Daniel Hale stands convicted of revealing things the US government didn't want known about its drone warfare programs—the ones elite media have often presented as precise in separating "bad guys" from "innocents."

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Chip Gibbons on Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale

If we don't learn from this pandemic that none of us can be healthy unless all of us are healthy, how many chances will we get?

Peter Maybarduk on Global Vaccination, Jane Chung on Big Tech Lobbying

Many are simply fed up with the idea that change is too hard. Will media conversation shift to keep up with them?

Igor Volsky on Ending Gun Violence, Robert Dreyfuss on Iraq War

It's almost as if the corporate press accepted the existence of information haves and have-nots, because that's how goods get divided in this country—even if it doesn't make technological, economic or humanitarian sense.

Ernesto Falcon on Internet for All, Alexander Kaufman on Future-Proofed Housing Codes

Do elite media think that whether or not the US, in 2021, under pressure from racists, goes back on the whole "one person one vote" thing is a legitimate topic for debate?

Ari Berman on the Attack on Voting Rights

While a federal minimum wage increase would affect millions of workers and the social fabric, it would have particular impact on one "essential" yet somehow expendable group: Black women.

Michelle Holder on Black Women & Minimum Wage, Alice O’Connor on the War on Poverty

If media really expect people to actively challenge the promises pushed—aggressively and constantly—by the energy industry, maybe they could do a little more challenging themselves.

Mitch Jones on Texas Freeze-Outs, Joe Torres on News for All the People

We get some background on forced arbitration and why it matters from previous CounterSpin conversations--plus we talked about the Trump-era NLRB while it was happening.

Celine McNicholas and Joanne Doroshow on Forced Arbitration, Kate Bronfrenbrenner on NLRB

Puzzling out what's behind the "more war will lead to peace" argument in Afghanistan--and listening to people in North and South Korea who seek an end to the militarized tension they've lived under for more than 70 years.

Ending the Forever Wars: Phyllis Bennis on Afghanistan, Hyun Lee on Korea

The disasters of climate disruption have next to no relationship to what corporate media say is "feasible" to address them.

Basav Sen on Biden Climate Policy, Hannah Sassaman on Prometheus v. FCC

For many women, overturning Roe v. Wade would not suddenly shut down access to abortion, simply because many women already lack that access.

Kimberly Inez McGuire on Abortion Realities, Bama Athreya on Defending Gig Workers

Conversations about Flint on CounterSpin, in its particulars and in terms of how it fits into bigger questions around environmental racism, resource control and local governance.

Chris Savage, Talia Buford & Peggy Case on Flint Water Crisis

Historians are shaking their heads as media talk about January 6 as "unprecedented"; while shocking and dispiriting, it has layers and layers of precedent that need to be learned and engaged, if we are ever to actually have the racial reckoning that corporate media are forever insisting we've already had.  

Keri Leigh Merritt on the New Lost Cause, Elisabeth Rosenthal on Troubled Vaccine Rollout

Media who egged on Trump's candidacy, trivialized his venality and normalized as extreme-but-within-range his and his party's every anti-democratic outrage, are poorly placed to take principled umbrage when that juggernaut takes the course that everyone and their mother said it would.

Dorothee Benz on January 6 Insurrection, Mara Verheyden-Hilliard on Police Responsibility

A reflection of the sorts of conversations we hope have offered some voice or context or information that you might not have heard elsewhere, or that might help you assess the news you are hearing.

Best of CounterSpin 2020

CounterSpin, FAIR’s weekly radio show, provides a critical examination of the major stories every week, and exposes what the mainstream media might have missed in their own coverage.

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