Between The Lines – March 18, 2026 – Full Show


Subscribe to our Podcast

Subscribe to our Email List:

iran war

Trump’s Lawless and Chaotic War with Iran Has No Clear Objectives

Interview with Mel Goodman, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, former CIA analyst, conducted by Scott Harris

iranwar #iranwar

Trump Follows Israel Into Disastrous War on Iran, Netanyahu Calls the Shots

Interview with Branko Marcetic, staff writer with Jacobin magazine, conducted by Scott Harris

visibility brigade

Judge Dismisses Charges Against Connecticut Visibility Brigade Activist in Major Free Speech Victory

Interview with Katherine Hinds, founder and leader of the Connecticut Visibility Brigade, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

This Week’s Under-reported News Summary – March 18, 2026

Compiled by Bob Nixon

  • U.S. hasn't learned lessons from regime-change war to destabilize oil-rich Libya
  • Indian police raid environmental activists' home over anti-fossil fuels campaign
  • Ethanol's carbon footprint doesn't merit corn production's land shift use

Recently on Between the Lines

iran war

International Law is the Number One Casualty of the US & Israel’s Illegal War...

The U.S.-Israeli war against Iran was launched on Feb. 28, just one day after Oman’s foreign minister announced a major breakthrough in indirect U.S.-Iran...
ICE Agents

Trump’s Authoritarian Regime’s Next Target: The 2026 Midterm Election

The United States is now in the midst of the most serious attack on the nation’s democratic institutions, rule of law and checks and...
emissions

Trump EPA Eliminates 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding

On Feb. 12, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalized its rescission of the 2009 greenhouse gas endangerment finding. That scientific finding had determined that...

This Week’s Under-reported News Summary – March 11, 2026

In Michael Harrington’s classic 1972 book “Socialism”, the Democratic Socialist author claims the US labor movement had quietly become the “invisible” force behind dramatic...

Special Feature

Trump’s Dementia + Megalomania = Violent Police State 

Mel Goodman, a professor of government at Johns Hopkins University and a former CIA analyst, assesses Donald Trump’s irrational and authoritarian second term foreign and domestic policies, discussed in his Jan.19 Counterpunch column titled, “Donald Trump, Poster Child for Megalomania” in this interview with Scott Harris.

Sarah Nelson, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants, who in an interview with hosts Richard Hill and Michael Zweig, recorded in August last year, talks about what's going on in the U.S. aviation sector, with Trump administration federal budget cuts to the FAA.

Popular Stories

SUPPORT GIVING VOICE

TO PROGRESSIVE IDEAS

PLEASE DONATE NOW

WEB FEATURES

In Depth

iran war

Counterpoint March 16, 2026

The Forest and the Trees

SPECIAL REPORTS

How to Win Five Strikes in Two Years? A Conversation With Faye Guenther, President...

The Monthly Labor Report interviews Faye Guenther, president of United Food and Commercial Workers (Local 3000), who leads over 50,000 members across Washington state,...
no war on venezuela

U.S. Imperialism Roars Back to Life

Stephen Zunes, a foreign policy scholar and professor in Middle Eastern studies at the University of San Francisco, analyzes and contextualizes the Jan. 3...
sudan

Sudan’s Civil War Unleashed Today’s Worst Active Genocide, Famine, War Crimes in the World

Interview with Nathaniel Raymond, executive director, Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health, conducted by Melinda TuhusMELINDA TUHUS: The work you...
SNAP

Judge Forces Trump to Use Contingency Funds to Reactivate SNAP Benefits

Peggy Bailey discusses her group's views on the major issues and possible solutions to end the ongoing government shutdown, i.e.: extension of Affordable Care...

FACEBOOK FEED

Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine

Timely, in-depth progressive news and views underreported in mainstream, corporate media BTLonline.org, distributed by 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt organization Squeaky Wheel Productions at http://SqueakyWheel.net.
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine13 hours ago
Take a look at this incident regarding Alina Habba, Trump's personal defense lawyer whom he had appointed as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey and had bypassed Senate confirmation procedures, yet she continued to operate in that role. Here's the details of this most recent example of woefully incompetent and disgusting people that represent the Trump administration:

During a sentencing hearing for a man who had pleaded guilty to possession of child sexual abuse materials, Judge Zahid N. Quraishi on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey expressed skepticism that Habba had truly complied with the court’s order and fully stepped back from any role managing the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Quraishi blasted the proposed plea agreement as “deficient,” emphasizing over and over that the suggested sentence was “less than a third of the advisory range” despite the horrific severity of the child abuse shown in the images the defendant admitted to having:

THE COURT: How did the screw up happen? Was it your office, the U.S. Attorneys Office, the FBI, or both? How did you execute a plea agreement without knowing all the evidence on the device only later to find out, Oh, my God. There’s babies and prepubescent children and bestiality. It’s so egregious, Judge, but we didn’t address any of that. Who screwed it up? Your office, the FBI, or both?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/furious-judge-throws-trump-prosecutor-201503683.html #Trumpderangement
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine2 days ago
COUNTERPOINT RADIO, hosted by Scott Harris, is heard every Monday night on WPKN 89.5 FM, Bridgeport, CT between 8:00 – 9:30 pm ET. Webstreaming and audio archive at http://wpkn.org

1. Mel Goodman, senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, a professor of government at Johns Hopkins University and a former CIA analyst, whose latest book is titled American Carnage: The Wars of Donald Trump, shares his views on the motivation and conduct of the U.S. and Israeli war on Iran, as well as the short and long term consequences for international law, the world economy and the American empire.

2. Gerry Condon, former president and current national board member of Veterans for Peace, who explains why his group has condemned the U.S./Israeli attack on Iran, called for widespread resistance, and is advising members of the military who decide to refuse illegal orders and resist participating in this illegal war.

3. Branko Marcetic, a Jacobin staff writer and the author of "Yesterday’s Man: The Case Against Joe Biden" talks about his recent commentaries, "Trump Is in Way Over His Head in Iran," and "The US Is Fighting Israel’s War on Iran," and "US Military Aid to Israel Is a National Security Risk."

4) Sarah Ganong, State Director of the Connecticut Working Families Party, discusses WFP's CT legislative agenda, which includes standing up for immigrant rights, advocating for an equitable state budget with higher taxes on the wealthy, and demanding fair schedules for workers in hospitality, retail, and food service jobs. She'll also talk about statewide groups organizing for the March 28th anti-Trump, pro-democracy No Kings Day protests in CT and nationally.

Some segments featured on Counterpoint are edited for re-broadcast on the syndicated Between The Lines radio news magazine. Visit their web site at http://www.btlonline.org for free subscriptions to mp3 - podcast audio files, program summaries and interview transcripts. An archive of current and past Counterpoint interviews are accessible for free at our Counterpoint Radio web site: http://counterpointradio.org The full 1.5 hour unedited program can be accessed for a 2 week period after the show, at the WPKN Radio archives: http://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/search/counterpoint