This week on CounterSpin: The crises we face right now in the US—a nominally democratic political process that’s strangled by white supremacist values, a corporate profiteering system that mindlessly overrides human needs to treat the environment as just another “input”—are terrible, but not, precisely, new. People have fought against these ideas in various forms before; […]

Luke Harris and Joe Torres on America’s Racist Legacy

CounterSpin is the weekly radio show of FAIR, the national media watch group.

The 2020 election was not stolen from Donald Trump through  skullduggery--but many people who vote do believe that.

Steven Rosenfeld on Election Transparency, Ian Vandewalker on Small Donors

US press are so used to driving the narrative they don’t know what to do except yell “shut up shut up shut up” and send in the cops.

Ahmad Abuznaid on Rafah Invasion

Different media, telling different stories, can change our understanding of our past, our present and our future.

Joseph Torres & Collette Watson on Media for Racial Justice

Colleges’ official responses to protests are gutting the notion that elite higher education entails respect for the free expression of ideas.

Sam on Students for Justice in Palestine, Sally Dworak-Fisher on Delivery Workers

The long-fought effort to get legal acknowledgement of the abuse of Iraqi detainees in the Iraq War is coming to a federal court in Virginia.

Luke Harris and Joe Torres on America’s Racist Legacy

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