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Vijay Prashad on Iran, Jeff Ballinger on Apple This week on CounterSpin: U.S. media are abuzz with stories about the growing threat Iran poses to the U.S. The stories seem to embellish recent remarks by the U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who says Iran is a larger threat than al Qaeda and is prepared to carry out attacks in the Western Hemisphere, including in the US. We'll be joined by Vijay Prashad, Director of International Studies at Trinity College to talk about Iran.
Also on the show: The New York Times ser ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Michael Hastings on 'The Operators,' Laura Flanders on Gingrich and racismThis week on CounterSpin: In the summer of 2010, Rolling Stone published an explosive story about the Afghan War. Within days U.S./NATO commander General Stanley McChrystal was out of a job. Much of the media coverage of the story focused on the blunt language McChrystal and his closest aides were using to talk about U.S. officials. The piece also caused some media figures to express alarm that a reporter would write such a story in the first place. Rolling Stone's Michael Hastings has turn ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Paul Mutter on Syria, Richard Martinez on Arizona ethnic studiesThis week on CounterSpin: The bloody conflict in Syria is, according to press accounts, bordering on a full-scale civil war. Much of what we're seeing in U.S.media comes from opposition sources seeking to topple the Assad dictatorship—leaving some skeptics to wonder whether we're getting an accurate assessment of what's really happening there. On top of that, powerful forces in U.S. foreign policy circles want the U.S. to do more. Journalist Paul Mutter took a look at the debate over ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cyrus Safdari on Iran, Jake Johnston on HaitiThis week on CounterSpin: As a covert war against Iran seems to be intensifying, the U.S. media have looked like willing partners in an anti-Iran propaganda campaign, helping US officials project dishonest claims, rs. We'll speak with Cyrus Safdari of Iran Affairs about coverage.
Also on the show: The two year anniversary of the devastating Haiti earthquake is being marked as a sign of failure, as millions of dollars of aid and assistance seem to have translated to hundreds of thousands of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Glenn Greenwald on NDAA, Corynne McSherry on SOPAThis week on CounterSpin: President Obama's signing of a defense bill including authorization for the indefinite detention of terror suspects--including U.S. citizens-- has been condemned by leading civil liberties voices. But the outrage has been somewhat obscured by a general confusion about what the bill means and the president’s intentions. Salon columnist and former constitutional litigator Glenn Greenwald will sort that out for us.
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Best of CounterSpin 2011This week we'll be bringing you just some of the highlights from the past year. We've had guests bringing us something other than the usual corporate media line on stories from the Arab Spring to trade policy, from Fukushima to Occupy Wall Street. We try throughout the year to bring listeners information and perspectives that they might not hear elsewhere, that might complicate or even upend the storyline they're getting from the nightly news.
We do that by relying on a range of activists, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Joe Torres on News for All the People, Amy Alexander on Uncovering RaceThis week on CounterSpin, a special look at race and people of color in U.S. journalism. Told quickly it's a story about under representation and exclusion, of bias... and of breakthroughs. And all along, recognition that the stories news media tell us about the world and one another are a tremendous shaping force on the state of racial and ethnic understanding and the advance of social justice.
We'll hear from Joseph Torres of the group Free Press, co-author with Juan Gonzalez of a new bo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Jamilah King on the digital divide, John Knefel on OWS arrestsThis week on CounterSpin: Few deny anymore that internet access is becoming critical to taking part in political and economic life. So, what does it matter that research shows that higher proportions of African Americans and Latinos than white people are achieving that access through relatively more affordable smartphones rather than home computers? Our guest says unless things are changed, it's going to matter very much indeed. Jamilah King from Colorlines.com will join us to talk about th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Michael Dorsey on COP-17, Karl Grossman on FukushimaThis week on CounterSpin: The annual United Nations meeting on climate change is underway. That might be news to you if you rely on television for your information. These international conferences tend to produce stories that dwell on the lack of progress, or the unwillingness of countries like China to do more. Dartmouth environmental studies professor Michael Dorsey is on the scene in Durban, South Africa and he'll join us to talk about what's happening—and what's at stake.
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Sharif Abdel Kouddous on Egypt, Hannah Gurman on FallujahThis week on CounterSpin: Egypt just finished its first round of elections since the uprising earlier this year by democratic activists. So why aren't the activists overjoyed? We'll talk about the state of democracy in Egypt and the way US corporate media are covering it, with independent journalist and Democracy Now! Cairo correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous.
