Bianca Nozaki-Nasser on Anti-Asian Bias
Media’s prescription of law enforcement as the primary response is called by many Asian Americans a problem presenting itself as a solution,
NYT’s Africa: A Place of Failure and No Leadership
Coverage of Covid-19 in Africa, despite the continent’s relatively low infection rates, is disproportionately grim and macabre.
Thomas Friedman’s Crazy Poor Economics
Aside from the racism of the column’s headline—note that it’s different to say that some individuals in an ethnic group are “crazy rich” than it is to say that a group as a whole is poor because they’re crazy—it’s just empirically wrong to suggest that Middle Eastern countries are poorer as a whole than Asian countries.
‘What Open Borders Mean for Corporations Is Really About Restricting Workers’ Rights’
“Samsung has found all sorts of creative ways, depending on which regulatory system they’re working under, to evade labor contract law and keep workers on these short-term contracts.”
‘Obama Is Trying to Get Congress to Give Him a Blank Check’
CounterSpin’s Janine Jackson speaks with Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, about whether bipartisan support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal is a good thing—or even exists at all.
Murtaza Hussain on Khorasan Group, Vijay Prashad on Narendra Modi
This week on CounterSpin: When the US military attacks on Syria got underway, there was a sudden shift in the coverage: We weren’t just bombing the Islamic State, but something called the Khorasan Group. But who are they and how come no one had ever heard of them before? We’ll talk to reporter Murtaza Hussain of the Intercept about that.
Also this week: Indian prime minister Narendra Modi received a royal welcome when he arrived in the US for a visit on September 26. For a republic, it’s always been a little strange how the US treats foreign heads of states like royalty, but with his controversial past and politics, Modi’s treatment was even more curious than most. We’ll talk with Trinity College history professor Vijay Prashad about Modi’s American reception.
North Korea Rattles Sabers While U.S. Drops Fake Nukes
Seemingly out of nowhere, North Korea became the top news story at the beginning of April. Tensions between the United States and North Korea were on the rise after new supreme leader Kim Jong Un conducted several missile and weapons tests, beginning at the end of 2012. The threats, bluster and provocations that followed led […]
After Fukushima, Media Still Buying Nuclear Spin
Ever since the start of nuclear technology, those behind it have made heavy use of deception, obfuscation and denial—with the complicity of most of the media. New York Times reporter William Laurence, working at the same time with the Manhattan Project, wrote a widely published press release covering up the first nuclear test in New […]
Daniel Ellsberg and Rick Goldsmith on ‘The Most Dangerous Man in America’
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin091809 Daniel Ellsberg and Rick Goldsmith @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin091809.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: The Most Dangerous Man in America. That’s how Henry Kissinger described whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who famously leaked a top-secret study of the Vietnam War in 1971 to the New York Times and other news outlets. The publication resulted in a landmark […]
John Feffer on North Korea, Melissa Goodman on Patriot Act
John Feffer on North Korea. Also on the show: ACLU’s Melissa Goodman discusses the incredible secrecy that continues to surround the Patriot Act.
How the New York Times Blew My Lai
“I was in Paris with a delightful, interesting man who works for the Times, John Hess. John was in the Paris bureau, and hewas one of the people who sort of straightened me out about Vietnam. He bugged me about it and told me I had to learn more–and I did. —New York Times columnist […]
Innocent Americans, Predatory Asians
The complex relationship between the United States and Japan lends itself to mutual distrust. For Japan, the scars left by 1853 (when U.S. gunships forced Japan to allow U.S. trade access), the turn-of-the century “yellow peril” bigotry, and the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are deep and enduring. For the U.S., where memories […]
