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January 03, 2025Sonali Kolhatkar & Laura Flanders on Independent Media and the Year AheadCorporate news media, tasked primarily with enriching the rich and shoring up entrenched institutions, will not do the liberatory, illuminating work of independent journalism....more28minPlay
December 27, 2024The Best of CounterSpin 2024This is the time of year when we take a listen back to some of the conversations from the past year that have helped us clarify the events that bombard us....more28minPlay
December 20, 2024Yanni Chen on TikTok Ban, Richard Mendel on Youth and CrimeDoes banning TokTok threaten First Amendment freedoms? A judge says the government “acted solely to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation.”...more28minPlay
December 13, 2024Iman Abid on Israeli GenocideWhile not the first to ask us to see the assault on Palestinians as genocide, Amnesty’s report offers an opening to ask why some are so invested in saying it isn’t....more28minPlay
December 06, 2024Arlene Martinez on Amazon Misconduct, Neil deMause (2019) on Amazon HQ FightWhen a corporate behemoth like Amazon buys one of the country’s national newspapers, it’s a conflict writ large as can or should be....more28minPlay
November 29, 2024Katherine Gallagher on Abu Ghraib VerdictA federal jury has just found military contractor CACI responsible for its part in Abu Ghraib abuse, in a ruling being called “exceptional in every sense of the term.”...more28minPlay
November 22, 2024Amos Barshad on Legalized Sports BettingLegal sports gambling is the apple of the eye of many corporate and private state actors—but how does it affect states, communities, people?...more28minPlay
November 15, 2024Adam Johnson on Charlottesville March (2017), Jacinta Gonzalez on Criminalizing Immigration (2018)If we're to believe the chest-thumping, high on Trump's agenda will be the enforced criminalization of immigration....more28minPlay
November 08, 2024Julie Hollar and Jim Naureckas on Placing Blame for TrumpWe talk about what just happened, and corporate media’s role in it, with Julie Hollar, senior analyst at the media watch group FAIR, and FAIR’s editor Jim Naureckas....more28minPlay
November 01, 2024Nicole Foy on Immigration and LaborNews media start with the premise of immigration itself as a “crisis,” with the only debate around how to "stem" or "control" it....more28minPlay