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...
View ArticleSoaring 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...
View ArticleCan 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...
View ArticleDean 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...
View Article‘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:...
View ArticleCorporate 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...
View ArticleABC 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...
View ArticleMoving 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...
View ArticleVijay 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...
View Article‘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...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....