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“The United States, through the coup d’etat, was in cahoots with elite power in Honduras that replaced a democratically elected president.”
“States have the ability to simply say, ‘You can’t sell this stuff…and then unsell it using an unfair and deceptive contract.'”
“I found a bunch of liberal organizations that sought to reform this and that, expand this and that, or reestablish particular programs.”
“When the chips are down, the Constitution is only as good as the worst five people who sit on the Supreme Court.”
“The government is always involved in our news information systems. But the question is, how should it be involved?”
“There’s a sense of frustration that everything they’re doing to try to compel the US to take a more balanced approach is failing.”
“This has really real implications for…the people living in Palestine, but also for how the issue is presented and understood in even just factual reporting.”
“How would we go about suing every single time we have our rights violated, when that happens every single day?”
“The truth of the matter is there are vested interests for folks to want to vilify workers, to want to vilify big public investments.”
An exercise in culture jamming got two Northwestern students brought up on a charge that could have landed them in prison for a year.
“We will continue down this really ugly road of, how violent are we willing to get with people? That’s the question we’re at in 2024.”
“What invest/divest demands is the investing in mental health support, the investing in first responders who actually know what to do in a crisis,”
“The Republicans have turned their entire apparatus, not into improving people’s lives, but into taking away their right to vote.”
“This notion that Israel is defending itself relies on the preposterous assumption that the violence began on October 7.”
“Where you don’t see progress on the minimum wage, it’s because our politics or our institutions hold back the popular will.”
Elite reporters are so removed from daily reality that they assume a raise in wages means fast food employees have to lose their jobs.
“Don’t let them intimidate you. Don’t be silenced. The First Amendment gives you the right to speak and act for your conscience.”
The best of CounterSpin for 2023 is only a sample of the valuable conversations it’s been our pleasure to host this year.
“There’s a question of who gets on the list…. It’s not something that you or I can say anything about or influence.”
“You’ve got to think about the oil industry the way you think about the tobacco industry…. Nobody is looking to the tobacco companies for healthcare policy.”
