop the Money Pipeline Executive Director Alec Connon: 13-Week ‘Summer of Heat’ Climate Protest Building Movement to End Fossil Fuel FinancingSinger/songwriter Billy Bragg Reflects on His 40 years of Political Activism and the Power of MusicBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary• EU’s top court rules Apple must pay back taxes• Project 2025 regulates the nation’s public land...

09-18
29:00

'The Inflection Election' Warns Voters of Fascist Threat Posed by Trump in 2024

Former NYC Public Advocate Mark Green: New Book Warns Voters of Fascist Threat Posed by Trump in 2024 ElectionMaine Voices for Palestinian Rights Co-chair Abigail Fuller: Portland, Maine City Council Votes for Israel Divestment Resolution Over Gaza WarGaza Peace Activist Bob Sanders: Retired Journalist Bikes to Washington, D.C., Building Opposition to Israel’s Gaza WarBob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary• Mexico's lower house passes controversial judicial reform• German far-righ...

09-11
29:00

Gaza War Slaughter Continues as Massive Israeli Protests Blame Netanyahu for Latest Hostage Deaths

Arab American Institute President James Zogby: Gaza War Slaughter Continues as Massive Israeli Protests Blame Netanyahu for Latest Hostage DeathsClimate Defiance activist Ethan Wright: Activists Protest Federal Reserve Climate Policy, Block Road to Wyoming Annual SymposiumFree Press senior counsel Nora Benavidez: Coalition Demands U.S. News Media Aggressively Cover Election Campaign Threats to DemocracyBob Nixon's Under-reported News SummaryU.S. sanctions former Haitian presidentRight-wing cr...

09-04
29:00

U.S. Doctor Shares His Eyewitness Account of Gaza War Horrors

Pediatrician Dr. Ahmad Javed Yousaf: U.S. Doctor Shares His Eyewitness Account of Gaza War HorrorsNew York Times Pulitzer prize-winning journalist James Risen: Trump’s Racism is the Primary Driver of His Voter SupportThe Sentencing Project's Joshua Rovner: Youth Incarceration in the U.S. Declines, but Racial Disparities PersistBob Nixon's Under-reported News SummaryObscure strategy wreaked short-lived havoc on global marketsUS neo-Nazi terror group aims to revive activitiesArizona schools don...

08-28
29:00

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