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https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250509.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). $Trump marketing website . This week on CounterSpin : They say ignorance is bliss, but I know that, for myself and others, our lack of knowledge of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency will only hurt us in our response to the effects that the dealings around that stuff are having on our lives. Bartlett Naylor breaks it down for us; he works at Public Citizen , as a financial policy advocate at their project Congress Watch. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250509Naylor.mp3 Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (photo: Judith Slein ) Also on the show: Billionaires don’t need tax cuts; they already have a system designed to appease them. But it’s not enough! Part of the budget bill to give more to those who have everything is an effort to sell off public land for exploitation for fossil fuel companies, who are determined to die taking the last penny from our fingers. Pulling up the covers and waiting for better times isn’t the way; if we stay focused, we can save critical elements of, in this case, unspoiled wild places in this country. Ashley Nunes is public lands policy specialist at the Center for Biological Diversity . We hear from her this week about that. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250509Nunes.mp3 Plus Janine Jackson looks back on an interview with the late Robert McChesney . https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250509Banter.mp3…

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Tanya Clay House on Freedom to Learn, Danaka Katovich on Attacks on Activists 27:52

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https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250502.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Ruby Bridges challenged US segregation in 1960. This week on CounterSpin : You can say someone ‘supports the rights’ of people of color to vote, or to have our experience and history recognized—as though that were a passive descriptor; she ‘supports the rights’ of people of color to be seen and heard. The website of the Kairos Democracy Project has a quote from John Lewis, reminding us: “Democracy is not a state. It is an act.” Tanya Clay House is board chair at Kairos and a longtime advocate for the multiracial democracy that the Trump White House seeks to denounce and derail—in part by erasing the history of Black people in this country. As part of that, she’s part of an ongoing project called Freedom to Learn and its present campaign, called #HandsOffOurHistory . We hear from Tanya Clay House about that work this week. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250502House.mp3 Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin Also on the show: Corporate news media evince lofty principles about the First Amendment, but when people actually use it, the response is more telling. When USA Today covered activism in Seattle around the WTO, it reported : “Little noticed by the public, the upcoming World Trade Organization summit has energized protesters around the world.” You see how that works: If you’re the little-noticing “public,” you’re cool; but if you band together with other people and speak out, well, now you’re a “protester,” and that’s different—and marginal. Whatever they say in their Martin Luther King Day editorials , elite media’s day-to-day message is: “Normal people don’t protest.” In 2025, there’s an ominous addendum: “Or else.” Danaka Katovich is co-director of the feminist grassroots anti-war organization CODEPINK , currently but not for the first time at the sharp end of state efforts to silence activists and activism. We hear from her this week. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250502Katovich.mp3…

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Khury Petersen-Smith on Yemen Distortions 27:52

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https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250418.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). The Nation ( 3/27/25 ) This week on CounterSpin : CBS News on April 14 said : We’re following new violence in the Middle East. Israeli strikes hit a major hospital in northern Gaza. At least 21 people were reportedly killed. The emergency room is badly damaged. Israel accused Hamas of using the hospital to hide its fighters. Meanwhile, Houthi militants in Yemen said they fired two ballistic missiles at Israel. The Israeli military initially said two missiles were launched and one was intercepted, but later said only one missile had been fired. There’s information in there, if you can parse it; but the takeaway for most will be that framing: “violence in the Middle East,” which suggests that whatever happened today is just the latest round in a perennial battle between warring parties, where you and I have no role except that of sad bystander. When it comes to Yemen , elite media’s repeated reference to “Iran-backed Houthi rebels” not only obscures the current fighting’s political origins and recent timeline, it erases the Yemeni people, who are paying the price both for the fighting and for the distortions around it, from political elites and their media amplifiers. We get some grounding from Khury Petersen-Smith ; he’s the Michael Ratner Middle East fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250418Petersen-Smith.mp3 Plus Janine Jackson takes a look back at some recent press coverage of fossil fuel companies and climate change. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250418Banter.mp3…

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Dara Lind on Criminalizing Immigrants 27:52

