Marjorie Cohn on Afghanistan’s Unending War, Amit Narang on Deregulation & Corporate America

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This week on CounterSpin: Just after September 11, 2001, Time magazine published a special issue that ended with the words of Lance Morrow. “A day cannot live in infamy without the nourishment of rage,” Morrow wrote; “let’s have rage.” Calling for America to “explore the rich reciprocal possibilities of the fatwa,” Morrow called explicitly for “hatred,” and “a policy of focused brutality.”

New Yorkers who were here remember vigils, hugs from strangers and signs all over the streets reading, “Our grief is not a cry for war.” But war is what came, to the delight of media’s Morrows—first to Afghanistan, which the US invaded on October 7, 2001, and never left. We’ll talk about that ongoing legacy of September 11, 2001, with Marjorie Cohn, professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and author of, most recently, Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral and Geopolitical Issues. 

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Also on the show: A series of news stories suggest that corporations are lining up to defy the Trump White House’s deregulatory policies. It’s true, some corporations might resist some moves for some reasons, but it’s a long way from there to companies’ boldly invoking Trump’s wrath in their zeal to fight climate disruption. We’ll talk about the media oversell and the real deal with Amit Narang, regulatory policy advocate at Public Citizen.

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