"You’re forced to resolve your case in a private, secret, rigged arbitration system that’s controlled by the company."

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.

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.

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.

The disasters of climate disruption have next to no relationship to what corporate media say is "feasible" to address them.

For many women, overturning Roe v. Wade would not suddenly shut down access to abortion, simply because many women already lack that access.

Conversations about Flint on CounterSpin, in its particulars and in terms of how it fits into bigger questions around environmental racism, resource control and local governance.

Historians are shaking their heads as media talk about January 6 as "unprecedented"; while shocking and dispiriting, it has layers and layers of precedent that need to be learned and engaged, if we are ever to actually have the racial reckoning that corporate media are forever insisting we've already had.

The $2,000 check is indeed far from a perfect plan to help ordinary Americans, yet if it is the only plan currently on the table, many in corporate media are inclined to leave it there.

Media who egged on Trump's candidacy, trivialized his venality and normalized as extreme-but-within-range his and his party's every anti-democratic outrage, are poorly placed to take principled umbrage when that juggernaut takes the course that everyone and their mother said it would.