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https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250411.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Intercept ( 4/8/25 ) This week on CounterSpin : We’re learning from Jonah Valdez at the Intercept that the Trump administration is now revoking visas and immigration statuses of hundreds of international students under the Student Exchange and Visitor Program—not just those active in pro-Palestinian advocacy, or those with criminal records of any sort. It is, says one immigration attorney, “a concerted effort to go after people who are from countries and religions that the Trump administration wants to get out of the country.” It is disheartening to see a report like one in Newsweek , about how Trump “loves the idea” of sending US citizens to prisons outside of US jurisdiction, that feels it has to start by explaining “Why It Matters.” But things as they are, we have to be grateful for what straight reporting we get—at a time when some outlets are signing on to shut up if it buys them a moment of peace, which it won’t—and a moment in which staying informed, paying attention, learning what’s happening and how we can stop it, is what we have to work with. Dara Lind is senior fellow at the American Immigration Council . She joins us this week on the show. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250411Lind.mp3 Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look back at coverage of the Hands Off! protests . https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250411Banter.mp3…

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Paul Offit on RFK Jr. and Measles, Jessica González on Trump’s FCC 27:52

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https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250404.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). New York Times ( 11/14/24 ) This week on CounterSpin : If “some people believe it” were the criterion, our daily news would be full of respectful consideration of the Earth’s flatness, the relationship of intelligence to the bumps on your head, and how stepping on a crack might break your mother’s back. News media don’t, in fact, use “some people think it’s true” as the threshold for whether a notion gets talked about seriously, gets “balanced” alongside what “data suggest.” It’s about power. Look no further than Robert Kennedy Jr. When he was just a famously named man about town, we heard about how he dumped a bear carcass in Central Park for fun, believes that children’s gender is shaped by chemicals in the water , and asserts that Covid-19 was “targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people,” while leaving “Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese” immune. But once you become RFK Jr., secretary of health and human services in a White House whose anger must not be drawn, those previously unacceptable ideas become, as a recent New York Times piece has it, “unorthodox.” Kennedy’s unorthodox ideas may get us all killed while media whistle. We hear from Dr. Paul Offit , director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, about that. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250404Offit.mp3 Free Press ( 3/18/25 ) Also on the show: For many years, social justice advocates rather discounted the Federal Communications Commission. Unlike the Federal Trade Commission or the Food and Drug Administration, whose actions had visible impacts on your life, the FCC didn’t seem like a player. That changed over recent years, as we’ve seen the role the federal government plays in regulating the power of media corporations to control the flow of information. As the late, great media scholar Bob McChesney explained , “When the government grants free monopoly rights to TV spectrum…it is not setting the terms of competition; it is picking the winner.” We’ll talk about the FCC under Trump with Jessica González , co-CEO of the group McChesney co-founded, Free Press . https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250404Gonzalez.mp3…

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Michael Arria on Gaza Pushback 27:52

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https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250328.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Mondoweiss ( 3/18/25 ) This week on CounterSpin : Israel has abandoned the ceasefire agreement and restarted its genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza, a war that has destroyed the region and killed tens of thousands of human beings. The ceasefire, as Gaza-based writer Hassan Abo Qamar among others reminds , still allowed Israel to deprive Palestinians in Gaza of “food, water, medical care, education and freedom of movement.” But it wasn’t enough and, as Belén Fernández writes for FAIR.org , Israel’s US-endorsed resumption of all-out genocide killed at least 404 Palestinians right off the bat, but was reported in, for instance, the New York Times as “Israel Tries to Pressure Hamas to Free More Hostages.” We know that elite media will tell us someday that the whole world was horrified by the genocide of Palestinians, and that journalists decried it. But someday is not today. We need reporters who aren’t not afraid they will be targeted, but who may be afraid and are nevertheless bearing witness. Reporters like Hossam Shabat , 23-year-old Palestinian correspondent for Al Jazeera and Drop Site News , targeted and killed March 24, and not even the first Israeli journalist assassination for the day: Hours earlier, Palestine Today reporter Mohammad Mansour was killed in an Israeli strike on his home in southern Gaza. The genocide of Palestinians is a human rights emergency, and also a journalism emergency. US reporters who don’t treat it as such are showing their allegiance to something other than journalism. A key part of their disservice is their ignoring, obscuring, marginalizing, demeaning and endangering the many people who are standing up and speaking out. Pretending protest isn’t happening is aiding and abetting the work of the silencers; it’s telling lies about who we are and what we can do. We build action by telling the stories powerful media don’t want told. We’ll talk about that with reporter Michael Arria, US correspondent for Mondoweiss and the force behind their new feature called “Power & Pushback.” https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250328Arria.mp3 Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at recent press coverage of transphobia, and remembers FAIR board member Robert McChesney . https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250328Banter.mp3…

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Nancy Altman on Social Security Attacks 27:52

