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16:27

Trump EPA to Eliminate Virtually All Climate...

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2025/08/14

Interview with Candice Fortin, U.S. campaign manager with the climate group 350.org, conducted by Scott Harris.Candice Fortin provides an overview of the Trump regime’s multi-pronged attack on all federal climate regulations; the short- and long-term impact on the environment; what if anything states can do to implement their climate regulations and how climate/environmental activist groups like 350.org can challenge these policies both in court and in the streets.

28:29

Unprecedented Trump-GOP Gerrymandering Scheme in...

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2025/08/14

Interview with David Daley, former editor-in-chief of Salon, conducted by Scott Harris.David Daley discusses his recent Nation article, “How the GOP Hopes to Gerrymander Its Way to a Midterms Victory,” given what Trump and Republicans are doing to carve out five new GOP-leaning districts in Texas and what democracy defenders could and should be doing now to prevent the further erosion of our democratic system and ensure the integrity of elections in both the short and long term.Daley is the

51:39

Resistance Roundtable -- Aug. 9, 2025: Students...

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2025/08/12

Resistance Roundtable double header: --the fight against the genocide in Gaza with Branko Marcetic, staff writer with Jacobin Magazin; and Daniella Colombi, a graduate student at the U. of Maryland who led the fight that resulted in court settlement of $100,000 to the Students for Justice in Palestine by UMD --Connecticut re-groups to fight for a clean environment in the face of the Trump regime's dismantling of Federal climate regulations (featuring Samantha Dynowski, ED of the Sierra

5:57

At Trump's Urging Judge Eliminates Biden-Era Rule...

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2025/08/07

Interview with Kimberly Fountain, consumer financial justice field manager at Americans for Financial Reform, conducted by Melinda Tuhus.Between The Lines’ Melinda Tuhus spoke with Kimberly Fountain, consumer financial justice field manager at Americans for Financial Reform. Here she explains why medical debt shouldn’t be included in consumers’ credit ratings and the disparate impact it has on different communities.

14:10

Connecticut Must Prepare for Deep Federal Social...

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2025/08/07

Interview with Ayesha R. Clarke, executive director of the Connecticut-based Health Equity Solutions, conducted by Scott Harris.Ayesha Clarke discusses how the federal slashing of social safety net programs in Trump’s recently passed budget bill will impact Connecticut residents, and what Gov. Ned Lamont and the legislature can do to prepare and offset the pain and disruption to essential services serving the state’s most vulnerable residents.

21:16

Trump Authorizes New, More Dangerous Surveillance State

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2025/08/07

Interview with Rebecca Gordon, TomDispatch.com writer, longtime political activist, and adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco, conducted by Scott Harris.Rebecca Gordon discusses her important coverage of how the Trump regime is expanding the “surveillance state” targeting perceived enemies to extend and consolidate authoritarian power.Gordon taught philosophy at the University of San Francisco. A long-time political activist, she’s presently retired from teaching but remains

14:46

Is the Epstein Sex Scandal Distracting Attention from...

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2025/08/07

Interview with Richard W. Behan, a contributor to Counterpunch, conducted by Scott Harris.Richard Behan discusses his recent Counterpunch article, “The Peril of Spectacle, Especially Jeffrey Epstein’s,” explores where the deepening bipartisan suspicion and anger about Donald Trump’s expanding scandal may lead the country; and how it may serve as a distraction from the central, existential fight to defend democracy against Trump-Republican party fascism.

27:26

Netanyahu Moves to Militarily Re-Occupy Gaza as...

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2025/08/07

Interview with Jennifer Loewenstein, former associate director of Middle Eastern studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, conducted by Scott Harris.Jennifer Loewenstein examines the current famine crisis in Gaza; the Trump regime’s incoherent and dishonest policies toward Gaza and Palestinians; France, the U.K. and Canada’s plan to recognize a Palestinian state — and what, if any, difference that policy shift could make.

6:17

Activists Demand Los Angeles Public Transit System Do...

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2025/07/31

Interview with Scarlett de Leon, executive director of ACT-LA, conducted by Melinda Tuhus. Scarlett explains that after June ICE raids led to the arrests of hundreds of immigrants in Los Angeles. ACT-LA sent a letter to the L.A. County Metropolitan Transportation Authority asking for changes to strengthen protections for immigrants against ICE abductions.

15:55

For-Profit Corporate Healthcare Greed is Bankrupting...

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2025/07/31

Interview with Hannah Levintova, Mother Jones' magazine D.C. bureau reporter, conducted by Scott Harris.Hannah Levintova talks about her investigation featured in the Public Radio series, “Reveal,” titled, “The Landlord Gutting America’s Hospitals,” which examines how a real estate company buys up hospitals and then leases them back to healthcare systems, causing dozens of its hospitals to go bankrupt, close or be sold because profits were sucked out of them, resulting in the deterioration

17:18

New Documentary Film: ‘Gaza: Journalists Under Fire’...

