Phyllis Bennis on Foreign Policy Visions

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo campaigning for Donald Trump from the US embassy in Jerusalem.

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, sovereign countries, to suit its own interests...by which is meant the interests of the powerful, and not the vast majority. If the US wants it, it's "good," and you should want it too. It's tautological and obscene; yet accepting it, internalizing it—and dismissing or demonizing any who don't agree—is the price of admission to Serious Political Conversation in the so-called mainstream press. Which is why talking around their narrative is more important every day. We'll have a differently premised conversation about US foreign policy with Phyllis Bennis, author and director of the New Internationalism project at the Institute for Policy Studies.

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Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look back at press coverage of the Republican National Convention, California's incarcerated firefighters and Washington Post hypocrisy.

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