Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus and Bob Nixon

Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcast

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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...

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Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus and Bob Nixon

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Jul 8, 2026

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Episodes

Exquisite Diplomacy Needed to Avert War in Ukraine 23.02.2022

Retired Army Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson: How War Can be Averted in Ukraine Newtown Action Alliance's Po Murray : Families of Sandy Hook School Massacre Victims Win Historic Suit Against Remington Arms Company University of New Brunswick's David Hoffman: The Danger of Extremists Inside Canada’s ‘Freedom Convoy’ Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary  • Top court frees Honduras envir...

Europe's Dependency on Russian Gas Key Element in Ukraine Crisis 16.02.2022

Canadian petrochemical economist John Foster: Nord Stream 2 Pipeline & Europe’s Need for Russian Gas, Key Elements in the Ukraine Crisis Quinnipiac University visiting professor Judge Angela C. Robinson: Critical Race Theory is Target #1 in GOP Culture War Former inmate Ramon Garcia: Connecticut Activists Continue Campaign to End or Restrict the Use of Solitary Confinement Bob Nixon's Und...

There's a Way for US and Russia to Save Face Over Ukraine Crisis 09.02.2022

The Nation magazine's Katrina vanden Heuvel: There is a Way Out of the Ukraine Crisis   Yale University's Jason Stanley: Republican Party Officially Endorses Political Violence as a Means to Gain Power Leonard Peltier's Attorney Kevin Sharp: America’s Longest-Serving Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier Has COVID, Supporters Demand His Release Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summ...

Why Do U.S., U.K. See Russian Threat on Ukrainian Border, While Ukraine Does Not? 02.02.2022

University of Rhode Island's Nicolai Petro: Escalation of Rhetoric in Ukraine Crisis Risks Conflict People for the American Way's Marge Baker: Biden’s Historic Pledge to Nominate a Black Woman to Supreme Court Protect Our Water, Heritage, Rights Coalition's Russell Chisholm: Mountain Valley Pipeline Opponents Encouraged as Federal Court Vacates Critical Permits Bob Nixon's Unde...

A Lawmaker Participated in 1/6 Insurrection. Does He Have a Right to Run for Congress? 26.01.2022

Free Speech for People's Ben Horton: Effort Underway to Challenge Rep. Madison Cawthorn's Right to Run for Public Office Institute for Policy Studies's Chuck Collins: Taxing Extreme Global Wealth Could Lift 2.3 Billion People Out of Poverty Center for Media and Democracy's Alex Kotch : Koch Network Funds War on COVID Public Health Measures Bob Nixon's Under-reported News S...

Canadian Scholar Warns America is Moving Toward Democracy Collapse & Right-wing Dictatorship 19.01.2022

Cascade Institute's Thomas Homer-Dixon: Canadian Scholar Warns America is Moving Toward Democracy Collapse & Right-wing Dictatorship Witness Against Torture's Maha Hilal: After 20 Years, Human Rights Groups Continue to Demand Closure of U.S. Guantanamo Prison United Mine Workers of America's Phil Smith: Mine Workers Union Split with Manchin on His Opposition to Biden’s Build Bac...

Trump & GOP Are Planning to Use the Constitution's 12th Amendment to Steal the Next Election 12.01.2022

Investigative Reporter Greg Palast: Trump & GOP Are Planning to Use the Constitution's 12th Amendment to Steal the Next Election University of Connecticut Assistant professor Amanda J. Crawford: Dissecting the GOP's 'Big Lie' and Other Toxic Conspiracy Theories CDC Epidemiologist Ellen Yard: Is There a Link Between the Pandemic and a Dramatic Rise in Suicide Attempts by Ado...

Halting NATO’s Eastward Expansion Would Help Resolve U.S.-Russia Ukraine Crisis 05.01.2022

Mel Goodman: Halting NATO’s Eastward Expansion Would Help Resolve U.S.-Russia Ukraine Crisis René Rojas: Major Challenges Ahead for Chile’s New Progressive President Karen Igou and Coby Owens: Occupy Biden Protest Encampment Calls on President to ‘Declare a Climate Emergency’ Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • Kim Jong Un prioritizes nuclear program as vital to his regime • In Mexico,...

