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This week on CounterSpin: Cuba is not so much a country for elite US media as a cartoon; but Barack Obama’s visit—the first by a sitting US president since Calvin Coolidge—offered a chance to revisit some of the conventional wisdom on Cuba and what media blanded out as years of “historical baggage.” We talk about what would really need to change to “normalize” US/Cuba relations with historian and activist Aviva Chomsky, author of The Cuba Reader, among other titles.
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Transcript: ‘We Have Never Ignored Cuba’
Also on the show: We’ll go with Obama to Argentina, where a thrilled press corps tells us a new day is dawning with the election of “former businessman” Mauricio Mauri. Though he’s not an actual superhero, CBS News did say he made Argentina “pro-American” “in a flash.” Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic and Foreign Policy joins us to talk about that.
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Transcript: ‘They Want South America Back the Way They Used to Have It’
And first, a look back at the week’s press, including selective mourning for terrorism victims, the Today show’s enthusiasm for torture and the Pentagon saving money by not saving lives.
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