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Along the Line, is a member of the Demcast network, brought to you by the Media Freedom Foundation. On today’s episode hosts Nicholas Baham III (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan Higdon revisit the Ukraine Impeachment Process by analyzing the House Intelligence Report. ATL’s Creative...
In August 2019, Mary Alice McCarthy and Debra Bragg reported on the racial gap among students transferring from college to university in the US. Only about one in three community college students eventually transfer to four-year institutions, and transfer and graduation rates are “especially low...
Since 2015, Chemeketa Press, a non-profit organization operated by Chemeketa Community College in Oregon, has been printing college-level textbooks for $40 or less. To date, the press has published a total of 33 titles, saving students an estimated $2.5 million from what they would have spent if...
Marfrig, a Brazilian meat company that supplied McDonald’s, Burger King, and other global fast-food chains, bought cattle from a farm that was using deforested land, according to a joint investigation by the Guardian, Repórter Brasil, and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
The...
In November 2019, Cyberscoop reported a major security vulnerability in Amazon’s Ring app. As Jeff Stone reported, Amazon’s Ring service contained a security vulnerability that allowed hackers to intercept a customer’s Wi-Fi username and password, which in turn could be used to launch larger...
In a 2018, Lewis Ziska, a veteran plant physiologist at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), found that minerals, proteins, and key vitamins in rice are very likely to drop as greenhouse gas levels rise, potentially imperiling the nutrition of more than 600 million people globally who rely...
Since 2001, more than 3,000 human remains have been found along the US-Mexico border in Arizona, an average of more than 150 per year in that state alone. Amy Goodman reported that, in 2019, humanitarian aid organizations including No More Deaths continued to provide migrants with basic...
The US government is relying on Google Translate to decide if refugees should enter the United States, according to a September 2019 report by ProPublica. An internal manual created by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services was obtained by the International Refugee Assistance Project. The...
It is not news that the United Sates government is separating asylum-seeking families who turn up at the U.S.-Mexican border and try to enter this country illegally. But the Trump Administration’s treatment of children held for weeks without a parent, with no one to look out for them, may...
On August 22, 2019, a 21-year-old Palestinian woman from Bethlehem, Israa Ghrayeb, was murdered by her father and brothers, after a relative sent her father and brothers a video she posted on social media of herself meeting with her fiancé. In a report for Arab News, Emina Osmandzikovic and...
In June 2019, a Texas prison inmate, Seth Donnelly, passed away due to multiple organ failure and severe hyperthermia after an outdoor dog training session on a morning when temperatures reached 102 degrees. Donnelly, who wore a 75-pound bite jacket while working as a dog trainer, expired in...
China has become a major threat to US interests in the Middle East and especially in Iraq, according to a report for RT by Darius Shahtahmasebi. Iraq has become China’s second or third largest source of oil, and China has displaced India as Iraq’s number one trading partner, Shahtahmasebi...
A study conducted by Santa Clara University’s Center for Food Innovation and Entrepreneurship, shows that 33.7% of produce on California farms goes unharvested. Researchers surveyed 123 mid-sized and larger conventional farms. In the article “Study Finds Farm-Level Food Waste is Much Worse Than...
Myths and misconceptions about breastfeeding work in favor of the $70 billion baby food industry, Felogene Anumo reported for Women’s eNews in July 2019. Tracing misconceptions linking breastfeeding and poverty back to the 17th century, Anumo examined how rising global sales of breastmilk...
On March 25, 2019, Christopher Caldwell, an inmate at Limestone Correctional Facility in Alabama, was shackled and taped to a bucket for five days.
Caldwell was transferred to Limestone from a coveted work release center. Because he was suspected of smuggling contraband, on entry to...
In a 2019 article for Dissent magazine, Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright analyze the “capitalist nation-state that structures our world” as the primary condition for accelerating planetary climate change, and they identify four “rough paths” forward, based on their book Climate Leviathan: A...