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https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250321.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Public Information ( 3/17/25 ) This week on CounterSpin : News site Popular Information alerted us to new Social Security Administration policy effectively requiring tens of thousands of recipients, by the agency’s own estimation, to travel to a field office to verify their ID. An internal memo predicts the shift will create “service disruption,” “operational strain” and “budget shortfalls” – unsurprising, given concurrent staffing cuts and field office closures. The inevitable harms will no doubt be declared part of a necessary attempt to purge “fraud” from the system that has disbursed earned benefits to elderly and disabled people for generations. Journalists have choices. They can, as did the Record-Journal of Meriden, Connecticut, report that the cuts derive from repeated claims of fraud from Elon Musk that are “without evidence,” that Trump echoes Musk’s “unfounded statements,” quote a retiree advocate noting that accusations of loads of dead folks collecting benefits are “baseless, ” and put the words “fact sheet” in appropriate irony quotes when describing a missive from the White House. Or you can go the route of the Arizona Republic , and lead with the notion that the interference in Social Security is most importantly part of Musk’s “implementing…measures to trim costs throughout the government.” Mention that the actions have “stirred a range of emotions, from cautious hope that the federal government might finally bring its deficit spending under control, to frantic fears that benefit cuts could undermine the financial or health security of millions of Americans,” go on to ask earnestly, “Where does Trump stand on Social Security and other benefits?” and begin with a White House statement “reiterating that the president supports these programs.” In paragraph 19, you might throw in that public polling shows that “most Americans would favor revenue increases rather than benefit cuts to Social Security,” which would include “requiring high-income individuals to pay taxes on more of their earnings.” In short, easily verified facts, along with “most Americans,” can be centered or tangential in your reporting on the drastic, opaque changes aimed at the program that keeps the wolf from the door for millions of people, but for Musk/Trump represents yet another pile of money they feel belongs to them and theirs. All that’s in the balance are human lives and health, and the ability of working people to plan for our futures. We’ll talk about the new, yet also old, attacks on Social Security with Nancy Altman, president of Social Security Works. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250321Altman.mp3 Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at recent media coverage of Mahmoud Khalil , deportations and the FTC. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250321Altman.mp3…

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David Perry on MAGA & Disability, Kehsi Iman Wilson (2023) on ADA 27:52

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https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250314.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). This week on CounterSpin : In early February, when Rep. Maxwell Frost tweeted that he and Rep. Maxine Waters were denied access to the Department of Education, Elon Musk responded on the platform he owns: “What is this ‘Department of Education’ you keep talking about? I just checked and it doesn’t exist.” That, we understand, was the shadow president skating where the puck’s gonna be, as they say—because a month later, we learned that indeed newly appointed Education Secretary Linda McMahon is tasked not with running but with erasing the department. Elite media have talked about the political machinations, how this was expected, how it fits with Trump/Musk’s grand schemes. When it comes to what will happen to the under-resourced schools, and the students with disabilities for whom the DoE supported access and recourse for discrimination? Media seem happy with McMahon’s handwaving about how that stuff might be better off in a different agency. The impacts of policy on people with disabilities are overwhelmingly an afterthought for corporate media, even though it’s a large community, and one anyone can join at any moment. We talked, on March 5, with journalist and historian David Perry about the threats McMahon and MAGA pose to people—including students—with disabilities. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250314Perry.mp3 Also on the show: You wouldn’t know it from what comes out of the mouths of today’s “leaders,” but there has long been a widely shared view in this country that people with disabilities deserve full human rights, but don’t have them. July 2023 marked the 33rd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. And, as happens every year, a dismaying amount of the anniversary coverage was about buildings or spaces coming into compliance with the ADA—as though complying with a decades-old law was a feel-good story, and despite the relative absence of feel-bad stories about decades of noncompliance. CounterSpin spoke at the time with Kehsi Iman Wilson, co-founder of New Disabled South , about what’s lost when the public conversation around disability justice revolves around abiding by a baseline law, rather than a bigger vision of a world we can all live in. We revisit that conversation this week on CounterSpin . https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250314Wilson.mp3 Featured Image: A protester at a disability rights protest in May 2022 in new York City. Credit: FollowingNYC from Pexels…

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Eric Blanc on Worker-to-Worker Organizing 27:52

