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FAIR, 1 month ago to random

Transcript of CounterSpin's interview with Sally Dworak-Fisher on app-based workers:

"What do we as a society want in terms of our policies? Do we want just any business? Don’t we have minimum wage laws for a reason? If you can’t make it work while still paying a living wage, then consumers aren’t in the business of subsidizing that. I’m sorry, but not every business is entitled to run on the lowest wage possible."

https://fair.org/home/this-is-a-choice-companies-are-making-to-raise-fees/

FAIR, 1 month ago to random

"If you’re on a campus, that means that it is sometimes harder to speak out, especially because we’re seeing students getting suspended, and when they get suspended, they get banned from campus, they get evicted from their student housing, sometimes they lose access to healthcare. And, basically, the schools control a lot more of students’ lives than any institution does for adults in the workforce, for example."

https://fair.org/home/this-weaponization-is-meant-to-shift-focus-away-from-gaza/

FAIR, 1 month ago to random

Headlines relating to Palestine have predominantly focused on protests happening at university campuses across the country—an important story, but not one that ought to drown out coverage of the atrocities students are protesting against.

https://fair.org/home/news-of-mass-graves-isnt-much-news-to-us-outlets/

FAIR, 1 month ago to random

There is a long list of US college campuses where encampments and other forms of protest are going on, in efforts to get college administrations to divest their deep and powerful resources from weapons manufacturers and other ways and means of enabling Israel’s war on Palestinians – assaults that have killed some 34,000 people, just since the Hamas attack of October 7.

https://fair.org/home/sam-on-students-for-justice-in-palestine-sally-dworak-fisher-on-delivery-workers/

FAIR, 1 month ago to random

The prospective TikTok ban we wrote about last month has now been signed into law.

https://fair.org/home/house-votes-against-tiktok-and-for-more-cold-war/

FAIR, 1 month ago to random

In a media milieu in which it’s more acceptable to support reactionaries in power than the people whose lives they attempt to destroy, the real “heretics” prove not to be those issuing critiques from the right, but from the left.

https://fair.org/home/right-wing-critiques-miscast-npr-nyt-as-lefty-bastions/

FAIR, 1 month ago to random

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FAIR, 1 month ago to random

Palestinian journalists call for a boycott of the April 27 White House correspondents' dinner in light of "the Biden administration’s ongoing complicity in the systematic slaughter and persecution of journalists in Gaza."

https://medium.com/@gazajournalists/appeal-boycott-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner-stand-with-your-colleagues-in-gaza-fac979195de6

FAIR, 1 month ago to random

CounterSpin's interview with Dave Lindorff:

"As soon as the war ended, the US started, in the Manhattan Project and then later the Atomic Energy Commission, working feverishly to figure out a way to mass produce atomic bombs. And by ’48, they were producing them at a hundred a month. And why were they doing that, when they thought that there’d been no spies in the project, and that the Soviet Union would not get an atomic bomb for at least eight or ten years?"

https://fair.org/home/a-monopoly-on-the-bomb-would-be-a-catastrophe-for-the-world/

FAIR, 1 month ago to random

Universities are not simply clamping down on free speech because the administrators dislike this particular speech, or out of fear that pro-Palestine demonstrations or vocal faculty members could scare donors from writing big checks. This is a result of state actors—congressional Republicans, in particular—who are using their committee power and sycophants in the media to demand more firings, more suspensions, more censorship.

https://fair.org/home/the-mccarthyist-attack-on-gaza-protests-threatens-free-thought-for-all/

FAIR, 1 month ago to random

"So at the moment when were were managing to finally hold the main leaders of this attempted coup accountable, Elon Musk and Michael Shellenberger came onto the scene to attack the institutions that are prosecuting them, to usurp their power so they can’t convict them anymore."

https://fair.org/home/i-knew-they-had-fabricated-a-false-narrative/

FAIR, 1 month ago to random

Among the terms the #NYTimes memo tells reporters to avoid: “Palestine” (“except in very rare cases”), “occupied territories” (say “Gaza, the West Bank, etc.”) and “refugee camps” (“refer to them as neighborhoods, or areas”). The memo discourages the use of the terms “genocide” (“We should…set a high bar for allowing others to use it as an accusation”) and “ethnic cleansing” (“another historically charged term”).

https://fair.org/home/action-alert-nyts-war-on-words-avoid-palestine-genocide-ethnic-cleansing/

FAIR, 1 month ago to random

"The main problem in Haiti is the international community, the so-called Core Group, US foreign policy implementing their will in Haiti, and not allowing for Haitian society to develop a government and a civil society that serves their interest and their needs. The constant interventions, starting with the MINUSTAH intervention in 2004 that lasted into 2017, which pretty much laid the ground for the crisis we have in Haiti today."

https://fair.org/home/interventions-laid-the-groundwork-for-the-crisis-in-haiti-today/

FAIR, 2 months ago to random

You can learn something about Haiti's current crisis, and the US view of it, from the news media.

