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CNN (6/11/14) depicts child refugees as “illegal immigrant children.”
This week on CounterSpin: In August of last year, El Salvador experienced one murder per hour. With Honduras and Guatemala, it’s among the most violent places in the world, which along with economic insecurity and government failures, spurs thousands of people to try and leave. Why is the US stepping up deportation of Central American families, sending them back to circumstances of hardship and danger? We’ll speak with Suyapa Portillo, who teaches Chicano/a-Latino/a transnational studies at Pitzer College in California about that story.
Transcript: What Happens to These Hundreds of Thousands of People That Are Being Deported?’
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Michael Ratner (photo: Witness to Guantanamo)
Also on the show: Justice lost a champion with the May 11 death of Michael Ratner, human rights lawyer and president emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights. We spoke with Michael Ratner many times over the years; we bring you one of those conversations in this week’s show. It’s about the appointment of Alberto Gonzalez as US attorney general, and it’s as relevant now as it was then.
Transcript: ‘Has Our Country Gone Just Mad?’
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And a very quick look back at the week’s press, including the New York Times‘ deceptive optimism and confirmation of the CIA’s role in imprisoning Nelson Mandela.
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Alberto R. Gonzales served two and a half years as Attorney General, resigned on the verge of being impeached and holds the record for telling most lies to Congress under oath and the record for firing the most U,S, Attorneys (9) for purely political reasons.
What a grand crop of next generation activists we would have, if this weekly exposure of mainstream media brainwash — if it was heard in every high school civics class in America.