The civil liberties stans try to make sense of Katherine Maher, the new president of NPR, ex-CEO of Wikimedia, ex-Atlantic Council, ex-State Department, and current member of the Council of Foreign Relations. But as usual their liberal ideology doesn’t quite get them there. They see that Maher has a relationship with the ruling class, the state, and imperialism, and they see her coöptation of class & race consciousness while being a beneficiary of her own whiteness and class position, but they’re unable to see the relationships between the capitalist class, the state, whiteness, and imperialism. How they fail to note that NPR is state-affiliated media is beyond me.
They talk about the new FISA expansion bill (which was signed into law today) as well, which to their credit they see as related.
America This Week, April 19, 2024: “To Build a Surveillance State” (transcript). A paid subscription is ostensibly required, so: https://files.catbox.moe/e7xim5.mp3
The Grayzone on Maher previously: