"You can't say that Donald Trump is just doing whatever the law allows; Donald Trump was part of why this is in the law."

Unlawful militias manage to be part of the political landscape while somehow escaping rigorous media scrutiny.

"The reality that we live in today is not immutable. It is the product of choices, of power dynamics, of motivations of certain sectors over others, a set of priorities that we can shift. And not just in some abstract, pie-in-the-sky, theoretical thinking, but actually right here, right now."

Steve Wamhoff, director of federal tax policy at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, discusses the takeaways from Trump's taxes.

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-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin Antonia Juhasz Interview @http://www.fair.org/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin200918Juhasz.mp3″] MP3 Link Janine Jackson: Dow Jones dropped ExxonMobil from its blue chip stock market index, a spot it had occupied since 1928. Major banks […]

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."