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Tainted water from Flint, Michigan

Flint, Michigan

This week on CounterSpin: Search corporate news media for recent stories on the water crisis ([link removed]) in Flint, Michigan—in which some of the city's overwhelmingly Black residents were paying upwards of $300 a month ([link removed]) for water they couldn't drink, based on an infrastructure decision on the water's source that their elected officials had no say in ([link removed]) —and you'll find a few stories on how yes, lead-leaching pipes endangered people's health...but there's been a multi-million dollar settlement, and a presidential commitment to address lead in water, so maybe it's all over but the shouting.

CNN hosted ([link removed]) a Republican Michigan congressmember who explained that Flint was under an unelected austerity-minded emergency manager because their "city had essentially collapsed. They had no strong functioning government and the state had to step in and there was an error in shifting water sources." That sounds lamentable, but not really blameworthy. So how do you square that "sorry but let's move forward" line with the information ([link removed]) that investigators looking into the crisis found that the cell phones of key health officials and other players, like then-Gov. Rick Snyder's press secretary, had been wiped of messages for the key period?

While corporate media have largely let Flint go, the story isn't over, nor has justice been served. We'll hear from a reporter still on the case: Jordan Chariton, from independent news network Status Coup News ([link removed]) .

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Patrice Lumumba

Patrice Lumumba

Also on the show: You don't need to put your ear to the ground to hear US news media drumbeats for war ([link removed]) of some sort with official enemies China ([link removed]) and/or Russia ([link removed]) . With China, part of what we're being told to two-minute hate is their involvement on the African continent, where we're to understand they are nefariously trapping countries in debt ([link removed]) —unlike the US involvement in the region, which has been about bringing joy and love and hope.

Just because a playbook is old doesn't mean it won't be used again and again. The vision relies on amnesia and ignorance of what the US has done and is doing in Sub-Saharan Africa—a topic that, if news media wanted to explore it, they had a great chance this past week, with the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the first elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Why was Lumumba killed? And what's the living legacy of that undercovered murder? We'll hear from Maurice Carney, co-founder and executive director of the group Friends of the Congo ([link removed]) .

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