From parts of Nevada to Amsterdam to Germany, governments have legalized prostitution. But in Germany, the city of Cologne is mapping a new course by allowing “drive-thru” stalls for safe, quick sex service.
For cash-strapped women like Nicole Schulze, these government-sanctioned drive-...
A heat island impacting Tuscon, Arizona is uncomfortable for everyone there, but as Ellice Lueders reported for the Guardian in August 2019, “Not all Tucsonans stand equal in the face of heat.” As southern Arizona’s summers become more intense, “people who work outdoors, those on a low income...
Animal researchers are just as guilty in their cruelty as animal hunters and farms in which animals are slaughtered, yet they seem to shield themselves from public scrutiny and negative media coverage. In her report, “How Animal Researchers Stay out of the News,” Martha Rosenberg (an...
Since 1922, over 300 mountain climbers have died attempting to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the world’s highest and most deadly mountain. As Rasoul Sorkhabi wrote for Earth Island Journal in August 2019, “The crisis on the world’s highest mountain is acute, and intensifying,” not only...
In Summer 2019, youth from Lagos, Nigeria joined the #ChurchToo movement to fight what Festus Iyorah, reporting for Sojourners, described as “incessant” sexual assaults perpetrated by members of Nigeria’s clergy and a “slow and corrupt” justice system that “favors and shields” powerful...
Domestic abuse is grounded in fear, so what happens when the abusers are part of the system that is supposed to protect those who are being abused? A report by the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism found that UK police officers and other law enforcement personnel accounted for more...
From 2016-2018, the UK government tracked the personal information of 21,042 citizens, including adults and children, through PREVENT, a secret government database, Barry Mason reported for the World Socialist Website. 2011 legislation made it a “statutory duty” for the staff of schools, local...
Along the Line, is a member of the Demcast network, brought to you by the Media Freedom Foundation. On today’s episode hosts Nicholas Baham III (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan Higdon discuss unsubstantiated right wing conspiracies. ATL’s Creative Director is Dylan Lazaga. Mickey...
People who are imprisoned as repeat offenders are more likely to be poor, unemployed, or homeless, according to a study released by the Prison Policy Institute in August 2019. The study, titled “Arrest, Release, Repeat,” found that people in need of medical care and social services “cycle in and...
A new threat has risen against modern democracy: our minds. At the International Society of Political Psychologists conference in Lisbon in July 2019, Rick Shenkman of Politico reported on University of California, Irvine Professor Shawn Rosenberg’s presentation of his paper, “Democracy...
Virginia prisons are making it difficult for Muslim prisoners to observe Ramadan. Muslims around the world observe the month of Ramadan by fasting from dawn to sunset. The hours between sunset and dawn are thus a crucial window of time for those observing Ramadan to drink and eat in order to...
On August 3rd, 2019, twenty-two people, mainly from the lantinx community, were murdered while shopping in El Paso, Texas by 21-year-old white supremacist, Patrick Crusius. As ProPublica reported, members of the white nationalist group Patriot Front, which formed in the aftermath of the 2017 “...
On this week’s program, Mickey Huff and his guests examine how Facebook, Twitter and Google are working to hide, “deplatform” or otherwise undermine news and opinions critical of US government policies, and thus reestablish the dominance of establishment-friendly corporate media.
Emil...
Along the Line, is a member of the Demcast network, brought to you by the Media Freedom Foundation. On today’s episode hosts Nicholas Baham III (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan Higdon discuss the Coltrane Church. ATL’s Creative Director is Dylan Lazaga. Mickey Huff is ATL’s...
By Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff
Has the United States become so hyper-partisan, so undermined by commercial media, and so under-served by a failing education system that the basic requirements needed to term our society a democracy are no longer apparent? Recent...
Along the Line, is a member of the Demcast network, brought to you by the Media Freedom Foundation. On today’s episode hosts Nicholas Baham III (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan Higdon discuss the congressional impeachment inquiry of Trump and the Ukraine. ATL’s Creative Director is...