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https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250307.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Reuters ( 3/6/25 ) This week on CounterSpin : A NASA official warned workers to maybe think about not wearing their badges in public, to protect themselves from harassment against people identifiable as federal workers by MAGA randos who feel deputized by Trump and Musk to do…well, whatever it is Trump and Musk suggest. It’s early days of the Trump/Musk federal smash and grab, and the harms are already piling up. But so too is the resistance. And federal workers, presumed to be easy targets—based in part on years of corporate media coverage telling us government is fat and lazy and the private sector does everything better—are also on the front lines of the fightback. We talk about the power of workers—with or without a union—with labor activist and organizer Eric Blanc. He’s assistant professor of labor studies at Rutgers University, and author of the new book We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big . https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250307Blanc.mp3 Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at recent press coverage of Trump’s congressional speech, “DOGE” and town hall repression. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250307Banter.mp3…

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Kirk Herbertson on Big Oil’s Lawsuit Against Environmentalism 27:52

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https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250228.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). EarthRights ( 2/20/25 ) This week on CounterSpin : Just because we might witness the daylight robbery of the social benefits we’ve been paying for and counting on for the entirety of our working lives, and just because Black people are no longer officially allowed to even mentor Black people coming in to fields they’ve been historically excluded from, and just because any program receiving public funding will now have to pretend there are “two genders”—doesn’t mean the environment isn’t still in immediate peril. It is. But the lawsuits of deep-pocketed fossil fuel corporations against any and everyone who dares challenge their profiteering destruction are really also about our ability as non-billionaires to use our voice to speak out about anything. Not speaking out is increasingly a non-option. So where are we? We’ll learn about a case that is “weaponizing the legal system” against anyone who wants a livable future from Kirk Herbertson, US director for advocacy and campaigns at EarthRights International . https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250228Herbertson.mp3 Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at recent coverage of the FCC , the Washington Post and Medicaid. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250228Banter.mp3…

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Gregory Shupak on Palestine Ethnic Cleansing, Portia Allen-Kyle on Tax Unfairness 27:52

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Corporate media can't bring themselves to call Trump's illegal, inhumane plan what it is: ethnic cleansing.

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Luke Charles Harris on Critical Race Theory (2021) 27:56

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Corporate news media presented a campaign openly defined as uninterested in truth or humanity as a totally valid, “grassroots” perspective.

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Ezra Young on Trans Rights Law, Anne Sosin on RFK Jr. and Rural Health 27:52

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The Trump campaign against transgender people lands in an elite media climate in which trans lives have long been deemed "subject to debate."

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David Kass on Billionaire Election-Buying 27:52

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The increasing influence of the super rich on the politics and policy we all have to live with is an urgent story, if not a new one.

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Silky Shah on the Attack on Immigrants 27:52

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Immigration itself is now not a human rights story, or even an economic one, but yet another story about “their” crimes and “our” safety.

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Derek Seidman on Insurance and Climate (2024); Ariel Adelman on Disability Civil Rights (2024) 27:52

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Many are calling out insurance companies that take folks’ money, but then hinder their ability to come out from under when these predictable and predicted crises occur.

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Dean Baker on China Trade Policy 27:52

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How different is Thomas Friedman's insistence that China "let in more Taylor Swifts" from US media coverage of China and trade policy generally?

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Sonali Kolhatkar & Laura Flanders on Independent Media and the Year Ahead 27:53

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Corporate news media, tasked primarily with enriching the rich and shoring up entrenched institutions, will not do the liberatory, illuminating work of independent journalism.

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The Best of CounterSpin 2024 27:52

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This is the time of year when we take a listen back to some of the conversations from the past year that have helped us clarify the events that bombard us.

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Yanni Chen on TikTok Ban, Richard Mendel on Youth and Crime 27:52

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Does banning TokTok threaten First Amendment freedoms? A judge says the government “acted solely to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation.”

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Iman Abid on Israeli Genocide 27:52

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While not the first to ask us to see the assault on Palestinians as genocide, Amnesty’s report offers an opening to ask why some are so invested in saying it isn’t.

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Arlene Martinez on Amazon Misconduct, Neil deMause (2019) on Amazon HQ Fight 27:52

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When a corporate behemoth like Amazon buys one of the country’s national newspapers, it’s a conflict writ large as can or should be.

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Katherine Gallagher on Abu Ghraib Verdict 27:56

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A federal jury has just found military contractor CACI responsible for its part in Abu Ghraib abuse, in a ruling being called “exceptional in every sense of the term.”

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Amos Barshad on Legalized Sports Betting 27:52

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Legal sports gambling is the apple of the eye of many corporate and private state actors—but how does it affect states, communities, people?