Also on the program: US elite media provided cover for the military during the 2004 invasion of Fallujah, dismissing and downplayin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Charles Kurzman on 'Missing Martyrs,' Amy Goodman on arresting journalistsThis week on CounterSpin: The coverage of the recent arrest of a would-be Muslim terrorist ready to carry out attacks here at home had a we've-been-here-before feel. Whatever questions might surround this particular case, most media consumers are by now accustomed to the general presumption that Muslim terrorism is a serious, prevalent danger. University of North Carolina Islam scholar Charles Kurzman argues exactly the opposite in his recent book, The Missing Martyrs: Why There Are So Few ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Julie Berebitsky on sexual harassment, Jim Horn on educationThis week on CounterSpin: Sexual harassment has been in the news recently because of allegations that GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain sexually harassed women in the 1990s. But what does the way media discuss sexual harassment tell us about how we view women, especially working women? We'll talk to Julie Berebitsky, professor of history and womens' studies at Sewanee: The University of the South.
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Cyrus Safdari on Iran/IAEA, Frances Fox Piven on povertyThis week on CounterSpin: The International Atomic Energy Agency published its latest report on Iran on November 8th, but for nearly two weeks beforehand news media were rife with leak-based stories promising the report would be "game changing." What did it actually say, and what of that is to be believed? We'll talk to Cyrus Safdari who is tracking the story at IranAffairs.com.
Also on the show this week: As the Occupy movement continues to focus attention on economic inequality, a spate ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Costas Panayotakis on Greece, Nusrat Choudhury on FBI mappingThis week on CounterSpin: This is how ABC anchor Diane Sawyer explained the Greek crisis: "The Dow down nearly 300 points, so, what changed? Well, blame it on the country of Greece, long criticized for being undisciplined and now threatening American retirements." With the EU bailout of Greek in danger and the government calling for a referendum, corporate media in this country are back to bashing pampered Greek workers and demanding austerity as the cure for the country's fiscal woes. NY C ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
John Feffer on Africa & 'counter-terrorism,' Heidi Garrett-Peltier on job creationThis week on CounterSpin: When Barack Obama ordered armed military advisors to central Africa to help regional officials fight the brutal Lord's Resistance Army and its leader Joseph Kony, few journalists asked why or why now. The fact that the LRA is bad seemed to be enough. But is the move against the LRA part of something bigger happening in US foreign policy with regard to Africa? Well talk to the Institute for Policy Studies' John Feffer about searching for terrorists in Africa.
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Todd Tucker on trade deals, Karuna Jaggar on Think Before You PinkThis week on CounterSpin: The congressional passage of so-called 'free trade' agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama was met with applause by many in the corporate media. The cheering was not only for the corporate friendly provisions of the bills, but for what journalists insist was the bipartisan support for the legislation. Todd Tucker of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch will join us with a different view of the trade pacts.
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Arun Gupta on Occupy Wall Street, Jasmin Ramsey on Iran plotThis week on CounterSpin: Did the corporate media turn on the Occupy Wall Street protests? When the protests started, the media story was a familiar one—the press ignored them, then derided activists for being leaderless, bongo pounding know-nothings. But then something happened, and suddenly anti-Wall Street activism is leading the nightly newscasts and splashed on the front page. Independent journalist and co-founder of the Occupied Wall Street Journal Arun Gupta will join us to tal ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Harvey Wasserman on Solyndra, Diane Ravitch and Brian Jones on MisEducation NationThis week on CounterSpin: The Solyndra scandal is the kind of story tailor made for Fox News: A green jobs creating solar power company receiving millions of dollars of taxpayer funds celebrated by the Obama White House... goes belly up. Much of the coverage all but shouts 'Scandal!'. It's not that there's nothing here, but the story we're hearing about Solyndra might not be the one we should be hearing. Journalist and activist Harvey Wasserman will join us to talk about that.
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Allison Kilkenny on Occupy Wall Street, Moshe Adler on U.S. Postal ServiceThis week on CounterSpin: Yes, the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations aren't being covered much in the corporate media. But then when papers like the New York Times come down to take a look, one might wish they hadn't. We'll talk to Allison Kilkenny of Citizen Radio about the quality and quantity of media coverage of Occupy Wall Street.
Also on the show: "We all know why the Postal Service is hemorrhaging cash," says the Chicago Tribune. Corporate media are clear on the causes of the Post O ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Neil deMause on poverty, Phyllis Bennis on Palestinian statehoodThis week on CounterSpin: Census Bureau data showing one in six Americans live in poverty was received soberly by the press corps, but should it have surprised them? And what about next week, when the government doesn't release a report and people are still poor? We'll talk with journalist Neil deMause about media’s treatment of poverty and the poor.
