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‘These stores are unhealthy for our communities’
CounterSpin interview with Kennedy Smith on dollar store invasion
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The NYT’s one true subject is the One Percent
From granular coverage of the career triumphs of nepo babies and the goings-on at elite universities, to deep dives about luxury real estate and ritzy goods and services most people have never heard of, it’s clear that the New York Times’ most cherished subject is the One Percent.
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‘We’re seeing Universities following a corporate agenda to get favor with donors’
CounterSpin interview with Ellen Schrecker on the attack on academic freedom
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As corals bleach worldwide, some outlets are willing to name the cause: Fossil fuels
Record levels of heat in the ocean are causing once-colorful coral reefs around the world to bleach a ghostly white.
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‘Are you going to end the genocide, President Biden? That’s the central question’
CounterSpin interview with Ahmad Abuznaid on Rafah invasion.
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TikTok law is an attempt to censor, not a warning to Big Tech
As U.S. lawmakers’ agitation over TikTok culminates in a law that threatens a nationwide ban if the social media platform isn’t sold to a U.S. buyer within nine months, an emergent media narrative finds a silver lining.
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Media scorn Gaza protesters for recognizing corporate reporters aren’t their friends
An emerging complaint the corporate media have against the nationwide—and now international—peace encampments is that many student protesters won’t speak to them.
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As peace protests are violently suppressed, CNN paints them as hate rallies
As peace activists occupied common spaces on campuses across the country, some in corporate media very clearly took sides, portraying student protesters as violent, hateful and/or stupid. CNN offered some of the most striking of these characterizations.
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‘This weaponization is meant to shift focus away from Gaza’
CounterSpin interview with Sam on Students for Justice in Palestine.
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‘A monopoly on the bomb would be a catastrophe for the world’
CounterSpin interview with Dave Lindorff on Spy for No Country.
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The McCarthyist attack on Gaza protests threatens free thought for all
With the encouragement of the state, universities from coast to coast are taking draconian steps to silence debate about U.S.-backed violence in the Middle East.
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‘Interventions laid the groundwork for the crisis in Haiti today’
CounterSpin interview with Chris Bernadel on Haiti
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‘Punishments for corporations and CEOs are just paltry’
CounterSpin interview with Robert Weissman on Boeing scandal.
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‘In even the best coverage there is no accountability for the Fossil Fuel Industry’
CounterSpin interview with Evlondo Cooper on climate coverage.
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Flour massacre called ‘aid-related deaths’—rather than part of Israel’s engineered famine
Over 100 Palestinians were killed and hundreds more wounded on February 29, when Israeli snipers opened fire on people approaching a convoy of trucks carrying desperately needed supplies of flour. The attack was quickly dubbed the flour massacre.
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House votes against TikTok—and for more Cold War
A bipartisan effort to effectively ban the social media network TikTok in the United States has taken a great leap forward.
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At Northwestern U, distributing a parody paper gets you threatened with prison
Students at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, produced a parody edition of the school’s paper, the Daily Northwestern, to call out the school’s stance on Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Source who revealed how taxes steal for the rich rewarded with five years in prison
Because of Charles Littlejohn, we know that former President Donald Trump and a whole bunch of other rich people pay next to nothing in taxes, while the rest of us frantically file tax returns and see our wages sucked away to fund the military, aid for Israel and corporate subsidies.
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March against genocide isn’t news to New York Times
It’s hard to get an independent estimate of the number of people who showed up—Palestinians and Americans of all ages and races, including Jewish Americans, arriving from all parts of the country.
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The real border crisis: Texas vs. the Constitution
The United States is on the verge of a constitutional crisis, one that enlivens the nationalist fervor of Trump America and that centers on a violent, racist closed-border policy.