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Adam Johnson on Charlottesville March (2017), Jacinta Gonzalez on Criminalizing Immigration (2018) 27:52

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If we're to believe the chest-thumping, high on Trump's agenda will be the enforced criminalization of immigration.

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Julie Hollar and Jim Naureckas on Placing Blame for Trump 27:52

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We talk about what just happened, and corporate media’s role in it, with Julie Hollar, senior analyst at the media watch group FAIR, and FAIR’s editor Jim Naureckas.

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Nicole Foy on Immigration and Labor 27:52

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News media start with the premise of immigration itself as a “crisis,” with the only debate around how to "stem" or "control" it.

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Shawn Musgrave, Orion Danjuma on Vote Fraud Hoax as Voter Suppression 27:52

28 weeks ago27:52

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Trump’s “Big Lie” attorneys are not so much returning to the field, but actually never left.

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Chip Gibbons on Gaza First Amendment Alert 27:52

29 weeks ago27:52

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Defending Rights & Dissent has started a project called the Gaza First Amendment Alert, which is going to come out every other Wednesday.

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George Lipsitz on the Impacts of Housing Discrimination 27:52

30 weeks ago27:52

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A new book doesn’t just illuminate the thicket of effects of systemic racism as it affects where people live; it reframes the understanding of the role of housing.

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Derek Seidman on Insurance and Climate, Insha Rahman on Immigration Conversation 27:52

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Why are events we pay insurance for a "crisis" for the industry we pay it to? The unceasing effects of climate disruption will only throw that question into more relief.

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Vance Dossier Shows Not All Hacks Are Created Equal

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Musk’s Twitter is keeping certain information out of the public view—information that just happens to damage the presidential ticket he supports.

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Mohamad Bazzi on Israeli Terror Attacks 27:52

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As every day brings news of new carnage, US citizens have a duty not to look away, given our government’s critical role in arming Israel and ignoring its crimes.

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Jen Senko on The Brainwashing of My Dad 27:52

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Jen Senko’s film and the book based on it are an effort to engage the effects of that yelling, punching down, reactionary media.

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Gregory Shupak on Palestinian Genocide, Robert Spitzer on Gun Rights and Rules 27:52

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Why do the press corps need a constitutional amendment to protect their ability to speak if all they’re going to say is, “oh well”?

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Dedrick Asante-Muhammad & Algernon Austin on the Black Economy 27:52

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A people-centered press corps would spell out the meaning of economic “indicators” in relation to where we want to go as a society that has yet to address deep historical and structural harms.

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Freddy Brewster on Supermarket Megamerger 27:52

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Kroger is currently raising the prices of things like eggs and milk above inflation rates, simply because they can get away with it.

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NYT Can’t Forgive Donahue for Being Right on Iraq

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More than 20 years after the New York Times was catastrophically wrong on the Iraq War, the paper cannot forgive anyone who was right.

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Steve Macek on Dark Money 27:52

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How do we acknowledge the fact that many people’s opinions are shaped by messages that are created and paid for by folks who work hard to hide their identity and their interests?

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Emily Sanders on Criminalizing Pipeline Protest, Victoria St. Martin on Suing Fossil Fuel Companies 27:52

38 weeks ago27:52

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The crickets you’re hearing about efforts to eviscerate the right to protest the impacts of climate disruption? That’s all intentional.

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Lee Hepner on Google Monopoly, Shayana Kadidal on Guantanamo Plea Deal 27:52

39 weeks ago27:52

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Does the company that "corners the market" do so because people simply prefer what they sell? The anti-monopoly ruling against Google challenges that idea of how things work.

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Tim Wise on ‘DEI Hires,’ Keith McHenry on Criminalizing the Unhoused 27:52

40 weeks ago27:52

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The right wing has gotten much more overt about their intention to defeat the prospect of multiracial democracy, as demonstrated by its latest weaponized trope—the “DEI hire.”

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Ari Berman on Minority Rule 27:52

41 weeks ago27:52

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If voting were made easier, Donald Trump said, "You'd never have a Republican elected in this country again."

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Phyllis Bennis on Israel’s War on Palestinians 27:52

42 weeks ago27:52

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Years from now, we’ll hear about how everyone saw the nightmare and everyone opposed it. But history is now, and the world is watching.

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Shelby Green & Selah Goodson Bell on Utility Profiteering, Jane McAlevey on #MeToo & Labor 27:52

43 weeks ago27:52