Looking Away From Police Killings
That so many black people are killed by law enforcement is a painful, difficult thing to face. That we don’t know how many people is a scandal in itself.
SoundBites January/February 2015
Making ‘Torture’ Impossible When the Washington Post (12/9/14) described on the Senate Intelligence Committee report on the treatment of prisoners at CIA “black sites,” it said it documented “harsh interrogation measures,” “painful procedures” and even “seemingly arbitrary violence.” But what it didn’t say was that this treatment was “torture”—except when saying it was “deemed torture […]
‘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.
Hillary Clinton and the Feminism of Exclusion
Hillary Clinton’s version of feminism is one of exclusion, serving state power and capital under the banner of gender equality.
Spinning Tuition Hikes as a Clash of Politicians
Corporate media did little to contextualize the University of California tuition hikes within the regents’ broader turn toward privatization. Nor did they report on the robust student movement against privatization that contributed to student mobilization.
Media and the ‘Melting Pot’
Not only does the melting pot cliché erase the presence of people in “undiscovered” neighborhoods, but it glosses over the structural reasons why they are now “gritty” and “forgotten.”
Mexican Students Didn’t Just ‘Disappear’
The majority of English-language news accounts have failed to provide a deeper context concerning the failed war on drugs and the use of forced disappearances as a repressive state tactic, and employ language that often criminalizes the disappeared students.
