"The teachers have really emerged as heroes within this fight. They are challenging the status quo. They are fighting for a future for their children."

Corporate media's lack of interest in indigenous issues, and their ahistorical, distorted view of them when they do cover them, are long overdue for change.

MP3 Link This week on CounterSpin:  Corporate media have been declaring organized labor moribund—sometimes abetting efforts to kill it—for many years now. But more than 30,000 public school teachers in Los Angeles,

"There's this absurd idea that the sanctions somehow only hurt the Venezuelan government and Venezuelan government officials."

"The environmental community, the human rights community and the indigenous communities have really come together against border militarization."

"Building a wall" at the US/Mexico border is an abstraction for many Americans--but not for people who live in the borderlands, and those who listen to those who do.

"If you say, “Hey, I want to censor First Amendment activity of people I don't like,” that's a little bit suspect. But if you say, “Hey, there's terrorist mobs descending on the streets. We gotta defend ourselves,

More than 200 Iraqi civilians killed by a US airstrike in Mosul. But while media express concern, the idea that the deaths were a lamentable part of a nevertheless valiant effort to liberate the city from terrorists' grip is not being questioned.

The Washington Post published 30 articles, op-eds, blog posts and editorials on Neil Gorsuch in the 48 hours after his nomination—not a single one overtly critical or in opposition.

Team Trump says that programs that support affordable housing for families, the elderly, and people with disabilities haven't "justified their existence." How do we fight back with a different vision of housing and community?