Also on the show: Mainstream reporting on the Palestinian bid for UN recognition regularly employs loaded language in portraying the in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Brandi Grissom on Texas death penalty, Tom Engelhardt on campaign coverageThis week on CounterSpin: For a lot of people, the Republican debate on September 9 had one memorable moment: when Texas governor Rick Perry was asked about his state's death penalty record, the audience cheered wildly. Moderator Brian Williams wanted to know if Perry lost sleep worrying whether he'd ever executed an innocent man. Perry said no, and that's where it was left. But what's the record in Texas? We'll ask Texas Tribune reporter Brandi Grissom.
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Katie Galloway on 'Better This World,' Yousef Munayyer on Palmer ReportThis week on CounterSpin: Two men were arrested at the 2008 Republican National Convention and charged with a firebombing plot. For the FBI and headline writers, violent domestic terrorists had been thwarted before the act. The new film Better This World takes another look at the story and finds much more to say about the definition of terrorism and the U.S. legal system. We'll speak with filmmaker Katie Galloway.
Also on CounterSpin today, a UN report about last year's Israeli raid on a h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Lorne Stockman on Keystone pipeline, Faiz Shakir on "Fear Inc."This week on CounterSpin: Why have more than 700 people been arrested at the White House in recent days? Don't ask nightly news-- they've so far yet to find anything newsworthy in the largest environmental action in years: a massive protest against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. We'll get the story TV's missing from Lorne Stockman, Research Director at the group Oil Change International.
Also on CounterSpin today, the Center for American Progress has published a new report on Islamopho ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Faiza Patel on NYPD surveillance, Rena Steinzor on regulatory reformsThis week on CounterSpin: An Associated Press report about how the New York City Police Department is working with the CIA to carry out domestic spying operations on minorities in cities across the U.S., is making some waves, and raising questions about ethnic and racial profiling. NYPD has tried to deny aspects of the August 25th story, and on August 26th, a news conference by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was cut short when a reporter asked about it. We'll be joined by Faiza Patel, the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Jim Hightower on Rick Perry, Glen Ford on SomaliaThis week on CounterSpin: 'Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be elected president of the United States, please pay attention.' That was late columnist Molly Ivins' advice near the end of the George W. Bush era. But lo and behold another Republican governor of Texas is running for president, and from the tone of the coverage so far Rick Perry is some kind of job-creating machine. What else should we know about Rick Perry? Texas columnist and commentator Jim Hightower will jo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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Bill Hartung on military cuts, Rania Khalek on taping the policeThis week on CounterSpin. The debt ceiling has been lifted; that fixed everything, right? Well, the Democratic base is unhappy with the White House capitulation, the ratings agencies still aren't sure the United States has its fiscal house in order, and there's nothing here to address the jobs crisis. Of the budget cuts we've been hearing about, reports say that one early slice comes from the military budget--with a second round of potentially larger cuts possible in a few months. But is th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Devin Burghart on Norway terror, Julianne Escobedo Shepherd on Strauss-Kahn caseThis week on CounterSpin: The US media narrative equating terrorism with Islam was on embarrassing display last week following the Norwegian terror attacks, a story which raised issues about right-wing extremism, and the links between violent speech and violent actions. We'll speak with Devin Burghart, the vice president of the Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights, who has written about white nationalism in Norway and the US.
Also on CounterSpin today, some things about t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Mary Bottari on ALEC Exposed, Marjorie Cohn on prison hunger strikeThis week on CounterSpin: You've probably never heard of the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC. So why do they have so much sway over the laws affecting your life? We may get some sunlight on the actions of this influential "public/private membership organization" with the release of a cache of previously secret documents on their work. We'll hear from Mary Bottari of the Center for Media and Democracy about the ALEC Exposed project, and what it all means.
Also on the show: A ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
James Galbraith on debt ceiling, John Nichols on Murdoch scandalsThis week on CounterSpin: The United States is hurtling toward fiscal catastrophe as the dramatic standoff persists between Barack Obama and Congressional Republicans on a deal to raise the debt ceiling... that's the story anyway. How much of this is political theatre and what's the fallout for non-politicians likely to be? We'll hear from economist James Galbraith about questions the elite media aren't asking about this debt ceiling debate.