Grieving Father, Now Medicare4All Activist Responds to Manchin's Attempt to Kill Build Back Better Bill 29.12.2021

Poor People's Campaign's Scott Desnoyers: Joe Manchin Derails Biden’s Build Back Better Human Infrastructure Bill Sierra Club's Adele Shraiman : New Report Finds U.S. Financial Sector the 5th Biggest Emitter of CO2 in the World The Daily Poster's Andrew Perez : How Dark Money Bought a Supreme Court Seat Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary: • Midsized autocracies are pr...

Media's Dishonest Coverage of Inflation Blames Biden 22.12.2021

Center for Economic and Policy Research's Dean Baker : Corporate Media’s Dishonest Coverage of Inflation Blames Biden National Iranian American Council's Jamal Abdi : Talks to Restore Iran Nuclear Deal Face Numerous Obstacles Environment and Human Health's Nancy Alderman : Growth of Recreational Wood Burning Poses Risk to Human Health Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • B...

Today's Russia-Ukraine Tensions Rooted in US Violation of US-Soviet Agreement 15.12.2021

University of Arizona's David Gibbs : NATO Expansion Key to Understanding Rising Russia-Ukraine Tensions ShadowProof.com 's Kevin Gosztola : Jeopardizing Press Freedom, UK Court OKs WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Extradition to US  Health in Harmony's Kinari Webb : Connecting Human Health & Environmental Health to Protect Indonesia’s Rainforest Bob Nixon's Under-reported...

Supreme Court Poised to Overturn Women's Right to Abortion Based on 'Viability' 08.12.2021

Center for Reproductive Rights' Jenny Ma : Supreme Court Appears Poised to Overturn Roe v. Wade, Women’s Right to Abortion     Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care's Kay Tillow :  Trump-Era Program Continuing Under Biden Threatens  to Privatize Medicare Pitzer College's Suyapa Portillo Villeda : After Years of Corruption and Violence, Progressive, Female Candidate Wins Honduras...

Biden Needs to Carve Out or End Filibuster to Save Voting Rights Act & Democracy 01.12.2021

People for the American Way's Ben Jealous : December Deadline Looms for Senate Democrats to Pass Critical Voting Rights Legislation BlackRock's Morris Pearl : U.S. Tax Code Must be Rewritten to Compel America’s Wealthiest Pay Their Fair Share Presente.org 's Matt Nelson : California Proposes New Rule Banning New Oil Wells Within 3,200 Feet of Homes and Schools Bob Nixon’s Under-repo...

Gun Culture is Empowering Those Who Want to Use Violence With Impunity 24.11.2021

New York University's Ruth Ben-Ghiat : GOP’s Embrace of Violence Endangers U.S. Democracy Peace activist Kathy Kelly: With Freeze of Assets, Millions of Afghan Civilians Face Famine  PayDay Report's Mike Elk : The Sacrifice of Essential Workers During Pandemic Led to Mass Resignations and Labor Strikes Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary: • U.S. journalist Danny Fenster freed fr...

COP26's Generation Gap: Young Activists Still See 'Too Little, Too Late' Action on Looming Climate Emergency 17.11.2021

Inside Climate News' Delger Erdenesanaa: Youth Climate Activists in Glasgow Demand More True North Research's Lisa Graves: Let Joe Biden Know Trump’s Postmaster General DeJoy Has Got to Go   Libraries Without Borders' Aaron Greenberg: Libraries Without Borders Provides Internet Access to Underserved Communities Worldwide Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • Many nations un...

Without Actionable Plans & Penalties at UN Climate Summit, Catastrophic Global Warming Inevitable 10.11.2021

Independent Media Institute's Reynard Loki: Climate Activists Decry Lack of Progress at Glasgow’s UN Climate Summit RISE's Sharon Lavigne: Residents Rise Up to Oppose Construction of a Plastics Plant in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ Our Revolution's Joseph Geevarghese : Progressives Reject Blame for Democrats’ Election Losses Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • South Africa’...

'We're in danger of letting top officials who planned, promoted and facilitated Jan. 6, get away with insurrection' 03.11.2021

Free Speech for People's Ron Fein : Troubling Signs of Inaction from the Jan. 6 Insurrection Investigation  Code Pink Women for Peace's Jodie Evans : The Role of the Military in the Global Climate Crisis Goes Largely Unaddressed   Justice is Global's Ben Levenson : Activists: ‘Biden Must Take Action to Vaccinate the Global South. No One is Safe Until We Are All Safe.’ Bob Nixon’s Un...

