Joseph Kabila's extra-legal 18-year reign in the Democratic Republic of Congo has seen tremendous violence and privation. Elite US media, recently granted an audience with Kabila, seemed more interested to learn his favorite movie.

Maurice Carney on Congo Elections, Timothy Karr on FCC & Net Neutrality

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

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.

Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib Lawsuit, Dave Lindorff on Spy for No Country

What needs to change in Haiti includes Western media presentations that ignore or erase even recent history.

Chris Bernadel on Haiti

Corporate profit margins are at a level not seen since the 1950s, as abject greed was  whistled past by the press corps.

Rakeen Mabud on Greedflation, Rachel K. Jones on Mifepristone

A senior UN human rights official says there is a "plausible" case that Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, a war crime.

Phyllis Bennis on Gaza Ceasefire Resolution, Robert Weissman on Boeing Scandal

Elite media still can’t quite connect images of floods or fires to the triumphant shareholder meetings of the fossil fuel companies.

Maurice Carney on Congo Elections, Timothy Karr on FCC & Net Neutrality

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