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Amazon Seattle HQ (cc photo: kiewic)
This week on CounterSpin: Corporate media aren’t in the business of challenging the idea that corporations are benevolent social actors who bring benefits to the communities lucky enough to have them. So even if Amazon didn’t own a major newspaper, there was no reason to expect much by way of deep media criticism of the company’s search for a second “HQ”—even as that led to cash-strapped US cities falling over one another to offer tax breaks and subsidies to a corporation that paid zero federal taxes last year on profits of over $11 billion. Surprisingly, some media followed the lead of community organizers and questioned the deal—questions Amazon pulled out over rather than engage. More surprisingly, the deal’s end didn’t end the questions. We’ll hear that story from journalist Neil deMause, author of, most recently, The Brooklyn Wars.
Transcript: ‘It Was a Remarkably Successful Grassroots Campaign to Target Amazon’s Credibility’
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(photo: International Women’s Health Coalition)
Also on the show: We may wish and work for a world in which countries don’t have to rely on aid from the US to fund critical social programs. But while the US is a global aid provider, we’re right to examine how that aid is employed: Does it build up or weaken? Support or coerce? When it comes to global health funding, recent Republican presidents, but especially Donald Trump, have used that aid to restrict women’s healthcare, and even the discussion of women’s healthcare—with effects that are as harmful as they are predictable. We’ll talk about the fightback to that problem with Nina Besser Doorley, senior program officer for US foreign policy at the International Women’s Health Coalition.
Transcript: ‘This Policy Has Led to Reduced Access to Critical Health Services’
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