Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcast

"Cult of Trump" author Steven Hassan: Cult Expert Concerned a Trump 2024 Defeat will Again Incite Supporters to Violence Climate Defiance activist Betty Moose: 'Climate Defiance' Targets Government Officials Who Aren’t Using Their Power to Address (the) Climate Crisis Economics professor emeritus Richard D. Wolff: BRICS Nations' Rise: Shaping a New Global Economy the US and its Allies No Longer Dominate Bob Nixon's Under-reported News • Southeast Asian nations flooded with West's plastic junk waste • Dollar General moves into the health market • Super-rich oil heirs back organizing against fossil fuels Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links, transcripts and subscribe to our BTL Weekly Summary and/or podcasts. New episodes every Wednesday at 12 noon ET, website updated Wednesdays after 4 p.m. ET Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata. Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. New episodes every Wednesday at 12 noon ET, website updated Wednesdays after 4 p.m. ET Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

The Lever Editor Lucy Dean Stockton: UAW Strike Demands Fairness for Workers, as US Automakers Spend Billions on Stock Buybacks Wisconsin Examiner Editor-in-Chief Ruth Conniff: GOP Attacks Wisconsin’s Democratic Institutions to Maintain Grip on Minority Rule Leonard Peltier supporters Holly Cook Macarro and Fawn Sharp: Supporters of America’s Longest Serving Political Prisoner Urge Biden His Release Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. New episodes every Wednesday at 12 noon ET, website updated Wednesdays after 4 p.m. ET Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

"War Made Invisible" author Norman Solomon: 22 Years After 9/11, It’s time to Reassess the U.S. War on Terror NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory climate scientist Peter Kalmus: Climate Activists are Doing the Most Important Work on Planet Earth Right Now Vote to Stop Cop City spokesperson Paul Glaze: RICO Indictment of 61 ‘Stop Cop City’ Activists Criminalizes Dissent, Sets Dangerous Precedent Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • Mexico’s Supreme Court eliminates all federal criminal penalties for abortion • North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia making it harder for ex-felons to vote • Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's private equity backer linked to Jeffrey Epstein Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. New episodes every Wednesday at 12 noon ET, website updated Wednesdays after 4 p.m. ET Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

Oxfam America Seniors Research Adviser Dr. Kaitlyn Henderson: ‘Best States to Work’ Report Highlights State Policies Helping and Hurting American Workers Prison Policy Institute Communications Strategist Wanda Bertram: Climate Change-Driven Higher Temperatures in Prisons Leads to Increased Deaths Beyond Nuclear Radiation and Health Hazard Specialist Cindy Folkers: Japan’s Dumping Fukushima’s Radioactive Water in Pacific Linked to Long-Term Health Hazards Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. New episodes every Wednesday at 12 noon ET, website updated Wednesdays after 4 p.m. ET Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

Right-wing Watch Managing Director Peter Montgomery: Confronting Link Between GOP’s Racist Rhetoric and Rising Terrorist Hate Crimes Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania board president Dr. Ned Ketyer: New Pennsylvania Study Links Fracking Extraction Operations to Childhood Cancer & Asthma Award-winning investigative journalist Allan Nairn: Guatemalans Elect New President who Pledges to Restore Democracy Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • Ecuador voters reject Amazon drilling • Biden cracks down on Cytrox and Intellexa spyware • The push for zero-emission trains and good union jobs Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. New episodes every Wednesday at 12 noon ET, website updated Wednesdays after 4 p.m. ET Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics Vice President & Chief Counsel Donald Sherman: Campaign to Disqualify Trump from 2024 Election Ballot Gains Traction Public Citizen's Democracy Campaign Co-Director Jonah Minkoff-Zern: Georgia’s RICO Indictment Seeks to Tell Full Story of Trump-GOP Election Subversion Palestine Institute for Biodiversity & Sustainability founder Mazin Qumsiyeh: Israeli Occupation and Colonization’s Impact on Palestinian West Bank’s Biodiverse Ecosystem Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • Climate crisis hitting minority communities harder • Some cities pushing to overcome rent control obstacles • Brazil’s former president accused of trying to sell official gifts Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. New episodes every Wednesday at 12 noon ET, website updated Wednesdays after 4 p.m. ET Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