On this week’s show, we hear a talk given by Mickey Huff and Nolan Higdon. They spoke about their new book, “United States of Distraction,” a look at the five decades of corrosive political and media changes which made it possible for a candidate like Donald Trump to capture the presidency. They...
Along the Line, is a member of the Demcast network, brought to you by the Media Freedom Foundation. On today’s episode hosts Nicholas Baham III (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan Higdon discuss how podcasts are being used to combat neofascism. ATL’s Creative Director is Dylan Lazaga...
Along the Line, is a member of the Demcast network, brought to you by the Media Freedom Foundation. On today’s episode hosts are Nicholas Baham III (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan Higdon celebrate the one year anniversary of Along The Line. ATL’s Creative Director is Dylan Lazaga...
Although elections analysts from both Democratic and Republican organizations anticipate that the 2020 elections will see unprecedented numbers of voters, there will be fewer polling places in 2020 than in previous elections. As Mike Ludwig reported for Truthout, a report from the Leadership...
Members of the US Senate are heavily invested in the fossil fuel companies that fuel the current climate crisis, creating a conflict between those senators’ financial interests as investors and their responsibilities as elected representatives. According to a September 2019 Sludge Climate report...
Nuclear power plants are unprepared for climate change. Rising sea levels and warmer waters will impact power plants’ infrastructure, posing increased risks of nuclear disasters, according to reports from the NRDC and Truthout from September 2019.
“If nuclear power is going to have a role...
The New York Police Department has a rapidly-growing, secret database of almost 20,000 suspected gang members, which includes mostly minorities and many children as young as thirteen. As Nick Pinto reported for the Intercept, the NYPD touts its “Criminal Group Database” as a tool for “precision...
According to an investigation by the nonprofit organization Reveal, hundreds of police officers are members of misogynistic, racist, anti-Muslim, or anti-government groups on Facebook. From a sheriff’s deputy in Missouri posting anti-Muslim rants to a Georgia officer who shared anti-Semitic...
A 2019 study by Oceana, a non- profit organization dedicated to protecting the world’s oceans, found that roughly twenty percent of fish bought and sold in the US are mislabeled. In other words, the fish sold are not the kind advertised—with vulnerable species like Atlantic halibut often falsely...
In April 2019, the US Army announced the launch of its new recruitment effort, “In Our Boots,” which uses virtual reality (VR) to allow potential recruits to “see, hear and feel what it is like to be a U.S. Army Soldier and witness their drive, determination and teamwork.” The Army produced its...
Facebook recently announced, “Facebook News,” a partnership between the social-media giant and established corporate-media outlets, including the New York Times. Does this arrangement suggest an enhanced effort to keep independent journalism and nonconforming opinions out of social media?
...Along the Line, is a member of the Demcast network, brought to you by the Media Freedom Foundation. On today’s episode hosts are Nicholas Baham III (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan Higdon explore the film Sorry to Bother You. ATL’s Creative Director is Dylan Lazaga. Mickey Huff is...
The agricultural giant Monsanto—which Bayer acquired in 2018—has created an intelligence surveillance “fusion center” in order to “monitor and discredit” journalists and activists, Sam Levin reported for the Guardian.
Levin wrote that Monsanto “adopted a multi-pronged strategy” to target...
According to a database maintained by the Sovereign Bodies Institute, there are 529 cases of missing and murdered indigenous women in the states through which the Keystone XL pipeline runs. Almost eighty percent of these cases remain unsolved and thirty percent are active missing-persons cases....
Major corporations promise fairness for workers and the environment, yet at the same time support repressive legislation promoted by the American Legislative Exchange Council. On August 19, 2019, nearly 200 corporate executives endorsed a statement produced by a trade group, the Business...
Owing to the war launched in 2015 by a US-backed coalition of Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, Yemen now suffers from “a complete absence” of law and order, which has given rise to what Ahmed Abdulkareem described for MintPress News as “a black Suq (market) of human trafficking on a scale...
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