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Noam Chomsky on Arab Spring, Monica Novoa on Drop the I WordThis week on CounterSpin: Where things stand with the Arab Spring and drive for democracy in the region. U.S. interests have always been prioritized over human rights and democratic values; the people-powered uprisings have threatened the status quo and scrambled some of the usual media narratives. But how much? We'll hear from MIT professor about longtime activist and critic Noam Chomsky about what has changed—and what hasn't—over the past few months. Chomsky's speech was part ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Patrick Cockburn on Libya, Jordan Flaherty on New Orleans trialThis week on CounterSpin: Congressional debate over the Libya War shows an apparently bipartisan sense of frustration and outrage over the NATO mission. This has triggered a serious debate over the legality of the war, among other things. But there is almost no discussion of whether the pretext for the war has actually held up. Patrick Cockburn of the Independent has been investigating the stories of mass rapes and mercenary fighters that paved the way to war, and he'll tell us what he's fo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Susan Saladoff on Hot Coffee, Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky on Battle for BrooklynThis week on CounterSpin we're talking about two new films which, while journalism is not their central subject, directly engage news media's influence and real world impact as a critical part of the stories they tell.
First up: You've heard the one about the old woman who sued McDonalds for MILLIONS just because her coffee was hot! A new documentary tells the real story about that infamous case— starting with how almost everything you know about it is wrong. The film Hot Coffee expl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Shahid Buttar on civil liberties, Gareth Porter on Syed Saleem ShahzadThis week on CounterSpin: An activist in Texas gets his FBI files—and finds out that agents have been tailing him for years. Activists in the Midwest are the targets of a wide-ranging investigation, including a half-dozen house raids and an array of subpoenas. And—oh yeah—parts of the Patriot Act were renewed, there's an effort to extend the term of FBI chief Robert Mueller, and the FBI is giving agents new powers. Can media start connecting the dots? We'll ask Shahid Butt ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Harvey Wasserman on Fukushima; Andrew Fieldhouse on Bush tax cutsThis week on CounterSpin: After a lull in reporting about the Japanese nuclear disaster comes news that officials there are admitting that radiation releases were much larger than previously claimed-- not a surprise to critics who saw those early claims as part of a government/corporate/media misinformation loop that kicks in whenever we talk about nuclear power. So what is the real story out of Fukushima, and where can you get independent information? We'll talk to journalist and activist ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Jane Slaughter on NLRB-Boeing, Pamela Newkirk on black journalistsThis week on CounterSpin: the National Labor Relations Board has told Boeing that they can’t move operations from Washington to South Carolina in order to avoid union organizing. It may seem straightforward that a company can’t retaliate against workers for exercising their legal rights but the ruling has anti-labor conservatives in uproar and so-called mainstream reporters aren’t doing much to set the record straight. We’ll hear from Jane Slaughter of Labor Notes ab ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Bill McKibben on climate and extreme weather, Allison Kilkenny on protest movementsThis week on CounterSpin: The deadliest tornado in decabes swept through Missouri, the latest example of what seem to be unusually volatile weather patterns around the world. But when it comes to discussing extreme weather, one thing media don't want to dwell on is climate change. Environmental activist and author Bill McKibben wrote in the Washington Post about the detached way in which our strange new weather is discussed. He'll join us to talk about it.
Also on CounterSpin today, there ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Ali Abunimah on Palestinian protests, Glenn Greenwald from FAIR’s 25th AnniversaryThis week on CounterSpin: The Israeli defense minister says that major protests like those on Israel's borders May 15th require new responses; but what if anything is new about US journalists' approach to Palestinian protests and rights? Journalist Ali Abunimah of Electronic Intifada will join us to talk about that.
Also on the show: We'll play part of Glenn Greenwald's address at FAIR's recent 25th Anniversary celebration at Symphony Space in New York City. The Salon writer shared his tho ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Miranda Spencer on renewable energy, Mike Ervin on Medicaid protestsThis week on CounterSpin: What are renewables and why are media telling us so little about them? With energy prices rising, and a nuclear disaster still unfolding in Japan, it would seem to be the perfect time to talk about renewable energy sources, like solar, wind and geothermal. But this hasn't been the case. Independent journalist Miranda Spencer will join us to talk about how the media dismiss alternative forms of energy that are safer, cleaner and cheaper, but apparently still less jo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Matthew Alexander on torture, Tyson Slocum on gas pricesThis week on CounterSpin: The killing of Osama bin Laden has delivered plenty of media themes: Can the U.S. trust Pakistan? What does this mean for Al Qaeda? And, predictably enough, did Bush-era torture help find the al Qaeda leader? Torture advocates' insistence that this proves their case has given media yet another chance to weigh the supposed benefits of illegal interrogation. We'll speak with former military interrogator and author Matthew Alexander about why this is all wrong.
