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PBS NewsHour: Trump on defensive as MAGA base questions his Epstein connections and investigation
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This week on CounterSpin: The Trump administration is funding a genocide in Gaza—never mind headlines ([link removed]) like July 24’s Washington Post: “Mass Starvation Stalks Gaza as Deaths From Hunger Rise.” (No, it’s actual human beings stalking Gaza, who could right now choose to act differently.)
The White House is deploying masked men to disappear people out of job sites ([link removed]) and courtrooms ([link removed] New York to California%2C ICE agents have arrested immigrants,by showing up to court.) , and offering them salaries orders of magnitude ([link removed]) more than those paid teachers or nurses. They’re daylight-robbing hard-earned benefits ([link removed]) from everyone, with the most vulnerable first
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None of this, while we acknowledge individual regretters, has radically shaken the MAGA base. But now that group, we’re told, may be fracturing ([link removed]) , around the Epstein files.
To tell this as a tale about two uniquely bad men, one of whom mysteriously died in prison while the other mysteriously became president, is a terrible disservice to a story of thinly veiled institutional, professional machinery employed in the systemic criminal victimization of women. But how can we expect elite news media to tell that story when they’re busy wasting ink on Trump denials as though they were something other than nonsense?
There’s a lot going on here; we’ll talk about just some of it with Thom Hartmann, radio host ([link removed]) and author of, most recently, The Last American President ([link removed]) : A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party and a World on the Brink.
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Ken Saro-Wiwa
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Also on the show: Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has just announced a posthumous pardon ([link removed]) for Nigerian writer, teacher and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was hanged in November 1995, along with eight of his comrades in the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People. Their crime was nonviolent protest against the exploitation of their land and their people by oil industry giant Royal Dutch Shell. CounterSpin covered it at the time—and then in 2009, we caught up on still-ongoing efforts to bring some measure of accountability for those killings, and Shell’s unceasing human rights and environmental violations, with Han Shan, working with what was then called the ShellGuilty campaign ([link removed]) , a coalitional effort from Oil Change International, Friends of the Earth and Platform/Remember Saro-Wiwa
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In light of this pardon, which is being acknowledged as necessary but insufficient, we’re going to hear that conversation ([link removed]) with Han Shan again this week.
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