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This week on CounterSpin: The US is facing humanitarian and political crises, and media will be judged on how they choose to respond.
When a government is holding people who have committed no crime in camps that Holocaust survivors describe as “concentration camps,” do you, as a media outlet, host dialog about how to put a stop to it—or about how there’s a debate about immigration policy in which there are many legitimate positions, one of which, maybe, is the concentration camp position?
We’ll talk about that with journalist Arun Gupta, one of the organizers behind the NoMoreCamps! campaign.
Transcript: ‘Journalism Is Helping to Normalize the Concentration Camps’
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When faced with cataclysmic climate disruption, and witnessing legislators who take money from the companies profiting from the disaster prevent communities from passing laws to confront it, do you talk about how to stop that—or about how there’s a debate on how democracy works, and even Abe Lincoln avoided a vote, you know?
CounterSpin also talks this week with Zoe Carpenter, associate Washington editor at The Nation, who wrote about the Oregon GOP’s violent power grab to deflect the public will on climate action.
Transcript: On Climate, ‘Looking at the Structural Barriers to Progress Is Important’
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It would also be fair for Zoe Carpenter and the Nation write an article on how eager the Democrats in the Oregon legislature were to sell our children’s bodies to Merck, Glaxo Smith Kline, Sanofi and Pfizer as a condition to receive a public education. The Republicans for the most part at least understood that parental rights and government overreach. Democrats are now the party of Big Pharma. While Zoe may take a deeper look at the powers behind the Republicans walking out on climate legislation, she seems perfectly willing to ignore how Merck, Glaxo Smith Kline, Sanofi and Pfizer (the big 4) who manufacture the vast majority of mandated vaccines; who profit enormously from their liability-free products mandated to a captive audience.
Informed Consent means nothing to the Democrats. The Nuremberg Code of Medical Ethics means nothing to the Democrats. The 2005 UN Declaration of Human Rights means nothing to the Democrats.
Zoe, there is a name for that behavior –vincible ignorance