Brian Mier on Lula Election Victory
It’s hard not to imagine the use that a differently focused press corps might make of Brazil’s change of direction.
CounterSpin
Gene Slater on Housing Crisis, Rakeen Mabud on Inflation Coverage
The affordable housing crisis is not just capitalism run amok, because that doesn’t happen without government involvement.
Jake Johnston on Haiti Intervention, Jeannie Park on Harvard Affirmative Action
US news media ignore the role US intervention has played throughout Haitian history in order to push for the same sort of intervention again.
Noelle Hanrahan on Mumia Abu-Jamal Update
Overt, proud-of-it bias has shaped coverage of Mumia Abu-Jamal’s case from the outset, and current mentions suggest little has changed.
Julie Hollar and Jim Naureckas on 2022 Midterms
Election coverage should be judged not by how reporters “treat” Democrats or Republicans, but about how they inform and engage the public.
Ahmad Abuznaid on Israeli Human Rights Crackdown, Sohale Mortazavi on Cryptocurrency
Growing numbers of people have concerns, not just about uncritical US support for Israel, but also about the shutdown of critics.
John Logan on Amazon & Starbucks Organizing
With tens of thousands of workers walking out around the country, the notion that this is somehow not meaningful should be hard to maintain.
Julio López Varona on Puerto Rico Colonialism, Guerline Jozef on Haitian Refugee Abuse
Tax giveaways to non–Puerto Ricans mean money not going to Puerto Rico’s energy systems, schools, hospitals, housing.
Alicia Bell and Collette Watson on Media Reparations
US news media need to not only acknowledge inflicting racist harms, but take seriously the idea of repairing them.
Sumayyah Waheed on CNN’s Copaganda Hire, Chris Becker on Inflation Coverage
For corporate media, being a paid flack for the police in no way disqualifies you to offer analysis of law enforcement.
Matt Gertz and Eric K Ward on White ‘Replacement’ Theory
News media missed an opportunity to interrogate the media outlets and politicians who repeatedly invoke the white replacement idea.
Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso on Indigenous Resistance, Alex Vitale on the End of Policing
The film Powerlands covers Indigenous people around the world, and the resource extraction stealing their water, minerals and homelands.
Ahmad Abuznaid on Palestine Human Rights Crackdown, Andrew Perez on Dark Money Donation
The corporate media narrative on Israel/Palestine makes it hard to make sense of the recent assault by Israeli forces on the Gaza Strip.
Azadeh Shahshahani on Central America Plan, Jon Lloyd on Facebook Disinformation
We have some questions about the US government’s claim that this time, they’re really bringing stability and security to Central America.
Angelo Carusone on Alex Jones Trial, Karl Grossman on Nuclear War
Alex Jones’ lawyer says talking about his white supremacism would “distract from the main issues.” What are the “main issues” about Jones?
Luke Harris and Joe Torres on America’s Racist Legacy
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; […]
Vivek Shandas on Climate Disruption & Heat Waves, Jamie Kalven on Laquan McDonald Coverup
There’s a way to tell the story of heat waves that connects to policy and planning, but that centers human beings.
Nora Benavidez on Post-Roe Data Privacy, Dorothee Benz on January 6 Insurrection
This week on CounterSpin: The internet has changed the way we communicate, access information and even organize, which means concerns about digital privacy are concerns about privacy, period. In the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, allowing for the criminalization of abortion, our ability to safely access information and health care […]
Jessica Mason Pieklo on Abortion Rights, Preston Mitchum on Reproductive Justice
This week on CounterSpin: The Supreme Court’s reversal on abortion rights is so actually and potentially devastating that it’s hard to know where to look. It’s worth tracing things back—Katherine Stewart in the Guardian, among others, walks us through how, at a time when most Protestant Republicans, including the Southern Baptist Convention, hailed the liberalization […]
Adele Stan & Elliot Mincberg on John Roberts, Chip Gibbons on Why Assange Matters
A Supreme Court led by Chief Justice John Roberts has gutted multiple legally and societally established precedents.
