Newsletter 7.10.18
Added 2018-07-10 23:07:01 +0000 UTCHi all, here's this week's newsletter. Hope you enjoy!
Adam, Florence, and Nima
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California County Law Enforcement Puts Kids On Probation For Bad Grades - Carimah Townes - The Appeal (7/10/18)
America’s most abundant resource––punitive, moralizing asshole law and order types––strike again.
How Corporations Plan To Use Janus To Turn Workers Against Their Own Unions In These Times - Chris Brooks, In These Times (July 2018)
Corporate forces are licking their chops after Janus, looking to pick apart workers rights state by state, union by union.
The New York Times Didn't Waste Any Time Publishing the Worst Brett Kavanaugh Take - Paul Blest, Splinter News (7/10/18)
Why do we do this to ourselves?
Despite Anonymous Carping, US–North Korea Talks Continue - Tim Shorrock, The Nation (7/3/18)
Despite a series of anonymous leaks from US intelligence services, South Korean-led peace efforts continue.
NYT Sees ‘Dystopia’ in Chinese Surveillance—Which Looks a Lot Like US Surveillance - Jim Naureckas FAIR (7/9/18)
Add to FAIR’s long list of “Them Not Us” articles where US media freaks out over something other countries do without really taking stock of how much the very same thing happens stateside.
MSNBC Does Not Merely Permit Fabrications Against Democratic Party Critics. It Encourages and Rewards Them. - Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept (7/10/18)
It can seem navel-gazy at times, but the fact that MSNBC employes pathological liars should matter.
Where are the Korean voices? John Burton, The Korea Times (7/9/18)
Korea Times column cites Adam’s analysis of Korea coverage in the United States. Spoiler alert: it’s one-sided and hawkish.
Papers Insist ‘We Need’ Secret Gang Databases—Just Like We ‘Needed’ Stop & Frisk Josmar Trujillo, FAIR (6/28/18)
Friend of the show Josmar Trujillo shows how centrist and liberal media outlets carry water for the latest iteration of racist policing––secret gang databases.
