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January 27, 2023Michael Mechanic on Underfunding the IRSThe message from many politicians and their media amplifiers: Cheating on taxes is a luxury only the rich can, or should be able to, afford.28 minPlay
January 24, 2023‘The Cry Is “Lumumba Lives”—His Ideas, His Principles’"The same forces that were at play in the '60s to remove Lumumba are at play today in terms of keeping the Congolese from advancing."0 minPlay
January 20, 2023Maurice Carney on Patrice LumumbaLumumba's assassination, judging by attention, has no lessons for US citizens or the press corps about the past, the present or the future.28 minPlay
January 14, 2023NYT Moves to ‘Stack the Deck of Justice’ Against Its SubscribersAnother company silently snuck a forced arbitration clause into its terms of service—and that company is the New York Times.0 minPlay
January 13, 2023David Sirota on Accountability JournalismThe public still look to news media to give them accurate, independently sourced and documented information to help them make decisions.28 minPlay
January 06, 2023Paul Hudson on Airline Meltdown, Melissa Crow on Asylum PolicyThere's an unarticulated underpinning to elite media conversation that as a consumer, you don't have anything called a "right."28 minPlay
December 30, 2022Best of CounterSpin 2022CounterSpin is thankful to every activist, researcher, reporter and advocate who appeared on the show, of whom this is just a small selection.28 minPlay
December 23, 2022Lisa Gilbert on the January 6 ReportThe Very Smart People will tell us that what we really ought to do, what the intelligent people would do, is, well, nothing.28 minPlay
December 09, 2022Jen Deerinwater on Indian Child Welfare ActThose who want to eliminate the Indian Child Welfare Act are opposed by the reality that made the Act necessary in the first place.28 minPlay
December 07, 2022Media’s Crime Hype and Scapegoating Led to Crackdown on Unhoused PeopleThe New York Times parrots the implausible suggestion that cities cracking down on unsheltered people constitutes efforts to help them.0 minPlay