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Chip Gibbons on Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale
Daniel Hale stands convicted of revealing things the US government didn't want known about its drone warfare programs—the ones elite media have often presented as precise in separating "bad guys" from "innocents."
Peter Maybarduk on Global Vaccination, Jane Chung on Big Tech Lobbying
If we don't learn from this pandemic that none of us can be healthy unless all of us are healthy, how many chances will we get?
Igor Volsky on Ending Gun Violence, Robert Dreyfuss on Iraq War
Many are simply fed up with the idea that change is too hard. Will media conversation shift to keep up with them?
Ernesto Falcon on Internet for All, Alexander Kaufman on Future-Proofed Housing Codes
It's almost as if the corporate press accepted the existence of information haves and have-nots, because that's how goods get divided in this country—even if it doesn't make technological, economic or humanitarian sense.
Ari Berman on the Attack on Voting Rights
Do elite media think that whether or not the US, in 2021, under pressure from racists, goes back on the whole "one person one vote" thing is a legitimate topic for debate?
NYT Fails to Examine Its Participation in Brazil’s ‘Biggest Judicial Scandal’
In article after article, the New York Times failed to share important information on the Lava Jato investigation. This helped normalize the 2016 coup and the removal of Lula from the 2018 presidential elections,
Michelle Holder on Black Women & Minimum Wage, Alice O’Connor on the War on Poverty
While a federal minimum wage increase would affect millions of workers and the social fabric, it would have particular impact on one "essential" yet somehow expendable group: Black women.
Mitch Jones on Texas Freeze-Outs, Joe Torres on News for All the People
If media really expect people to actively challenge the promises pushed—aggressively and constantly—by the energy industry, maybe they could do a little more challenging themselves.
Celine McNicholas and Joanne Doroshow on Forced Arbitration, Kate Bronfrenbrenner on NLRB
We get some background on forced arbitration and why it matters from previous CounterSpin conversations--plus we talked about the Trump-era NLRB while it was happening.
Ending the Forever Wars: Phyllis Bennis on Afghanistan, Hyun Lee on Korea
Puzzling out what's behind the "more war will lead to peace" argument in Afghanistan--and listening to people in North and South Korea who seek an end to the militarized tension they've lived under for more than 70 years.