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Media Cyphers is a weekly radio show out of Kalamazoo, MI where we discuss local issues, analyze and critique local and national media, cover important organizing in the SW Michigan region, and call out the establishment on its B.S. Listen to us live every Tuesday from 12PM-2PM on 89.1 WIDR or online at widrfm.org.
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Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
On today's show we begin with a discussion about the transphobic articles being published by the New York Times, its mainstreaming of queerphobia, and the way the Times is repeating history by normalizing fascism while it is on the rise.
We look at the disaster in East Palestine, Ohio- a toxic cocktail of environmental deregulation and the conditions workers on the rail are dealing with. We also look at a citizenry that is equal parts resigned to the U.S. government and corporate America's lackluster performance and greedy motivations during such a disaster and outraged- doggedly seeking the truth and recompense.
Pulitzer prize winning journalist Seymour Hersch has alleged in a recent expose that the U.S. government was responsible for sabotaging Russia's Nord Stream 2 pipeline. We talk about the media blackout and compare it to other bombshell scandals in recent memory.
We look at the mass shooting at Michigan State University, and talk about the new Michigan GOP chair Kristina Karamo. As Michigan's answer to a "Marjorie Taylor Greene" type- Karamo has her own bag of conspiratorial, incendiary opinions fueled by social grievances and some degree of googling QAnon theories (no, literally, she spoke at one of their conventions). We talk about what having a far-right figure as head of the Michigan GOP will mean for the rest of the state.
4:30- 20:00 Transphobia in the New York Times
21:00- 40:00 Capitalism Derailed: The Toxic Cocktail that Caused Disaster in East Palestine, OH
40:20- 1:03:00 Seymour Hersch's Expose "America Blew Up the Nord Stream Pipeline"
1:04:00- 1:20:20 Mass Shooting at MSU
1:20:20- 1:40:00 Kristina Karamo Elected Michigan GOP Chair
1:50:00- Abortion Rights Update
SOURCES/ FURTHER READING
Ominous New Attacks on Trans Rights Remind Us…It’s Capitalism
https://www.leftvoice.org/ominous-new-attacks-on-trans-rights-remind-usits-capitalism/
Train derails in Van Buren Township; Haggerty Road back open
How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline
https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream
GoFundMe page started for MSU international student critically injured in mass shooting
Election denier Kristina Karamo chosen to lead Michigan Republican party
Defend Black History, Defend Black Lives
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/480-defend-black-history-defend-black-lives
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