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This week on CounterSpin: A senior UN human rights official told the BBC that there is a “plausible” case that Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, a war crime. Meanwhile, US citizens struggle to make sense of White House policy that seems to call for getting aid to Palestinians while pursuing a course of action that makes that aid necessary, if insufficient.
Phyllis Bennis is senior fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, an international advisor with Jewish Voice for Peace and a longtime UN-watcher. She joins us with thoughts on the evolving situation.
Transcript: ‘This Is About What Has to Happen to Stop This Genocide’
Also on the show: As reporter Alex Sammon outlined five years ago in the American Prospect, the Boeing scandal is an exemplar of the corporate crisis of our age. Putting resources that should’ve been put into safety into shareholder dividends and stock buybacks, selling warning indicators that alert pilots to problems with flight-control software as optional extras, and outsourcing engineering to coders in India making $9 an hour—these weren’t accidents; they were choices, made consciously, over time. So why are media so excited about Boeing’s CEO stepping down, as though his “taking one for the team” means changing the playbook? We hear from Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen.
Transcript: ‘Punishments for Corporations and CEOs Are Just Paltry’
Both of the stories on this page from FAIR are examples of democracy at its worst, or capitalism-imperialism at its worst. Both are heartbreaking, both are examples also of humanity at its worst. Reading this kind of expose is so disheartening. George Carlin used to say in one of his monologues, that humanity was another failed biological experiment, an evolutionary cul-de-sac. Yes to both.
Hurray for Jeanine unfailingly having important voices to interview!