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CounterSpin is FAIR’s weekly radio show, hosted by Janine Jackson. It’s heard on more than 150 noncommercial stations across the United States and Canada.

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May 4, 2012
Jonathan Chait on Paul Ryan, Brentin Mock on vote fraud

Jonathan Chait on Paul Ryan, Brentin Mock on vote fraud

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin050412 Jonathan Chait and Brentin Mock @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin050412.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Republican Congressman Paul Ryan, we’re told over and over again, is a serious budget wonk on a mission to reduce the deficit. Not quite, says New York magazine reporter Jonathan Chait. He argues that Paul Ryan’s political history doesn’t really resemble […]

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May 1, 2012

Military Intervention in Africa

The viral video Kony 2012, a call by the U.S.-based group Invisible Children to “make famous” the brutal African warlord Joseph Kony and capture him through military action, has been seen by an unprecedented 87 million people, according to YouTube. The video has come under fire for inaccuracy and for what many see as a […]

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April 27, 2012
Mark Weisbrot on Argentina’s Oil, Justin Elliott on Campaign Ad Disclosure

Mark Weisbrot on Argentina’s Oil, Justin Elliott on Campaign Ad Disclosure

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin042712 Mark Weisbrot and Justin Elliott @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin042712.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Argentina’s move to re-nationalize its oil company, taking it back from the Spanish company Repsol, is not getting good reviews in the corporate press overseas or here at home. The move will hurt and further isolate Argentina, say the critics. We’ll […]

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April 20, 2012
Antonia Juhasz on BP anniversary, Lee Fang on Hilary Rosen

Antonia Juhasz on BP anniversary, Lee Fang on Hilary Rosen

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin042012 Antonia Juhasz and Lee Fang @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin042012.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: This week marks the two-year anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Media will be checking in on the Gulf to mark the anniversary—but what will their reporting on this ongoing environmental catastrophe look like? We’ll talk to journalist Antonia […]

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April 13, 2012
Mark Cooper on e-book price fixing; Milton Allimadi on Gil Noble

Mark Cooper on e-book price fixing; Milton Allimadi on Gil Noble

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin041312 Mark Cooper and Milton Allimadi @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin041312.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: The Justice Department has sued Apple and five major book publishers for colluding to fix prices e-book prices, in an attempt to undermine competitor Amazon. What should you know about the suit and its broader implications for, say the music and […]

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April 6, 2012
Brendan DeMelle on fracking, David Swanson on Rachel Maddow

Brendan DeMelle on fracking, David Swanson on Rachel Maddow

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin040612 Brendan DeMelle and David Swanson @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin040612.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: You’ve heard the gas industry PR—their ads are all over television and public radio. And the message—that gas drilling is a safe, affordable path to energy independence—is being echoed by some pundits. Anti-fracking activists sure think otherwise, and they’re challenging the […]

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March 30, 2012
Vijay Prashad on war, diplomacy & media

Vijay Prashad on war, diplomacy & media

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin March 30 2012 Vijay Prashad @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin033012.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: What can we make of a media that seems to thrive on war? Just this week a New York Times news report lamented that the Obama administration was not doing a better job of selling the war in Afghanistan. The Washington […]

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March 23, 2012
Tyson Slocum on gas prices, Andrew Coates on health care debate

Tyson Slocum on gas prices, Andrew Coates on health care debate

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin032312 Tyson Slocum and Andrew Coates @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin032312.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: The right is charging that Barack Obama is responsible for high gas prices, but it’s a given among liberals that Barack Obama has no power over the matter. Media Matters and Think Progress have published pieces chiding Fox News blaming Obama […]

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March 16, 2012
Emira Woods on KONY 2012, Mike Elk on labor journalism

Emira Woods on KONY 2012, Mike Elk on labor journalism

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin031612 Emira Woods and Mike Elk @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin031612.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: The viral video Kony 2012, made by the US based group Invisible Children, calls for military action against African warlord Joseph Kony. It’s been seen by more than 80 million people, AND it’s been criticized for distorting the central African conflict […]

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March 9, 2012
Conn Hallinan on Syria, Tom Tresser on the Olympics

Conn Hallinan on Syria, Tom Tresser on the Olympics

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin030912 Conn Hallinan and Tom Tresser @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin030912.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Journalistic access to the unfolding crisis in Syria is dangerous and sparse. But that hasn’t kept Western officials from insisting that the situation is black and white, with the Syrian regime of Bashir al Assad the bad actor, and rebel Syrian […]

