Ep. 28: GPI Strikes Again, Pfizer Jacks Up COVID-19 Vaccine Price, and More

We start with a short conversation about the documents recovered from Mar-a-Lago and how the media covers stories like it- leaning into spycraft and intrigue while leaving the obvious issues of class conflict and power brokering on the table.

 

Graphic Packaging strikes again- this time leaking thousands of gallons of unknown contaminants into the Kalamazoo River.

 

Local pharmaceutical company Pfizer is jacking up the price of their COVID-19 vaccine, strengthening disparities of vaccine access between the rich and the poor and choosing profit over public health.

 

In South Bend, reactionaries from religious extremist groups and members of the Proud Boys targeted an all-ages drag show over the weekend. We talk about how the community came out to defend the show and successfully repelled the fascists from disrupting it.

 

In brief, a recent piece on Fox News saw Republicans like Senate Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy praising the policies of recently ousted UK Prime Minister Liz Truss. We look at how the Republicans and Democrats see those types of austerity measures- and the (lack of) coherent political strategy to align against it.

 

We close out with a peculiar story about rapper Killer Mike. After making some insightful criticisms and suggestions about the gubernatorial race in Georgia, an op-ed writer was quick to call Killer Mike "more dangerous than Kanye West" (in reference to West's recent bigoted statements). We analyze it among a larger pattern of corporate media misinformation that seeks to equate progressives with the rising threat of fascism.

01:00- 13:45 The Trump Files

13:45- 32:00  GPI Strikes Again- Leaks Contaminants Into Kzoo River

32:20- 50:20 Pfizer Jacks Up Price of COVID-19 Vaccine

50:45- 1:03:00 South Bend Residents Defends Drag Show Against Right-Wing Extremists

1:03:10- 1:09:35  The Capitalist Agenda: Can't Truss It

1:10:00- 1:36:00 Lie, Cheat, Steal, Kill, Win: Smearing Progressives in the Corporate Media

 

SOURCES

‘It’s one thing after another’ as paper mill waste spills into Kalamazoo River

https://www.mlive.com/news/2022/10/its-one-thing-after-another-as-paper-mill-waste-spills-into-kalamazoo-river.html

 

'Daylight Robbery': Pfizer Condemned for Hiking US Covid Vaccine Price by 10,000% Above Cost

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/21/daylight-robbery-pfizer-condemned-hiking-us-covid-vaccine-price-10000-above-cost

 

Protests erupt outside all-age drag show put on by LGBTQ Center

https://www.abc57.com/news/protests-erupt-outside-all-age-drag-show-put-on-by-lgbtq-center