The Nation DC Bureau Chief Chris Lehmann: US Media Repeating Same Mistakes Covering Trump ’24 Presidential Campaign Hartford, CT Catholic Worker community member Jackie Allen Doucot: Civil Disobedience Actions at European Air Base Links Threat of Nuclear Weapons with Climate Crisis City College of San Francisco emeritus professor Abdul Jabbar: Report Charges US Pressured Pakistan to Oust the Nation’s Prime Minister Imran Khan Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • Is Cameroon the next Sudan? • Big Dairy is milking California dry • Payday lenders engage in reverse redlining Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. New episodes every Wednesday at 12 noon ET, website updated Wednesdays after 4 p.m. ET Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

Journalist and author Sasha Abramsky: US Democracy Hangs in Balance as Trump Faces 2020 Election Subversion Indictment Pen America Managing Director Nadine Farid Johnson: Pen America & Penguin-Random House Sue a Florida School District Over Book Bans Freelance reporter Tim Rowland: Adirondacks Affordable Housing Crisis Echoes Pervasive US Trend Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary: • Russia's Wagner Group disappeared and executed civilians in Mali • China is far ahead of the U.S. in rare earth mining • One year after union victory, Amazon still refuses to recognize union Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. New episodes every Wednesday at 12 noon ET, website updated Wednesdays after 4 p.m. ET Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

RootsAction co-founder Jeff Cohen: ‘Step Aside Joe’ Campaign Underscores Risks for Democracy as Biden Runs for Re-election Fossil Free Media Director Jamie Henn: Fossil Fuel Industry Must Pay for the Climate Crisis They’ve Profited From University of Southampton (UK) professor of oceanography and climate Robert Marsh: Predictions of a Future Collapse of a Vital Atlantic Ocean Current Linked to the Climate Crisis Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • Putin to miss BRICS summit to evade International Criminal Court warrant • EPA closes civil rights investigation into Cancer Alley • Right-wing activists challenge 100,000 Georgia voter registrations Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. New episodes every Wednesday at 12 noon ET, website updated Wednesdays after 4 p.m. ET Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

Institute for Policy Studies' New Internationalism Project Director Phyllis Bennis: Israeli Pro-Democracy Activists Detached from Palestinian Struggle for Basic Human Rights Thacker Pass activist and attorney Will Falk: Indigenous Tribes and Conservationists Oppose Nevada Lithium Mine on Sacred Site Get Free Executive Director Nicole Carty: Youth Activists Protest Regressive SCOTUS Rulings and Larger Attack on US Multi-Racial Democracy Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. New episodes every Wednesday at 12 noon ET, website updated Wednesdays after 4 p.m. ET Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

Former Ohio Democratic Party Chairman David Pepper: Ohio GOP’s August 8th ‘Issue 1’ Referendum Would Impose Minority Rule Jacobin Staff Writer Alex N. Press: Teamsters Union Prepares for Historic Strike Against UPS New York psychiatrist Dr. Yochai Re’em: Long COVID Patients Band Together to Share Data on Effective Treatment Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. New episodes every Wednesday at 12 noon ET, website updated Wednesdays after 4 p.m. ET Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

Arms Control Association Executive Director Daryl Kimball: House Progressives Propose Measure to Block Biden’s Transfer of Cluster Bombs to Ukraine Rutgers University adjunct professor of philosophy Ben Burgis: Biden Believes Right-Wing Extremist Supreme Court ‘Not Normal,’ But Resists Calls for Reform Public Services Loan Forgiveness support website founder Christina Ceballos: After Supreme Court Rejects Biden Student Debt Relief Plan, Public Service Workers Have Another Option Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. New episodes every Wednesday at 12 noon ET, website updated Wednesdays after 4 p.m. ET Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

American Association of University Professors General Counsel Risa Lieberwitz: Extremist Supreme Court Majority Ignores Decades of Precedent and Systemic U.S. Racism to Overturn Affirmative Action Young Invincibles' Executive Director Kristin McGuire: After Supreme Court Blocks Biden Student Debt Relief Plan, Advocates Continue to Push for Debt Cancellation Independent filmmaker Josh Fox: New Documentary Film ‘The Welcome Table’ Brings Attention to the Global Climate Migration Crisis Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. New episodes every Wednesday at 12 noon ET, website updated Wednesdays after 4 p.m. ET Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

