‘People in Venezuela Can Oppose the Government But Still Reject US Intervention’: CounterSpin interview with Michelle Ellner on Venezuela invasion

"That's what I want people to understand, that that opposition that is asking for the US to bomb their country, they are not the majority of Venezuela."

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Reckoning with the Federal Communications Commission’s history of structural racism

Since the agency’s inception, FCC policies have undermined the 14th Amendment rights of Black people and Black communities.

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CounterSpin: We’ve always heard that racists hate quotas, yet Stephen Miller’s “3000 a day however which way” mandate is terrorizing immigrant communities—brown immigrant communities—around the country. The response from people of conscience can look many ways: linking arms around people in danger, absolutely; vigorously disputing misinformation about immigrants, whether hateful or patronizing, also. But another piece is gaining a deeper, broader understanding of migration. News media could help answer one implied question—“Why is anyone trying to come to the US anyway?”—by grappling with the role of conditions the US has largely created in the places people are driven from. We’ll talk about that largely missing piece from elite media’s immigration coverage with Michael Galant, senior research and outreach associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.


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Michael Galant on Sanctions & Immigration, LaToya Parker on Budget’s Racial Impacts

News media could help explain immigration by grappling with the role of conditions the US has largely created in the places people are driven from.

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"The prophet's hands tremble" --- I.A. Richards
> There’s a deep history of protest music and music as protest, and our guest is very intentionally a part of it. Tom Morello is a guitarist; part of Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave, Prophets of Rage and The Nightwatchman, among many other projects. His music has always been intertwined with his activism and advocacy for social, racial, economic justice; so we talk about the work of artists in Trumpian times with Tom Morello, this week on
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This week on #CounterSpin: Policy impacts on people with disabilities are overwhelmingly an afterthought for corporate media, though it’s a community anyone can join at any moment.

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David Perry on MAGA & Disability, Kehsi Iman Wilson (2023) on ADA

Policy impacts on people with disabilities are overwhelmingly an afterthought for corporate media, though it’s a community anyone can join at any moment.

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‘We Have a Widespread Failure to Properly Name This Plan for Ethnic CleansingCounterSpin interview with Gregory Shupak on Palestine ethnic cleansing

"What we're talking about is driving out the indigenous population so that settlers can take over their land."

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Sonali Kolhatkar & Laura Flanders on independent media and the year ahead:

"I find a huge difference in the way in which communities of color and journalists of color and women journalists are covering solutions, and covering the problems of our world through a solutions lens, because the urgency for us is so real. We're on the front lines. It's not as much about likes and clicks and algorithms, as much as it is about actually solving the problem."

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‘Right Beneath the Surface Is This Level of Fury at the Way Things Are, and a Willingness to Act’: CounterSpin interview with Sonali Kolhatkar and Laura Flanders on independent media and the year ahead

"It's not as much about likes and clicks and algorithms, as much as it is about actually solving the problem."

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Transcript of #CounterSpin's interview with Arlene Martinez on #Amazon's subsidized misconduct:

"As bad as Amazon‘s record is, and it is bad, it would be worse if we treated workers with the same care and with the same concern that we do as investors who got cheated on an investment."

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‘Regulatory Agencies Need to Make Sure Amazon Is Broken Up or Contained’CounterSpin interview with Arlene Martinez on Amazon misconduct

"So many of the issues with Amazon...are because we've lacked a lot of the regulatory mechanisms to contain it from ever becoming this big."

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"What is considered as speech has really exploded when it comes to the corporate landscape: Are tax returns and contracts considered speech? What does that mean for our government's power to look into financial wrongdoing, and prevent tax fraud and prevent money laundering, if all of those things are considered as speech, and the government cannot force anybody to “say" and disclose such information?"
--#CounterSpin interview with Katherine Li of @thelever

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