Many Options in Billionaires Tax Legislation Could Help Fund Biden Build Back Better Plan 27.10.2021

Americans for Tax Fairness' Frank Clemente : Billionaires Tax May Win Support in Congressional Negotiations on Biden’s Build Back Better Plan Greenpeace USA's John Noël : Joe Manchin Succeeds in Killing Key Climate Provision in Democrats’ Reconciliation Bill Jewish Voice for Peace's Shelly Altman : Israel Designates Palestinian Human Rights Groups as Terrorists Bob Nixon's Unde...

Day In, Day Out: 4,000 Corporate Lobbyists Working to Derail Build Back Better Infrastructure Agenda 13.10.2021

End Citizens United's Tiffany Muller : Unlimited, Unaccountable Corporate Campaign Cash Killing Biden’s Human Infrastructure Bill Greenpeace European Unit's Silvia Pastorelli : Investigation Exposes Systematic Deceptive Marketing by Six Major European Fossil Fuel Companies Media Alliance's Tracy Rosenberg : Facebook Users Union’s #FireZuck Campaign  Bob Nixon's Under-reported N...

Progressives Hold Fast in Human Infrastructure Showdown with Conservative Democrats 06.10.2021

Truthout.org's William Rivers Pitt: Progressives Win Round One in Human Infrastructure Showdown Cornell University's Tony Ingraffea: Banks’ Immoral Investment in Fracking Leading to Climate Catastrophe ShadowProof.com's Kevin Gosztola: Investigation Exposes CIA Plot to Kidnap or Kill WikiLeaks’ Founder Julian Assange Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary - Biden's nuclea...

U.S. Government has Unused Tools to Address Global COVID Vaccination & End Pandemic 29.09.2021

Peter Maybarduk : It’s Past Time to Address the Global COVID Vaccination Shortfall Crisis Sikowis Nobis: Indian Schools Tool of Genocide Committed Against Indigenous Peoples of North America  Jemima Pierre: U.S. Border Patrol’s Brutalization of Haitian Refugees Part of Long History of Racist Immigration Policy Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • China pledges to stop financing overseas...

Gen. Milley Had No Authority to Prevent President Trump from Nuclear War 22.09.2021

Ploughshares Fund's Tom Collina : Unhinged Trump Drove Top U.S. General to Take Steps to Prevent Nuclear War Cleveland Clinic's Heather McKee Hurwitz : Occupy Wall Street 10 Years Later: Lessons Learned on Inclusion and Intersectionality Community First Coalition's Dave Cruz-Bustamante : School Resource Officers Aren’t the Answer to School Safety Bob Nixon's Under-reported News...

Shades of Historic Fascism in Jan. 6, Sept. 18 Pro-Insurrectionists, GOP Allies Rallies 15.09.2021

New York University's Ruth Ben-Ghiat:   Pro-Insurrectionists and GOP Allies Pose Clear, Present Danger to Democracy Everytown for Gun Safety's Justin Wagner : Right-Wing Protests with Firearms 9/11 Widow and  September 11 Advocates' Kristen Breitweiser: After 20 Years of Pressure, Biden Declassifies 9/11 FBI Report Re: Saudi Connections Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary •...

In Texas Abortion Law Ruling Supreme Court Moves Closer to Overturning Roe v. Wade 08.09.2021

National Women’s Liberation's Jenny Brown: In Texas Abortion Law Ruling Supreme Court Moves Closer to Overturning Roe v. Wade     National Priorities Project's Lindsay Koshgarian: New Report Reveals the High Cost of U.S. Militarism Since 9-11 Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network's Osprey Orielle Lake: virtual Global Assembly for Climate Justice to Address the Climate Crisis Thro...

Afghans are in a Desperate Situation and It's Going to Get Worse 25.08.2021

Afghans for a Better Tomorrow's Arash Azizzada : Afghan-American Community & Allies Demand  Biden Ensure Safety of Afghanistan's Most Vulnerable Hamline University's David Schultz : Holding Politicians Criminally Accountable for Deadly COVID Policies  Prison Policy Initiative's Leah Wang : Urgent Need to Improve Basic Standards for Imprisoned Pregnant Women and Their Infant...

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