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Protecting Pfizer’s and Microsoft’s Patents in China Is Not ‘Our’ Concern

To Catherine Rampell (Washington Post, 5/21/18), the idea that the US’s $337 billion trade deficit with China is problematic is a “fairy tale.” It’s rare that you get a more explicitly classist piece...

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Soaring Cost of Clues Leaves Thomas Friedman Apparently Unable to Buy One

Thomas Friedman’s understanding of economics seems stuck in the “off” position (New York Times, 6/26/18). In a period of record-low productivity growth, Thomas Friedman (6/26/18) tells us the robots...

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Can Truth Survive Trump? WaPo Fails to Ask How Well Truth Was Doing to Begin...

The Washington Post (7/13/18) fails to examine corporate media’s contribution to declining standards of truth. Carlos Lozada, the nonfiction book critic for the Washington Post, promised “an honest...

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Dean Baker on Trump’s Trade War, Leo Fitzpatrick on Wireless Merger

PlayStop pop out X MP3 Link (image: Pixabay) This week on CounterSpin: Coverage of Donald Trump’s trade war on China has led to some odd writing, as when the Washington Post reported, “Dozens of US...

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‘It Makes a Hell of a Lot More Sense to Negotiate Sharing Technology, Rather...

Janine Jackson interviewed Dean Baker about Trump’s trade war with China for the May 24, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. PlayStop pop out X MP3 Link Janine Jackson:...

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Corporate Media Take the Trump Line on Trade

The New York Times (8/10/19) takes a Trumpian approach to trade. The New York Times (8/10/19) ran an article this month with a headline saying that the 2020 Democratic presidential contenders faced a...

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ABC Debate Lowlights

Climate: ‘Let’s See If We Can Go Really Fast’ After CNN‘s remarkably substantive and thoughtful town hall on the climate crisis (9/4/19), we wrote that the following debates now had a solid foundation...

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Moving Jobs to Mexico Was a Feature, Not a Bug, of NAFTA

The Washington Post (11/21/19) tells readers that “NAFTA was meant to expand trade…but it also proved disruptive in terms of…relocating businesses and jobs. The Washington Post (11/21/19) gave readers...

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Vijay Prashad on India Demonstrations, Manuel Perez-Rocha on NAFTA 2.0

PlayStop pop out X MP3 Link (image: VOA) This week on CounterSpin: Millions of Indians—maybe a quarter of a billion—have taken to the streets in recent weeks. The far-right Modi government’s...

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‘The Continuation of This Neocolonial System Is Not Being Dismantled’ -...

Janine Jackson interviewed Manuel Pérez-Rocha about NAFTA 2.0 for the January 24, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. PlayStop pop out X MP3 Link NPR (1/16/20) Janine...

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