Gun Control Politics, Israeli 'Retaliation,' Disguising Inequality...

Weekly Alert: February 23, 2018 Here are the stories FAIR has been working on this week. Please help us spread the word by forwarding this email to friends and by sharing our stories on social media. The Radical Dishonesty of David Brooks Policy Choices, Not ‘the Market,’ Produce a ‘Small Number of Very Wealthy People’ Painting an Israeli Attack on Syria as Israeli ‘Retaliation’ Next on NPR: Some Think You Should Put Out Fire With Gasoline WSJ’s Epic Distortion of Colombian and Venezuelan Refugees This week's episode of FAIR's radio show CounterSpin: Lee Drutman on Gun Control Politics, Pat Elder on School Militarization Newly posted CounterSpin transcripts: ‘The United States Is Driving a Wedge Between the Two Koreas’ ‘This Is a Uniquely American Crisis’ EXCERPT: "..... between 1996 and 2002, Purdue Pharma funded more than 20,000 pain-related education programs, almost ten a day, seven days a week. During that time,  Purdue conducted more than 40 national pain-management training conferences, in vacation spots like Boca Raton and Scottsdale, paying for more than 5,000 physicians to attend.  And they also helped create and fund specialty centers, academies for pain sciences, that would take doctors and give them all types of materials and prescribing guidelines to encourage the use of OxyContin and other opioids. And for certain areas of the country, they even created specialized regional pain foundations that would market the drug. So the Appalachian Pain Foundation, based in West Virginia, they were well-funded by Purdue Pharma, and they arranged meetings between doctors and local reporters......"   FAIR’s ad-free, content-rich site is supported by contributions from our loyal band of media activists.  Please donate today!   FAIR's Website

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