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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.
Transcript: ‘Crypto Is the Biggest Corruption Issue With Trump’
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.
Transcript: ‘This Budget Would Give Polluters the Green Light’
Plus Janine Jackson looks back on an interview with the late Robert McChesney.
Not to make too big a dissent or anything, but renewables have their own ills that ought to be addressed; especially the mining and utilization of rare earth minerals. I’ve seen videos of people in Democratic Republic of the Congo, and other countries nearby, submerging in mines dozens of feet deep, and just wide enough for a body to plunge through, the miners digging at the soil for their “artisan” metals.