The Nation magazine's abortion access correspondent Amy Littlefield: A Nation Transformed: One Year After the Demise of Roe v. Wade Jewish Voice for Peace's New Haven, CT chairperson Shelly Altman: Israel’s Far-Right Government’s Expansion of Illegal Settlements Incites Escalating Violence Investigative journalist Greg Palast: Billionaire Paul Singer’s Lavish Gifts to Justice Alito Further Erodes Public Confidence in Supreme Court Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary • Colombian President Petro pressing ahead on peace with armed rebels • U.S. government support for childcare providers in danger • Incoming Chicago mayor wants to broaden and deepen his city’s green agenda Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. New episodes every Wednesday at 12 noon ET, website updated Wednesdays after 4 p.m. ET Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

Social Security Works Executive Director Alex Lawson: Opponents Gear Up to Fight GOP’s Latest Plan to Cut Social Security & Medicare Environmental and climate justice leader Elizabeth Yeampierre: As Climate Crisis Worsens, Environmental Regulations Sacrificed to Reach Debt Ceiling Deal Clafkin University Assistant Professor Robert Greene II: Juneteenth Federal Holiday Must Remain Radical and Relevant to Today's Civil Rights Struggles Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • Global demand for coal hit a new high in 2022 • Colombian indigenous protest Irish packaging giant • Bipartisan Farm Bill efforts to protect family farms could be upended Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. New episodes every Wednesday at 12 noon ET, website updated Wednesdays after 4 p.m. ET Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

Salon.com senior politics writer Amanda Marcotte: GOP Threat of Violence After Trump’s Federal Indictment Spreads Across the Nation Rep. Rashida Tlaib: Protesting Deal to Build Mountain Valley Pipeline, Rep. Tlaib Says Corporate Greed is Killing Us Portland State University professor emeritus of political science Mel Gurtov: The Urgent Need to Reduce Rising US-China Tensions and Avert Future Conflict Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. New episodes every Wednesday at 12 noon ET, website updated Wednesdays after 4 p.m. ET Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

Americans for Tax Fairness policy consultant Will Rice: Nation’s Poor, Students & Climate Lose in Deal to End GOP Debt Ceiling Extortion Food & Water Watch Legal Director Tarah Heinzen: Supreme Court Weakens EPA Enforcement of Clean Water Act, Endangering Wetlands Atomic veteran Hank Bolden, Golden Rule Captain Kiko Johnston-Kitazawa and crew member Bill Good: Historic Cold War-Era Peace Boat Sails Again to Demand Nuclear Abolition Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary: • United Nations: Rohingya refugees in ‘state of desperation’ • Remarkable successes for Minnesota progressives • Demands for shakeup at United Food and Commercial Workers Union Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. New episodes every Wednesday at 12 noon ET, website updated Wednesdays after 4 p.m. ET Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

New York University history professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Candidate Ron DeSantis Poses Unique Threat to Democracy National Priorities Project Program Director Lindsay Koshgarian: Massive Pentagon Budget Increased Under Proposed Debt Ceiling Deal Haven's Harvest Executive Director Lori Martin: Food Rescue Group Feeds The Hungry, Protects the Environment Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. New episodes every Wednesday at 12 noon ET, website updated Wednesdays after 4 p.m. ET Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

Cornell University law professor Robert C. Hockett: Biden’s Invocation of 14th Amendment Would Neutralize GOP Debt Ceiling Threat National Immigration Law Center President Kica Matos: After Title 42 Biden’s New Immigration Policies Make it More Difficult for People Seeking Asylum in the US "How Fascism Works" author and Yale professor Jason Stanley: Fascist Republican Party Declares War on U.S. Democracy, While Imposing Minority Rule Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. New episodes every Wednesday at 12 noon ET, website updated Wednesdays after 4 p.m. ET Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

MoveOn.org Executive Director Rahna Epting: MoveOn Targets Fox News’ Corporate Advertisers for Funding Dangerous Lies and Disinformation Prison Policy Initiative Communications Director Mike Wessler: Census Bureau Prison Gerrymandering Policy Skews Electoral Representation The Lever Senior Editor Andrew Perez: Right-wing Billionaire-Funded ‘No Labels’ Group Financing 2024 Third Party Spoiler Presidential Bid Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. New episodes every Wednesday at 12 noon ET, website updated Wednesdays after 4 p.m. ET Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.