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[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin081911 Jim Hightower and Glen Ford @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin081911.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: ‘Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be elected president of the United States, please pay attention.’ That was late columnist Molly Ivins’ advice near the end of the George W. Bush era. But lo and behold another […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin081211 Karl Grossman and Steve Wing @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin081211.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Japan’s Foreign Minister has told officials to stop claiming Japanese food is safe. This after beef contaminated by radiation from Fukushima’s No. 1 nuclear power plant was sold and consumed around the country. Meanwhile a devastating report from Associated Press reveals […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin080511 Bill Hartung and Rania Khalek @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin080511.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin. The debt ceiling has been lifted; that fixed everything, right? Well, the Democratic base is unhappy with the White House capitulation, the ratings agencies still aren’t sure the United States has its fiscal house in order, and there’s nothing here to […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin072911 Devin Burghart and Julianna Escobedo Shepherd @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin072911.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: The US media narrative equating terrorism with Islam was on embarrassing display last week following the Norwegian terror attacks, a story which raised issues about right-wing extremism, and the links between violent speech and violent actions. We’ll speak with Devin […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin072211 Mary Bottari and Marjorie Cohn @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin072211.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: You’ve probably never heard of the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC. So why do they have so much sway over the laws affecting your life? We may get some sunlight on the actions of this influential “public/private membership organization” with […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin071511 James Galbraith and John Nichols @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin071511.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: The United States is hurtling toward fiscal catastrophe as the dramatic standoff persists between Barack Obama and Congressional Republicans on a deal to raise the debt ceiling… that’s the story anyway. How much of this is political theatre and what’s the […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin070811 Noam Chomsky and Monica Novoa @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin070811.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Where things stand with the Arab Spring and drive for democracy in the region. U.S. interests have always been prioritized over human rights and democratic values; the people-powered uprisings have threatened the status quo and scrambled some of the usual media […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin070111 Patrick Cockburn and Jordan Flaherty @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin070111.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Congressional debate over the Libya War shows an apparently bipartisan sense of frustration and outrage over the NATO mission. This has triggered a serious debate over the legality of the war, among other things. But there is almost no discussion of […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin062411 Susan Saladoff and Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin062411.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin we’re talking about two new films which, while journalism is not their central subject, directly engage news media’s influence and real world impact as a critical part of the stories they tell. First up: You’ve heard the one […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin061711 Shahid Buttar and Gareth Porter @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin061711.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: An activist in Texas gets his FBI files—and finds out that agents have been tailing him for years. Activists in the Midwest are the targets of a wide-ranging investigation, including a half-dozen house raids and an array of subpoenas. And—oh yeah—parts […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin061011 Harvey Wasserman and Andrew Fieldhouse @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin061011.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: After a lull in reporting about the Japanese nuclear disaster comes news that officials there are admitting that radiation releases were much larger than previously claimed– not a surprise to critics who saw those early claims as part of a government/corporate/media […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin060311 Jane Slaughter and Pamela Newkirk @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin060311.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: the National Labor Relations Board has told Boeing that they can’t move operations from Washington to South Carolina in order to avoid union organizing. It may seem straightforward that a company can’t retaliate against workers for exercising their legal rights but […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin052711 Bill McKibben and Allison Kilkenny @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin052711.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: The deadliest tornado in decabes swept through Missouri, the latest example of what seem to be unusually volatile weather patterns around the world. But when it comes to discussing extreme weather, one thing media don’t want to dwell on is climate […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin052011 Ali Abunimah and Glenn Greenwald @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin052011.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: The Israeli defense minister says that major protests like those on Israel’s borders May 15th require new responses; but what if anything is new about US journalists’ approach to Palestinian protests and rights? Journalist Ali Abunimah of Electronic Intifada will join […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin051311 Miranda Spencer and Mike Ervin @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin051311.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: What are renewables and why are media telling us so little about them? With energy prices rising, and a nuclear disaster still unfolding in Japan, it would seem to be the perfect time to talk about renewable energy sources, like solar, […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin050611 Matthew Alexander and Tyson Slocum @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin050611.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: The killing of Osama bin Laden has delivered plenty of media themes: Can the U.S. trust Pakistan? What does this mean for Al Qaeda? And, predictably enough, did Bush-era torture help find the al Qaeda leader? Torture advocates’ insistence that this […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin Andy Worthington Lucinda Marshall @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin042911.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: If you’ve heard much at all about WikiLeaks new disclosures about Guantánamo, you’ve probably noticed that US media tend to emphasize information justifying and rationalizing the U.S. actions regarding its offshore prison camp. But what should listeners really know about the new […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin042211 Amanda Marcotte and Dave Lindorff @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin042211.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: The budget battle over Planned Parenthood’s federal funding produced more than the average dose of media misinformation. And clues, mostly missed by the media about the GOP’s actual agenda. We’ll talk with journalist and blogger Amanda Marcotte about Planned Parenthood. Also […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin041511 Sharif Abdel Kouddous and John Nichols @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin041511.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: With the Egyptian military still firmly in power, the Egyptian revolution is still very much a work in progress. The same military that we were once told was a liberal friend of democratic activists, is reportedly continuing policies of torture, […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin040811 Harold Meyerson and Lizzy Ratner @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin040811.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin:. Republican Budget Committee chair Paul Ryan unveiled his party’s budget plan this week. Media consumers learned that Ryan is gutsy, that he’s serious as a heart attack, that the plan is bold and sweeping… but what would it mean for peoples’ […]
