This week on CounterSpin: US news media are full of armchair generals who talk about weapons of war like they’re Hot Wheels, and have lots of thoughts about how “we coulda got ’em” here and “we shoulda got ’em” there. The price of admission to elite media debate is...
Janine Jackson: “An Abrupt US Withdrawal From Afghanistan Undermines the Fragile Peace” was the headline on a Washington Post op-ed back in November, from the co-chairs of the Afghanistan Study Group. It fit nicely with the Post’s own editorial view, expressed in...
This week on CounterSpin: Media are soberly reporting a congressional panel’s warning against an “abrupt” or “precipitous” withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, because that might lead to “civil war” in the country. If “spinning in the grave” imagery were real,...
This week on CounterSpin: One of many disfiguring effects of corporate news media is the ingrained presumption that the United States, whatever its leadership, has the right, nay the duty, to intervene—with violence, with corruption, it doesn’t matter—in other,...
After Donald Trump’s appearance at a conference of police chiefs, a wire reporter wrote, presumably with a straight face: “Trump concluded his speech by signing an executive order creating a commission to study the root causes of crime and implement the best ideas...
This week on CounterSpin: A former US diplomat to Cuba, Wayne Smith, wrote once that Cuba “seems to have the same effect on American administrations that the full moon once had on werewolves.” It comes to mind as you hear of National Security Advisor John Bolton...
