WZBC 90.3 FM Newton

Ben Jealous: December Deadline Looms for Senate Democrats to Pass Critical Voting Rights Legislation; Morris Pearl: U.S. Tax Code Must be Rewritten to Compel America’s Wealthiest Pay Their Fair Share; Matt Nelson: California Proposes New Rule Banning New Oil Wells Within 3,200 Feet of Homes and Schools; Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary.

This week on CounterSpin, two archival interviews: As the year nears its end, it’s hard not to think back to how it started—with the violent assault on the Capitol by a crowd intent on preventing the declaration of Joe Biden as president. We spoke with organizer and strategist Dorothee Benz the next day about the import of the events of January 6. Also on the show: While response to the insurrection came slowly, states have been cracking down on peaceful protests. We talked about that worrying trend with the ACLU’s Vera Eidelman around the Fourth of July.

False solutions include: carbon pricing, bioenergy, natural gas, hydrogen, landfill gas, waste incineration, nuclear power hydroelectricity, geoengineering, carbon capture AND even aspects of nature based solutions and renewable energy. In this last and fourth program on Hoodwinked in the Hothouse you will hear about false solutions proposed not by fossil fuel interests but even by environmental organizations and funders and the so-called Big Green. Also there are questions asked about current policies such as Build Back Better and the 30 by 30 campaigns of the Biden administration.

From Austria, Dr. Annett Bartsch brings us Arctic permafrost risk. Human settlement in the far north is unsustainable without fossil fuels. Heating at the Poles will determine the fate of this life on Earth. The first and largest human impact on the planet is threatening human settlements, roads, and pipelines in the far north, as the ground thaws. Forests fall over. Buildings and roads crack open. Oil and gas lines break, even as our energy crisis develops.

[For today's webinar on Palestinians' difficulty getting cancer care: https://act.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/a/hac-webinar-cancer-care .] ... The Israeli human rights group, B’Tselem, conducted an investigation and issued a report documenting that Israeli is an apartheid state by international legal standards. This lies at the base of a wide array of Israeli policies, advancing and perpetuating the supremacy of one group – Jews – over another – Palestinians. Our feature this week is a forum on this courageous report, which took place in Cork, Ireland. It is moderated by the Chair of the Cork County anti-Apartheid Campaign, Martin Shield, and features Hagai El Hag, Executive Director of B’Tselem the Israeli human rights organization which issued the report, and Ronnie Kasreal, former South African Minister and anti-apartheid activist.

Her book discusses alliances between corporate executive officers, politicians, lobbyists and bankers in disregard for office and factory workers.

McCoy is the author of a tremendous new book called To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change. He also holds the Harrington Chair in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After earning his Ph.D. in Southeast Asian history at Yale in 1977, his writing has focused on Philippine political history, the history of modern empires, and the covert netherworld of illicit drugs, syndicate crime, and state security. His first book, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia (1972), sparked controversy over the CIA’s attempt to block its publication. His book A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War on Terror (2006) provided the historical dimension for the Oscar-winning documentary feature, Taxi to the Darkside.