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March 2, 2012
Sonali Kolhatkar on Afghanistan, Kevin Gosztola on WikiLeaks and Stratfor

Sonali Kolhatkar on Afghanistan, Kevin Gosztola on WikiLeaks and Stratfor

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin030212 Sonali Kolhatkar and Kevin Gosztola @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin030212.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: The burning of copies of the Koran by US military in Afghanistan touched off a week of protests, including attacks on US soldiers. While US media have by and large denounced the Koran burning as unacceptably stupid, they still seem to […]

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February 24, 2012
Yousef Munayyer on Khader Adnan, Dana Frank on Honduras

Yousef Munayyer on Khader Adnan, Dana Frank on Honduras

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin022412 Yousef Munayyer and Dana Frank @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin022412.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Palestinian hunger striker Khader Adnan provided a real-life example of something many corporate pundits say they’ve longed to see: A Palestinian activist pursuing non-violent resistance. And yet his 66 day hunger strike to protest Israel’s policies of detaining Palestinians for months […]

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February 17, 2012
Ruth Flower on budget, John Nichols on ‘Uprising’

Ruth Flower on budget, John Nichols on ‘Uprising’

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin021712 Ruth Flower and John Nichols @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin021712.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Much reporting on the White House’s new budget proposal focuses on tax increases, military cuts, and how it will affect the national debt. But what’s the whole story on the White House budget? We’ll hear from Ruth Flower from the Friends […]

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February 10, 2012
Jon O’Brien on contraception controversy, Richard Rothstein on segregation study

Jon O’Brien on contraception controversy, Richard Rothstein on segregation study

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin021012 Jon OBrien and Richard Rothstein @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin021012.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Another front has opened up in the long-running battle over the new health care law. As we hear the story in the media, Catholics are up in arms over being required to provide birth control, or something to that effect. Republicans […]

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February 3, 2012
Vijay Prashad on Iran, Jeff Ballinger on Apple

Vijay Prashad on Iran, Jeff Ballinger on Apple

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin020312 Vijay Prashad and Jeff Ballinger @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin020312.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: U.S. media are abuzz with stories about the growing threat Iran poses to the U.S. The stories seem to embellish recent remarks by the U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who says Iran is a larger threat than al Qaeda […]

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January 27, 2012
Michael Hastings on ‘The Operators,’ Laura Flanders on Gingrich and racism

Michael Hastings on ‘The Operators,’ Laura Flanders on Gingrich and racism

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin012712 Michael Hastings and Laura Flanders @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin012712.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: In the summer of 2010, Rolling Stone published an explosive story about the Afghan War. Within days, U.S./NATO commander General Stanley McChrystal was out of a job. Much of the media coverage of the story focused on the blunt language McChrystal […]

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January 20, 2012
Paul Mutter on Syria, Richard Martinez on Arizona ethnic studies

Paul Mutter on Syria, Richard Martinez on Arizona ethnic studies

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin012012 Paul Mutter and Richard Martinez @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin012012.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: The bloody conflict in Syria is, according to press accounts, bordering on a full-scale civil war. Much of what we’re seeing in U.S.media comes from opposition sources seeking to topple the Assad dictatorship—leaving some skeptics to wonder whether we’re getting an […]

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January 13, 2012
Cyrus Safdari on Iran, Jake Johnston on Haiti

Cyrus Safdari on Iran, Jake Johnston on Haiti

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin011312 Cyrus Safdari and Jake Johnston @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin011312.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: As a covert war against Iran seems to be intensifying, the U.S. media have looked like willing partners in an anti-Iran propaganda campaign, helping US officials project dishonest claims, rs. We’ll speak with Cyrus Safdari of Iran Affairs about coverage. Also […]

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January 6, 2012
Glenn Greenwald on NDAA, Corynne McSherry on SOPA

Glenn Greenwald on NDAA, Corynne McSherry on SOPA

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin010612 Glenn Greenwald and Corynne McSherry @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin010612.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: President Obama’s signing of a defense bill including authorization for the indefinite detention of terror suspects–including U.S. citizens– has been condemned by leading civil liberties voices. But the outrage has been somewhat obscured by a general confusion about what the bill […]

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January 1, 2012

It’s All of Us; Except the 1 Percent

The Occupy movement has garnered, if not the respect, at least the acknowledgement of a corporate press corps inclined for any number of reasons to ignore it. Still, coverage is centered on the protesters themselves, without necessarily engaging their ideas or allowing those ideas to shape reporting. It’s entirely possible for media to say these […]

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