This week on CounterSpin:  In the wake of the October 7 attacks by Hamas and the ensuing bombing campaign from Israel on the Gaza Strip, many people were surprised that CNN‘s Fareed Zakaria aired an interview with a Palestinian activist who frankly described the daily human rights violations in Gaza, the right of […]

Phyllis Bennis on Gaza

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

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

Joseph Torres & Collette Watson on Media for Social 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.

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.

Phyllis Bennis on Gaza

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