CounterSpin

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Latest Episodes

Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib Lawsuit, Dave Lindorff on Spy for No Country
April 19, 2024

The long-fought effort to get legal acknowledgement of the abuse of Iraqi detainees in the Iraq War is coming to a federal court in Virginia.

Chris Bernadel on Haiti
April 12, 2024

What needs to change in Haiti includes Western media presentations that ignore or erase even recent history.

Rakeen Mabud on Greedflation, Rachel K. Jones on Mifepristone
April 05, 2024

Corporate profit margins are at a level not seen since the 1950s, as abject greed was whistled past by the press corps.

Phyllis Bennis on Gaza Ceasefire Resolution, Robert Weissman on Boeing Scandal
March 29, 2024

A senior UN human rights official says there is a "plausible" case that Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, a war crime.

Evlondo Cooper on Climate Coverage, Rick Goldsmith on Stripped for Parts
March 22, 2024

Elite media still cant quite connect images of floods or fires to the triumphant shareholder meetings of the fossil fuel companies.

Gay Gordon-Byrne on Right to Repair, Suyapa Portillo Villeda on Honduran Ex-President Conviction
March 15, 2024

Industry still argues that that cellphone isn't really "yours," in the sense that you can't fix it if it breaks.

Ian Millhiser on Supreme Court Trump Protection, Alfredo Lopez on Radical Elders
March 08, 2024

Donald Trump could declare himself above the lawand thats just been enabled by a recent Supreme Court ruling.

Victor Pickard on the Crisis of Journalism
March 01, 2024

If we dont ask different questions about what we need from journalism, we will arrive at the same old unsatisfactory responses.

Gregory Shupak and Trita Parsi on Gaza Assault
February 23, 2024

As the US falls more out of step with the world, many in the US press seem divorced from the idea of US responsibility.

Ariel Adelman on Disability Civil Rights
February 16, 2024

Acheson v. Laufer is another example of weaponizing the courts to dismantle labor protections, housing rights and health guidelines.