Episode 133: The Art of Fake-Ending Wars
"Yemen war: Joe Biden ends support for operations in foreign policy reset," reports the BBC. "Trump: US will be out of Afghanistan by Christmas 2020," cheered Military Times. "Trump Orders Withdrawal ...
14 Apr 20211h 11min
News Brief: Big Pharma, Bill Gates Spin Against Generic Vaccines for Global South as Biden a No Show
In this public News Brief, we break down the PR campaign against activists who want intellectual property rules suspended so that poor countries can manufacture their own generic vaccines. With guest ...
10 Apr 202154min
News Brief: Austin Activists Combat Anti-Homeless Stigma in 'Prop B' Media Fight
In this public News Brief, we catch up with Austin activists Seneca Savoie and Chris Harris as they fight far right demagoguery, rich liberal NIMBY fence-sitting, and stigmatizing local media coverage...
24 Mars 202140min
Episode 132: The House Always Wins - How Every Crisis Narrative Enriches the Security and Carceral State
"It's Time for a Domestic Terrorism Law," blares a Washington Monthly headline. "Tucson Police Helping Homeless with New Outreach Program," reports Tucson, Arizona's ABC affiliate KGUN9. "Programs tha...
10 Mars 20211h 30min
News Brief: The Transactional Dog-Whistle Politics of the Term "Taxpayer"
On this News Brief, we discuss the ubiquitous weaponization of the term "taxpayer" in media and politics and how it deliberately smuggles right-wing, transactional and deeply racialized notions of peo...
3 Mars 202152min
Episode 131: The "Essential Worker" Racket - How 'COVID Hero' Discourse Is Used To Discipline Labor
"Elon Musk sent a thank-you note to Tesla's workers returning to work," Business Insider squeals. Walmart teams up with UPS to air an ad "thanking essential workers." "Jeff Bezos Just Posted an Open L...
17 Feb 20211h 2min
News Brief - Covid in Prisons: No One Cares Until Things Start to Burn
In this public News Brief we discuss how American media's general indifference to the Covid pandemic ravaging prisons and jails makes "riots" inevitable. Our guest, Patrice Daniels, is an activist cur...
10 Feb 202153min
Episode 130: 'Heartland,' 'Middle America,' and US Media's Vaguely Nostalgic, Racialized Code for White Grievance
"We need a president whose vision was shaped by the American Heartland rather than the ineffective Washington politics," declares presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. "AOC Kills Jobs Middle America ...
3 Feb 20211h 18min
