This week on CounterSpin: international trade is on the agenda in Washington, with the White House pushing for Congress to vote on the CentralAmerican Free Trade Agreement, or CAFTA. The trade pact is getting next to no mainstream media attention, even though the political fight over it is heating up. We’ll talk to Karen Hansen-Kuhn … Continued
John Bolton Suffers Setback In Bid to Become UN Ambassador In a rare move, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has sent the nomination of John Bolton as UN ambassador to the full Senate without an endorsement. War Resister Pablo Paredes Wins Surprise Victory: Military Judges Orders No Jail Time For Refusing Deployment Orders Paredes was … Continued
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Media representation of Hip Hop: Continuing coverage of the recent Feminism and Hip Hop Conference in Chicago.
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Continuing coverage of the recent Feminism and Hip Hop Conference in Chicago.
A former high-level DEA agent talks about government drug trafficking and the Oliver North connection; and we’ll be joined by the author of Drug War: Covert Money, Power and Policy, an encyclopedia on the history of government drug involvement; and the Knight Report.
Independent of London reporter Patrick Cockburn reports from Baghdad on the killing of 75 Iraqis by US forces at the Syrian border; plus, a free-wheeling discussion with award-winning investigative reporter Robert Parry on CIA-linked drug trafficking and the cover-up of the October Surprise; and the Knight Report.
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Davey D speaks with musician and activist Michael Franti about a fair and just media; Continuing coverage of the recent Feminism and Hip Hop Conference
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Join us for Full Circle, this Friday, May 6th for the second part of our labor discussion. We will address local labor issues as well as workers’ situations in China and Nicaragua. Other issues covered include globalization, day laborers, and tenant rights. We will also share a commentary and a poem in honor of Mother’s … Continued
On their Morning Edition show, NPR censors the killing of two Palestinian kids, we’ll have a follow-up report on the killings and look at the recent arrests of Pentagon officials releasing secret documents to American-Israeli lobby group AIPAC; also, the US military continues their torture cover-up with the dismissal of charges against Lynndie England; a … Continued
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The U.S. government has put a 1 million dollar hit on Assata Shakur; Continuing coverage of the recent Feminism and Hip Hop Conference in Chicago.
