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Sumedha Pal

    • HOST: Eric Draitser
    • GUEST: Sumedha Pal
    • TOPICS: How coronavirus is impacting India.

Canceling the Cancel Culture: Enriching Discourse or Dumbing it Down?

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To what extent do we as a society have a responsibility to entertain absurd claims, and how do we benefit from engaging in debates with bad-faith actors whose end goal is to obscure basic facts and truths? In such situations, engaging in extended debates doesn’t enrich discourse – it makes people dumber by popularizing misinformation and ignorance. And that’s exactly the point. More

Boris Johnson Should not be Making New Global Enemies When His Country is in a Shambles

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Antagonising China may not be wise, particularly as it’s clear that dysfunctional leaders like Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro could not control an outbreak of acne. More

Lift From the Bottom? Yes.

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Some time ago, Rev. William Barber II, leader of the Poor People’s Campaign, made a stunning point about the minimum wage: it has taken 400 years for it to go from $0/hour to $7.25/hour. Op Ed columnist Thomas Edsall recently wondered in the New York Times, Why Do We Pay So Many People So Little Money? More

Exclusively in the New Print Issue of CounterPunch

 

400 YEARS IN 8 MINUTES

Jeffrey St. Clair on the police state in Black America; Laura Carlsen on How COVID-19 is Advancing Trump’s White Supremacy Agenda; TJ Coles on How Big Pharma Has Exploited the Crisis; Dan Glazebrook on the Malthusian Responses to the Pandemic; Stan Cox on the Contradictions of the Green New Deal; Jennifer Matsui on the Coming Medical Surveillance State; Daniel Raventos and Julie Wark on the Camps of Lesbos; Maximilian Werner on the West’s War on Predators; Chris Floyd on Dylan’s Stunning Reemergence; Pete Dolack on the New Misery Index; Lee Ballinger on the Criminalization of Rap Music; John Davis on the Disruptive Force of COVID-19; and John LaForge on What Juries Aren’t Permitted to Hear About Nuclear Weapons.

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The Struggle for Police-Free Schools and an Equitable, Safe Re-Opening

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