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Maha Hilal on Anti-Muslim Watchlist, Dana Brown on Public Option for Pharmaceuticalsview post on FAIR.orgPlay Stop
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Also on the show: Purdue Pharma, of OxyContin fame, has filed for bankruptcy. Now, we are to believe, the company is going to turn the billions of dollars they’ve made from aggressively pushing opioids—and downplaying their harms, and paying doctors to promote them, and lobbying against Congress to regulate them—toward healing communities from their impact. OK. But what if we decided to stop trusting for-profit companies with our health? We’ll talk about a public option for pharmaceuticals with Dana Brown, director of The Next System Project. Play Stop Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at the Washington Post‘s coverage of Uber. Play Stop |
This week on CounterSpin: A District Court judge ruled that the Terrorist Screening Database, or Watchlist as it’s usually called, is unconstitutional—people don’t know when they’re on it, they can be added with zero evidence of criminal activity, and the designation follows them everywhere. What the judge didn’t say was that the whole idea of the watchlist, created in a context of anti-Islamic bias and ignorance, is untenable, and that the whole frame of Muslims vs. national security needs to be upended. We’ll talk about the assuredly positive ruling—and its limits—with Maha Hilal, co-director of the 