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2025/07/31

Interview with Robert Greenwald, founder and president of Brave New Films, conducted by Scott Harris.Robert Greenwald talks about his new documentary titled, “Gaza: Journalists Under Fire,” which exposes Israel’s crimes against journalism and humanity, where more than 200 Gaza-based journalists have been killed since the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel — through the lives and deaths of Palestinian journalists Belal Jadallah, Heba Al-Abadla and Ismail al-Ghoul.Brave New World,

18:02

Israel’s Gaza Starvation Policy is Killing More...

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2025/07/31

Interview with Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Drop Site News Middle East and North Africa editor, conducted by Scott Harris.Sharif Abdel Kouddous discusses his coverage of Israel’s starvation campaign against Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinian civilians — and the Trump regime’s role in this war crime via the U.S.-backed “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” — as reported in his recent article, “Palestinians are Collapsing in Gaza’s Streets from Israeli-Imposed Starvation Campaign.” Kouddous received a

27:27

Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ National Defense System is...

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2025/07/31

Interview with Melvin Goodman, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, and professor of government at Johns Hopkins University, conducted by Scott Harris.Melvin Goodman, a former CIA analyst and author, discusses his recent Counterpunch commentary, “The Waste and Futility of the Golden Dome National Defense System,” estimated to cost between $161 billion and $542 billion over two decades, as well as the larger danger of expiring U.S.-Russia nuclear arms control treaties.

48:48

The Organic Farm Stand Show -- July 17, 2025

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2025/07/28

News and views from and to the organic community: -Hot Topics with Diane Lauricella -Small Farms Report by Steve Munno of Massaro Farm -Legislative update from CT NOFA by Dr. Kim Stoner -Special guest, Reggie St. Fort Colin discussing BIPOC farming and food justice issues in ConnecticutHosts: Richard Hill and Diane Lauricella

11:48

New Film Opposes Medical Assisted Suicide; Producers...

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2025/07/24

Interview with Joan Cavanagh, a founding member of Progressives Against Medical Assisted Suicide, conducted by Scott Harris.Joan Cavanagh talks about the new documentary film titled, “Thoughts on Medical Assisted Suicide,” which will be available for viewing online from July 23 through July 30, in honor of the 35th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which was signed into law on July 26, 1990.

21:20

Trump, GOP Purging Millions of Voters to Win 2026...

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2025/07/24

Interview with Greg Palast, author of several New York Times best-sellers including,The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, conducted by Scott Harris.Greg Palast talks about his recent investigations into the Trump-Republican party plan to win the 2026 midterm elections in 2025 by employing massive voter purges in purple states, racial gerrymandering, and voter suppression tactics.

20:00

Understanding Zohran Mamdani’s NYC Mayoral Primary...

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2025/07/24

Interview with John Tarleton, editor-in-chief of The Indypendent, New York City's free progressive monthly newspaper, conducted by Scott Harris.John Tarleton discusses his coverage of Zohran Mamdani’s surprise victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary and the obstacles ahead for his progressive campaign in the November election, where he’ll face both Mayor Eric Adams and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. He also considers what Mamdani’s rise could mean for progressive

25:40

U.S. Doctors Describe the Catastrophic Gaza Civilian...

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2025/07/24

Interview with Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a trauma and critical care surgeon, and Dr. Ayaz Pathan, an emergency room physician, conducted by Scott Harris.Dr. Feroze Sidhwa and Dr. Ayaz Pathan discuss their experiences working as physicians in Gaza; the ongoing slaughter and starvation of Palestinian civilians there; and their understanding of the mission of the Israeli-U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in distributing food that has resulted in hundreds of lives lost and the U.S. role in

40:33

Dr. Jack Rasmus' Forensics on the Big Bullsh**t Bill

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2025/07/21

Dr. Jack Rasmus, professor emeritus at St. Mary's College and author of The Scourge of Neoliberalism--US Economic Policy from Reagan to Trump, looks under the hood of the recently-passed MAGA tax and spending cut bill, and finds more of the putrefaction associated with neoliberalism and late-stage capitalism.Interview by Richard Hill

7:08

Can Israelis and Palestinians Find a Way to Live...

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2025/07/17

Excerpt of speech by Jonathan Kuttab, Palestinian-American human rights lawyer and author of Beyond the Two-State Solution, recorded and produced by Melinda Tuhus.Beyond the current bloody war and genocide in Gaza, people across the Middle East and world are asking whether or not the long-standing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians can ever be resolved. Jonathan Kuttab is a Palestinian-American human rights attorney who practices in the U.S., Palestine and Israel. Kuttab, a

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