This week on CounterSpin: Media are soberly reporting a congressional panel's warning against an "abrupt" or "precipitous" withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, because that might lead to "civil war" in the country. If "spinning in the grave" imagery were real, George Orwell will have screwed himself to the Earth's core by now. The rest of us can try and puzzle out what's behind the "more war will lead to peace" argument with Phyllis Bennis, director of the New Internationalism project at the Institute for Policy Studies, and co-author of Ending the US War in Afghanistan: A Primer.
Also on the show: "North Korea Using Cyber Attacks to Update Nukes" is the latest scary buzzword-packed headline from the region, representative of US media coverage that centers the entire story of Korea on Kim Jong Un's potential threat to Americans—pushing aside all of the people in North and South Korea who seek an end to the militarized tension they've lived under for more than 70 years. We hear from Hyun Lee, US national organizer for Women Cross DMZ; they're part of the coalition Korea Peace Now! that's behind a new report called Path to Peace.
Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look back at coverage of George Shultz's death.