What you won't learn about are the roots of the crisis -- much less how they can be traced back to the US.

https://fair.org/home/chris-bernadel-on-haiti/

FAIR, 2 months ago to random

Musk isn’t simply displaying hypocrisy when he pretends to fight for free speech in Brazil while Twitter censors speech when it comes to India and Turkey. If anything, he is being consistent in his quest to use his corporate wealth to alter the political landscape against liberal democracy and toward a dark, despotic future.

https://fair.org/home/musk-is-consistent-in-his-opposition-to-internet-democracy/

FAIR, 2 months ago to random

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FAIR, 2 months ago to random

CounterSpin interview with Phyllis Bennis on the Gaza ceasefire resolution:

With all the language about criticisms of Netanyahu, and the massive amount of press about how there's this big divide between Biden and Netanyahu, between the US and Israel, that's true only on the level of talking. On the level of acting, the US hasn't changed a thing. $4 billion a year as a starting point of military aid; all the additional weapons that Israel wants, Israel gets.

https://fair.org/home/this-is-about-what-has-to-happen-to-stop-this-genocide/

FAIR, 2 months ago to random

The Truth vs. Alex Jones depicts Jones’ transformation from an Austin, Texas–based public access weirdo into a powerful right-wing influencer who profited handsomely off lies.

https://fair.org/home/new-doc-traces-alex-jones-footprints-on-our-post-truth-landscape/

FAIR, 2 months ago to random

CBP “encounters” are not a tally of how many people were able to enter the country without authorization; it’s a count of how many times people were stopped at the border by CBP agents. Many of these people had every right to seek entry, and a great number were turned away. Some of them were stopped more than once, and therefore were counted multiple times.

https://fair.org/home/fox-news-border-stats-distort-immigration-reality/

FAIR, 2 months ago to random

What should we take from the US deciding not to strike down the most recent UN resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, but then getting out in front to say: “It’s a non-binding resolution. So, there’s no impact at all on Israel and Israel’s ability to continue to go after Hamas”?

And what do UN resolutions generally “mean,” if politicians and news media interpret them variously – as though international law is, sometimes, just a suggestion?

https://fair.org/home/phyllis-bennis-on-gaza-ceasefire-resolution-robert-weissman-on-boeing-scandal/

FAIR, 2 months ago to random

Ronna McDaniel, hand-picked by Trump to lead the RNC after his 2016 election, and ousted at his behest earlier this month , supported Trump’s false 2020 election claims and frequently attacked the legitimacy of the press corps, including NBC and MSNBC journalists.

Those kinds of anti-democracy, anti-journalism positions apparently didn’t strike NBC leadership as any sort of obstacle to their own mission.

https://fair.org/home/in-unhiring-ronna-mcdaniel-nbc-made-the-right-move-for-the-wrong-reason/

FAIR, 2 months ago to random

It’s good news that a sensible judge can protect free speech. But how long can that last against one of the world’s richest people, who has made it clear he has an agenda to silence critics, and the collaboration of powerful officials?

https://fair.org/home/free-speech-fan-elon-musk-enlists-state-allies-to-silence-critics/

FAIR, 2 months ago to random

Transcript of CounterSpin's interview with Evlondo Cooper on climate coverage:

"When these folks are left out of the conversation, you're missing important context about how climate change is impacting them, in many cases, first and worse. And you're missing important context about the solutions that these communities are trying to employ to deal with it."

https://fair.org/home/in-even-the-best-coverage-there-is-no-accountability-for-the-fossil-fuel-industry/

FAIR, 2 months ago to random

Transcript on CounterSpin's interview with Rick Goldsmith on his film Stripped for Parts:

"The key phrase here is 'distressed asset investing,' which is maybe a kind of Wall Streetish term. But what it means is they could buy something on the cheap that was a failing business, and then figure out what their assets were. And like a used car that is basically junk, they could strip it for parts."

https://fair.org/home/this-decline-in-local-journalism-was-noticed-first-by-journalists-themselves/

FAIR, 2 months ago to random

For anyone who knows about the pro-Israel lobby’s influence over US elections, or the history of the US toppling democratically elected leaders in Chile, Guatemala, Iran and elsewhere, Murdoch paper objections to Chuck Schumer's remarks on Netanyahu came off as both ignorant and hypocritical.

https://fair.org/home/what-the-chuck-murdoch-defends-bibi-from-senate-leader/