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As corporate media talk about Syria, where a recent airstrike by the US, legality be damned, is meant to represent the US doing the right thing in the world, are the principles supposedly guiding US intervention in Syria really principles—in the sense of being universally applied?
The Supreme Court has just ruled that if a police officer doesn’t understand that they are violating your Constitutional rights–they aren’t.
US media seem to suggest that there’s an “Israeli” position and a “Palestinian” position, but no actual reality worth trying to discern.
The administration that has announced and acted on its intention to root out, harass and deport black and brown non-citizens wants to add the question “Are you a US citizen?” to the census. The list of problems with that is long.
In April 2004, CounterSpin spoke with journalist Rahul Mahajan, just returned from Fallujah. We replay that interview to mark the 15th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.
The federal trial over voter fraud mouthpiece Kris Kobach’s effort to change registration laws in Kansas is a chance for corporate media to acknowledge the voter fraud pretense as part of the voter suppression effort.
Media will need to shake up their reporting on how workers fight, because it looks like West Virginia won’t be the end of this sort of action.
The ability of workers to build collective power is central in Janus v. AFSCME, a case currently before the Supreme Court. We talk about how efforts to weaken workers’ voice masquerade as efforts to strengthen it, and how we can see through them.
If Americans really want to stop being “the only country where this happens,” which keeps officially claiming there’s “no way to prevent” it, it will require not just deep examination of the multiple roots of mass violence of this sort, but also an approach to political processes that keeps its eye on the prize of real change.
What do you do with a press corps that pauses from raising alarms about North Korea’s warmongering to raise alarms about North Korea’s peacemongering?
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin Richard Wolff Full Show @http://www.fair.org/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin180209.mp3″] MP3 Link This week on CounterSpin: Economic news is presented as facts and figures, but it’s also, maybe most importantly, a story, a narrative. But whether it’s an article about companies using their tax cut savings to give workers bonuses or one about how few of them are […]
It should now surprise no one that Trump’s infrastructure plans—promoted in his State of the Union—have more to do with private riches than with public works.
Hundreds of thousands of women took to the streets in a show of resistance to the Trump administration, highlighting a range of threats to women’s human rights and well-being; central among those is the assault on abortion access.
Whether it’s Haitians or Muslims or Mexicans, Donald Trump’s actions seem clearly driven by hatred. Media’s job goes beyond identifying this animus, to countering the damage it inflicts with thoughtful, humane reporting.
A little-noticed Supreme Court ruling may fundamentally undercut the ability of women (or anyone) to band together in the workplace to fight harassment, pay inequity and discrimination.
Different people have very different visions of the way forward for Puerto Rico—depending, to put it simply, on whether you think servicing debt matters more than human beings.
At the end of the year, we revisit just a few of the conversations it’s been our pleasure to bring you.
The Supreme Court has OKed full implementation of Donald Trump’s Muslim travel ban—despite the fact that its constitutionality is still being challenged in lower courts.
Some perspective on the impact of Trump’s decision to “recognize” Jerusalem as the capital of Israel–apart from what it means for “Trump on the World Stage,”
The electoral chaos in Honduras—where a president has not been declared nearly two weeks after voting—requires media to connect the dots between a bipartisan US foreign policy that supports leaders deemed friendly to US “interests,” and the hardship and violence and voicelessness that pushes many to flee the countries run by those “friends.”
