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Episode 134: The 80-Year PR Campaign that Killed Universal Healthcare
Almost every wealthy country in the world has some type of universal healthcare system--except for the United States. With over 170 million of its ci…
4 years, 11 months ago
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…
4 years, 11 months ago
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 …
4 years, 11 months ago
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 f…
5 years ago
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 …
5 years ago
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…
5 years, 1 month ago
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 e…
5 years, 1 month ago
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" inevita…
5 years, 1 month ago
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 candid…
5 years, 2 months ago
News Brief: Finance Media's GameStop Meltdown and the Thin Moral Pretexts of Wall Street's Game Rigging
In this News Brief we break down L'Affaire GameStop and what lessons can be gleaned from about psychological gamesmanship of the stock market and fin…
5 years, 2 months ago