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Maurice Carney on Patrice Lumumba
Lumumba's assassination, judging by attention, has no lessons for US citizens or the press corps about the past, the present or the future.
David Sirota on Accountability Journalism
The public still look to news media to give them accurate, independently sourced and documented information to help them make decisions.
Paul Hudson on Airline Meltdown, Melissa Crow on Asylum Policy
There's an unarticulated underpinning to elite media conversation that as a consumer, you don't have anything called a "right."
Best of CounterSpin 2022
CounterSpin is thankful to every activist, researcher, reporter and advocate who appeared on the show, of whom this is just a small selection.
Lisa Gilbert on the January 6 Report
The Very Smart People will tell us that what we really ought to do, what the intelligent people would do, is, well, nothing.
Jen Deerinwater on Indian Child Welfare Act
Those who want to eliminate the Indian Child Welfare Act are opposed by the reality that made the Act necessary in the first place.
Media’s Crime Hype and Scapegoating Led to Crackdown on Unhoused People
The New York Times parrots the implausible suggestion that cities cracking down on unsheltered people constitutes efforts to help them.
Nelson Lichtenstein on UC Strike, Marjorie Cohn on Evangelicals’ Supreme Court Lobbying
The struggle for pay and dignity at the University of California is part of a bigger fight about whether educators are actual workers.
Milton Allimadi on Media in Africa
The African continent as a playing field for white people to test their theories, extract resources and stage proxy wars is time-tested.
Brian Mier on Lula Election Victory
It's hard not to imagine the use that a differently focused press corps might make of Brazil's change of direction.