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Andy Worthington on Guantanamo files, Lucinda Marshall on Greg MortensonThis week on CounterSpin: If you've heard much at all about WikiLeaks new disclosures about Guantanamo, you've probably noticed that US media tend to emphasize information justifying and rationalizing the U.S. actions regarding its offshore prison camp. But what should listeners really know about the new WikiLeaks revelations? We'll talk with journalist and Guantanamo expert Andy Worthington about what the latest disclosures mean.
Also on CounterSpin today, the U.S. public soured on the Af ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Amanda Marcotte on Planned Parenthood, Dave Lindorff on Standard & Poor's 'negative outlook'This week on CounterSpin: The budget battle over Planned Parenthood's federal funding produced more than the average dose of media misinformation. And clues, mostly missed by the media about the GOP's actual agenda. We'll talk with journalist and blogger Amanda Marcotte about Planned Parenthood.
Also on the show: Standard & Poor's issued a "negative outlook" report on the U.S. debt, warning that the country's credit could be in jeopardy in the next few years. If true this could serious ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Sharif Abdel Kouddous on Egypt, John Nichols on labor and WisconsinThis week on CounterSpin: With the Egyptian military still firmly in power, the Egyptian revolution is still very much a work in progress. The same military that we were once told was a liberal friend of democratic activists, is reportedly continuing policies of torture, political detainment and censorship. But you wouldn't know this from the reporting of many US media outlets, who seemed to lose interest in Egypt after the ouster of Hosni Mubarak in February. We'll talk about Egypt with in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Harold Meyerson on Paul Ryan, Lizzy Ratner on Goldstone ReportThis week on CounterSpin:. Republican Budget Committee chair Paul Ryan unveiled his party's budget plan this week. Media consumers learned that Ryan is gutsy, that he's serious as a heart attack, that the plan is bold and sweeping... but what would it mean for peoples' lives? And what would reporting look like if it stayed focused on that. We'll talk to Harold Meyerson of the Washington Post and the American Prospect about the 'vision' in the Ryan budget, which Meyerson says isn't really ab ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Stephen Zunes on Libya, Karen Greenberg on "America's Growing Intolerance"This week on CounterSpin: The U.S.-led NATO bombing of Libya was supposed to last just a few days. It was supposed to just protect Libyan civilians. And, according to the White House, we weren't supposed to think of it as a war at all—it is a "kinetic military action." But the war in Libya has unmistakably expanded, with serious talk of arming anti-Qaddafi rebels and removing the Libyan dictator from power. Stephen Zunes from the University of San Francisco will join us to talk about ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Asli Bali on Libya, Alia Malek on US Muslim prisonsThis week on CounterSpin: The U.S.'s sudden military involvement in Libya raises many questions that have not been answered by officials who've plunged the country into a war they say is to protect civilians, or even asked by many journalists who have been too busy cheering to ask them. Questions like how certain are we that going war will be better for Libyan civilians than the threat they faced from Libyan dictator Muammar el-Gadhafi? And what solutions short of war were sought? We'll be ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Arjun Makhijani on Japan's nuclear crisis, Cindy Folkers on radiation & healthThis week on CounterSpin: Ever notice how corporate media coverage of nuclear accidents largely avoids industry critics, in favor of industry defenders generally low-balling the health and safety dangers of the technology? That's never been truer than in coverage of the Japanese nuclear disaster, which, as with earlier accidents, the initial, rosy predictions by media-favored experts have clearly been overtaken by dire facts. We'll talk to Dr. Arjun Makhijani, an industry critic, nuclear en ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Phyllis Bennis on Libya, Graham Rayman on Newburgh FourThis week on CounterSpin: Soldiers loyal to Libya's Muammar Qaddafi continue their assault on rebels, nearly a month into the democratic uprising there. Media are debating how and when and even whether the US should intervene, but how much of their reasoning has anything to do with what Libyans want? We'll talk with Phyllis Bennis from the Institute for Policy Studies about Libya.
Also on CounterSpin today, Congressman Peter King's hearings on Islamic extremism are generating headlines and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Chuck Collins on U.S. Uncut, Laura Flanders on WisconsinThis week on CounterSpin: As politicians of both parties and pundits of various ideological stripes discuss what services and rights need to be cut and stripped from working people, the subject of raising taxes seem almost taboo in corporate media discussions. Not so here. We'll talk about raising taxes with Chuck Collins, a senior scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies, and the co-founder of U.S. Uncut, a network working to stop corporate tax dodging.
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