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What if there isn’t a "border crisis" so much as an absence of historical understanding, of empathy, of community resourcing?
Communities are hard at work reimagining public safety without punitive policing. There’s new work on those possibilities.
How does the New York Times’ assertion that “what Israel is fighting to defend is a society that values human life” stand up now?
Elite reporters are so removed from daily reality that they assume a raise in wages means fast food employees have to lose their jobs.
US journalists invoke the First Amendment a lot, but not so much when it extends to regular folks saying NO to the US government.
CounterSpin is thankful to all the activists, researchers, reporters and advocates who appear on the show to help us see the world more clearly.
Powerful institutions, including the media, combine a selective understanding of free expression with a vehement desire to enforce it.
Richard Wiles & Matthew Cunningham-Cook on Climate Disruption Filtered Through
Corporate Media
Dec. 15, 2023
We can't have a public conversation about how fossil fuels cause climate disruption in a corporate media moneyed by fossil fuel companies.
The devastation of Gaza, and the vehement efforts to silence anyone who wants to challenge it, is the story for today.
Too many outlets seem to have trouble shaking the framing of abortion as a "controversy," or as posing problems for this or that politician.
Argentina's new president questions the death toll of the country's military dictatorship and calls climate change a “lie of socialism.”
The question is whether the Court’s conservative majority can use its special brand of backwards-looking to determine this country’s future.
Shouldn't the press corps be actively involved in informing us about the person third in line for the presidency?
“The newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
Paxlovid's "transition" to the commercial market entails hiking the cost of the treatment to 100 times the cost of production.
The primary food aid program, SNAP, while the constant target of the racist, drown-government-in-the-bathtub crowd, keeps on keeping on.
This week on CounterSpin: In the wake of the October 7 attacks by Hamas and the ensuing bombing campaign from Israel on the Gaza Strip, many people were surprised that CNN‘s Fareed Zakaria aired an interview with a Palestinian activist who frankly...
Corporate media tell us to be mad at the rando taking toilet paper from Walgreens, but not the executive who’s skimming your paycheck.
The story is mostly about the political fortunes of an individual; the huge numbers of less powerful people impacted are, at best, backdrop.