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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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Netanyahu’s Arrogant Obstruction Signals Need to Change U.S.-Israeli Relations
Interview with Mel Goodman, former CIA analyst and director of the National Security Project at the Center for International Policy, conducted by Scott Harris
Republican House Speaker John Boehner upped the ante in his party’s confrontation with the Obama administration over U.S. nuclear talks with Iran when he opted not to consult the White House or State Department about inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress about Iran on March 3. Netanyahu, who is campaigning for a fourth term in Israeli’s March 17 election, is expected to urge support in Congress for new sanctions against Iran, despite warnings that the measure would derail ongoing negotiations with Tehran over its nuclear program. Story continues
Obama and West Remain Silent on Saudi Arabia’s Dismal Human Rights Record
Interview with Ali Al-Ahmed, director of the Institute for Gulf Affairs, conducted by Scott Harris
Saudi Arabia has been the focus of international news reports in recent weeks with the death of Saudi King Abdullah and the appointment of one of the late king’s younger brothers, Crown Prince Salman, as his successor. The oil-rich kingdom has also come under scrutiny for its recent sentencing of a 31-year-old blogger, Raif Badawi, to a 10-year prison sentence and 1,000 lashes over a period of 20 weeks for the alleged crime of insulting Islam. Badawi was arrested for criticizing his nation’s clerics on his Free Saudi Liberals blog. Story continues
New Report Documents ‘The Increasingly Unequal States of America’
Interview with Mark Price, labor economist, conducted by Melinda Tuhus
There’s been a lot of talk recently by U.S. politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, about the growing gap between America’s super rich and everyone else. Now a new study again confirms what many economists and Occupy Wall Street activists have been saying for years, that incomes have become so lop-sided that in some states, all the income gains since the start of the economic recovery in 2009 have gone to the top one percent. That’s why for many Americans it doesn’t feel like a recovery at all. Story continues
This week’s summary of under-reported news
Compiled by Bob Nixon
- Nearly 300 child soldiers in wartorn South Sudan were demobilized from an ethnic militia in late January, under an agreement negotiated by the United Nations Children’s Fund or UNICEF. (“First of 3000 child soldiers are released in South Sudan,” New York Times, Jan. 27, 2015; “Tears, chants as rebel child soldiers are freed in South Sudan,” Reuters, Jan. 27, 2015; “Inside the White House fight over the slaughter I South Sudan,” Foreign Policy, Jan. 26, 2015)
- Until recently, lack of electricity was a fact of life in most of rural Africa. Building power grids to remote villages in the subcontinent was too expensive, especially to farmers who earn less than $2 a day and live in chronic poverty. A new initiative to install small solar panels in homes will produce enough electricity to charge a cell phone or iPad, but not enough to power appliances like refrigerators. (“Africa’s solar revolution,” Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 26, 2015; “US efforts to Power Africa,” Council on Foreign Relations, Jan. 23, 2015)
- In his early days as governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie halted a federal-funded construction project to build a new passenger rail tunnel under the Hudson River that would have connected New York and New Jersey. (“Blind to the Future,” American Prospect, Winter 2015)
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