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This week on CounterSpin: More than 200 Iraqi civilians killed by a US airstrike in Mosul. But while media express concern, the idea that the deaths were a lamentable part of a nevertheless valiant effort to liberate the city from terrorists’ grip is not being questioned. We will question it with Raed Jarrar, government relations manager at the American Friends Service Committee.
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Also on the show: Your internet might never explode like a poorly wired toaster, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t benefit from consumer-driven regulation. If you didn’t see it that way already, it became very clear this week, as the Senate and then the House voted to allow service providers like AT&T to collect your personal information—medical records, browsing history—and sell it to the highest bidder. How did this happen, and what can we do about it? We’ll talk about online privacy with Evan Greer, campaign director at Fight for the Future.
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And a quick look back at recent press: looking for fact-based conservative journalism in all the wrong places.
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This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News with permission from FAIR.