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"Between the Lines" is a national, half-hour program that provides a platform for individuals and spokespersons from progressive organizations generally ignored or marginalized by the mainstream media.
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Former Israeli & Palestinian Combatants Tour U.S. Promoting Peaceful Settlement of Decades-Long Conflict
MP3 Interview with Maya Katz and Sulaiman Khatib, Israeli and Palestinian members of the group Combatants for Peace, recorded and produced by Melinda Tuhus
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Since mid-September, eight Israelis have been killed and 75 have been wounded in knife attacks carried out by Palestinians. During the month of October thus far, 45 Palestinians have been shot to death by the Israeli army and civilians in the West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, more than 1,800 others have been wounded by live ammunition, rubber bullets and beatings. Story continues
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Coalition Campaigns to Defeat Transpacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement in Congress
MP3 Interview with Jessa Boehner, international program associate with Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, conducted by Scott Harris
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On Oct. 5, the U.S. and 11 other nations concluded negotiations on the proposed Trans Pacific Partnership free trade agreement that is designed to integrate 40 percent of the world’s economy. The TPP, as it’s known, must still be voted on by the U.S. Congress, where a broad coalition of labor, environmental and consumer groups are working to defeat the controversial trade deal. Story continues
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American Corporations Shelter $2.1 Trillion in Offshore Profits, Withholding $620 Billion in U.S. Tax Revenue
MP3 Interview with Matthew Gardner, executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, conducted by Scott Harris
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Since well before Ronald Reagan was elected president in 1980, Republican and conservative politicians have railed against corporate taxes, arguing that high U.S. tax rates hurt the American economy and put a damper on the creation of jobs. By statute, profitable corporations are supposed to pay a 35 percent federal income tax rate on their U.S. profits, but in 2010, corporations based in the United States had an effective federal tax rate of just 13 percent on their worldwide income, 17 percent when state and local taxes are included. Story continues
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This week’s summary of under-reported news
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Compiled by Bob Nixon
Since the fall of the apartheid government in South Africa, economic inequality has surged creating a massive wealth gap between blacks and whites. Rising inequality, by some measures worse now than when the apartheid system fell, is also linked to a spike in violent crime. (“‘Black economic empowerment has failed’: Piketty on South African inequality,” The Guardian, Oct. 6, 2015; “Calls for inequality to be tackled in South Africa as violent crime rises,” The Guardian, Oct. 1, 2015)
In the late 1990s, heavily Catholic El Salvador enacted a penal law that outlawed nearly all abortions, including when the life of a pregnant mother is at risk. Over the years, the law has been aggressively enforced and a woman convicted of having an abortion could face 50 years in jail. (“These Salvadoran Women Went to Prison for Suffering Miscarriages,” The Nation, Oct. 6, 2015)
Conditions in a Google Express’ warehouse in Palo Alto, California are a far cry from the fun campus environment that has attracted many young computer programmers to the Internet giant. The staffing company Adecco that hires the workers imposes a two-year cap on employment and tolerates poor working conditions.(“Silicon Valley’s Labor Uprising,” In These Times, Sept. 7, 2015)
