Janine Jackson interviewed journalist Antonia Juhasz about the end of oil for the September 18, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. MP3 Link Janine Jackson: Dow Jones dropped ExxonMobil from its blue chip stock market ind...

Laura Flanders, the original host of CounterSpin and the former director of the Women's Desk at FAIR, practices a kind of journalism that's meant to encourage engagement, not just in the stories it tells, but in the people who tell them. 

While we welcome the demise of an oil industry that does such harm, we have to remember that a creature can do tremendous damage in its death throes, and that a better way forward isn't guaranteed, unless we fight for it.

"Most Americans believe that they have a very robust right to protest...but the courts haven't felt that way necessarily."

"If we can't deal with the problem of pharmaceutical monopolies, if we can't deal with the problem of politics influencing health criteria, before there is a safe and effective vaccine, then we can see that we're in for a world of hurt."

"It’s a health problem, it’s an environmental problem, it’s a racial justice problem at this point, because of the way it’s distributed throughout the country and the world."

  Independent journalist Chris Hedges (ScheerPost, 8/25/20) wrote: The flagrant corruption and misuse of the legal system to abjectly serve corporate interests in the Donziger case illustrates the deep decay within our judiciary and democratic institut...

There is a connection—underexplored —between brutish police responses to peaceful protests and a history of Supreme Court rulings around the First Amendment.

"The Black athlete is the most important and most influential and most visible Black employee in the 20th century, because they’re the ones who were allowed to integrate the society."

"Foreign policy has to be grounded in global cooperation, human rights...respect for international law, privileging diplomacy over war."