Episode 47: American Magnanimity - Spinning Crimes Against Humanity as Benevolence

Episode 47: American Magnanimity - Spinning Crimes Against Humanity as Benevolence

Since there's been America, there have been American war crimes, and since there have been American war crimes, there's been a parallel cottage industry of hacks, shills and propagandists willing to not only apologize for, deny and downplay these crimes, but actually spin them as benevolent charity.

While Karl Rove mastered the art of taking a politician's weakness and projecting it onto one's opponent, the American political and media class has mastered the art of taking the most blatant crimes and injustices and spinning them as something actually good for the subject being oppressed, cleansed or killed. From family separation to slavery to cutting people off welfare to endless war abroad, step into the Citations Needed Hall of Funhouse Mirrors to see how the most egregious offenses to human decency get turned into evidence of innate American humanitarianism.

We are joined by friend of the show, The Intercept's Jon Schwarz.

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Episode 08: The Human Rights Concern Troll Industrial Complex

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Episode 07: BDS & the Moral Narratives of Colonization

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News Brief: Nazis, the ACLU & the Moral Limits of 'Free Speech'

We discuss the virtue of defending lofty free speech ideals in the Trump era with our guest George Ciccariello.

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Episode 06: The Media's Default Setting of White Supremacy

Episode 06: The Media's Default Setting of White Supremacy

In Episode 06 we explore how the media both consciously and subconsciously works to smear black victims, protect the police, and works overtime to ameliorate the sensibilities of white media consumers...

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News Brief: Media Helps Trump Stoke Tensions with North Korea

News Brief: Media Helps Trump Stoke Tensions with North Korea

Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson recap today's North Korea escalation.

9 Aug 201726min

Episode 05: Purging Socialists of Color From History

Episode 05: Purging Socialists of Color From History

On Episode 5, we explore the history of the media erasing socialists of color from the history books and present day discourse––a tactic that serves to both commodity and water-down black radicalism a...

2 Aug 20171h 1min

Episode 04: The Root of All Evil

Episode 04: The Root of All Evil

On Episode 04 we talk about a recent New York Times article — and the broader media habit of painting the US as benevolent democracy-seeker and Iran and other Official Enemies as cynical imperialists...

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