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This week on CounterSpin: March 22 was World Water Day, meant to call attention to the crisis in world water supply and sanitation that makes lack of access to clean water far and away the leading cause of death for children under 5. Headlines about “taking shorter showers” suggest mainstream media didn’t dive that deeply into the crisis’ environmental, economic or political context. We talk about water with Darcey O’Callaghan, International Policy Director at Food & Water Watch.

Also on the show: You may have heard that the Class of 2014 is the most indebted ever, or that graduates leave school with an average of $33,000 of debt. But now some are telling us the student loan crisis is “easing,” others that it was never that big a deal to begin with. What’s up with that, and what impact would Barack Obama’s proposed Student Aid Bill of Rights have on the issue? We’ll get that story from Natalia Abrams, executive director of Student Debt Crisis.

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This week on CounterSpin: Is Venezuela really a threat to the security of the United States, as the White House has declared? And if not, what can be the point of such a statement? We’ll get an accounting about what seems to be threatening Washington from activist and author Alfredo Lopez, of May First/People Link.

Also on the show: “Coal is an outlaw enterprise,” declared Robert Kennedy Jr. in a New York Times op-ed last December. Apart from that forceful opinion piece, though, you probably haven’t seen very much about one of the most damaging — to people and the environment — aspects of that enterprise: mountaintop removal. After years of activism, are we about to see an end to that harmful process? We’ll hear from Jeff Biggers, author of Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland.

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Counterspin provides a critical examination of the each week’s major news stories, and exposes what the mainstream media may have missed in their own coverage. Produced by the national media watch group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting).

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Counterspin provides a critical examination of the major stories every week, and exposes what the mainstream media may have missed in their own coverage. Combines lively discussion and thoughtful critique. Produced by the national media watch group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting).

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Counterspin provides a critical examination of the major stories every week, and exposes what the mainstream media may have missed in their own coverage. Combines lively discussion and thoughtful critique. Produced by the national media watch group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting).

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The Black Panthers & Disability

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Counterspin provides a critical examination of the major stories every week, and exposes what the mainstream media may have missed in their own coverage. Combines lively discussion and thoughtful critique. Produced by the national media watch group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting).

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Michio Kaku talks to Brian Greene about string theory and our universe.

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