CounterSpin

Latest Episodes
Ari Berman on Voting Rights Erasure
Voting: Everyone gets a voice; thats what makes us different, special and better. Is that ideal being subverted? Or have we misunderstood it all along?
Raeghn Draper on Tipped Workers, Pete Tucker on DC Stadium
Elite news media transmit the weird worldview that its appropriate to force tipped workers to please and appease patrons in order to survive.
‘The Fact That It’s Happening Shouldn’t Be a Surprise’: CounterSpin interview with Ari Paul on genocide in Gaza
"I think it's a success of Israel's control of the narrative that sometimes it's really not well understood that the occupation is central to all this."
‘Criminalizing Homelessness Only Perpetuates It’: CounterSpin interview with Scout Katovich on criminalizing poverty
"The pitting against each other of people who lack housing and people who have housing is so insidious and counterproductive."
Ari Paul on Genocide in Gaza, Scout Katovich on Criminalizing Poverty
Corporate media are now gesturing toward engaging questions of Israeli war crimes against Palestinians. But what does that amount to at this late date?
Thom Hartmann on Epstein & MAGA, Han Shan (2009) on Ken Saro-Wiwa
To tell this as a tale about two uniquely bad men is a terrible disservice to a story of the systemic criminal victimization of women.
Iman Abid on the Economy of Genocide, Victor Pickard on Paramount Settlement
The UN's Albanese has long opposed Israels genocide of Palestiniansbut what broke US warmongers was her naming corporations profiting from that genocide.
Silky Shah on Mass Deportation
Along with many other hate-driven harms, the budget bill puts Stephen Millers cruel and bizarre mass deportation plan on steroids.
Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon on Mamdani and the Democrats
Elite news media are Trojan-horsing their hatred for any ideas that threaten their ill-gotten gains, via very deep concerns about Zohran Mamdani as a person.
Adam Johnson on Media in War Mode
US corporate media in war mode are a force to reckon with. We do some reckoning with media analyst Adam Johnson.