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CounterSpin

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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December 26, 2008
Kali Akuno, Andy Worthington and Francesca Grifo on Bush legacy

Kali Akuno, Andy Worthington and Francesca Grifo on Bush legacy

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin122608 Kali Akuno and Andy Worthington and Francesca Grifo @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin122608.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: December 2008 marks not just the conclusion of another calendar year, but the end of eight years of the George W. Bush administration—an era notable for, among other things, particular predations on civil liberties, the free flow of […]

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December 19, 2008
Michael Ratner on detainee abuse report, Alfie Kohn on education nominee

Michael Ratner on detainee abuse report, Alfie Kohn on education nominee

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin121908 Michael Ratner and Alfie Kohn @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin121908.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: When the Senate Armed Services Committee issued a report finding former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other high officials responsible for abusive treatment of detainees in Guantánamo, Iraq and Afghanistan—with few exceptions, the media played the story down, preferring, for instance, […]

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December 12, 2008
Bob McChesney on Tribune bankruptcy, Steve Early on card check

Bob McChesney on Tribune bankruptcy, Steve Early on card check

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin121208 Bob McChesney and Steve Early @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin121208.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: The Tribune Company that owns the Chicago Tribune and the LA Times along with much else declared bankruptcy this week, just a year after new owner Sam Zell took over, with his notable lack of background or interest in newspapers. It […]

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December 5, 2008
Paul Sullivan on Gulf War Syndrome, Peter Hart on Obama’s nominees

Paul Sullivan on Gulf War Syndrome, Peter Hart on Obama’s nominees

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin120508 Paul Sullivan and Peter Hart @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin120508.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: For years veterans claiming to suffer from Gulf War Syndrome were derided as cranky and hysterical by the department of defense and even by some journalists. Will that change now that a definitive report says the Gulf War illnesses are real, […]

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November 28, 2008
Mark Brenner on Big 3 bailout, Steve Rendall on the Fairness Doctrine

Mark Brenner on Big 3 bailout, Steve Rendall on the Fairness Doctrine

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin112808 Mark Brenner and Steve Rendall @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin112808.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Bailing out the Big Three. GM, Ford and Chrysler are on the brink of total failure, we’re told. In a season of corporate bailouts of all sorts, this one is meeting more resistance—in part because union autoworkers, we’re told, are making […]

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November 21, 2008
Kai Wright on the Proposition 8 vote, Andy Worthington on Guantánamo

Kai Wright on the Proposition 8 vote, Andy Worthington on Guantánamo

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin112108 Kai Wright and Andy Worthington @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin112108.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: The victory of Proposition 8 in California has, at least for the moment, put the brakes on gay marriage in that state. The post-election recriminations are flying, but the main story we’re hearing is that black voters turned out in droves—to […]

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November 14, 2008
Maurice Carney on the Congo, Sasha Lilley on The War Comes Home

Maurice Carney on the Congo, Sasha Lilley on The War Comes Home

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin111408 Maurice Carney and Sasha Lilley @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin111408.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: As the Congo sinks again into crisis, U.S. journalism is again largely portraying the conflict as peculiar to the Congo, a story explained by the country’s and its neighbors’ endless, intractable ethnic struggles. We’ll be joined by Maurice Carney, the executive […]

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November 7, 2008
Bernie Horn on election mandate, Billy Bragg on art and activism

Bernie Horn on election mandate, Billy Bragg on art and activism

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin110708 Bernie Horn and Billy Bragg @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin110708.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Media are naturally enough busy trying to draw meaning from the results of the 2008 election that brought Barack Obama to the presidency. One emerging line is notable: That the victory of the African American Democrat either doesn’t change or actually […]

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October 31, 2008
Bob Dreyfuss on Syria airstrike, Wally Bowen on ‘white spaces’

Bob Dreyfuss on Syria airstrike, Wally Bowen on ‘white spaces’

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin103108 Bob Dreyfuss and Wally Bowen @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin103108.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: The election is not over as we record this show, but no matter who wins, the Iraq War was largely a second-tier issue for the media, more of a discussion of the past than the present. Not even the war spilling […]

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October 24, 2008
Devin West on ‘collateral damage,’ Francesca Grifo on science and free speech

Devin West on ‘collateral damage,’ Francesca Grifo on science and free speech

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin102408 Devin West and Francesca Grifo @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin102408.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Stories about civilian casualties inflicted by the U.S. military in Afghanistan or Iraq may be moving and troubling, but you virtually always come away with the sense that, while regrettable, such deaths are certainly always unintentional and somehow unavoidable in the […]

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October 17, 2008
Lori Minnite on ACORN & vote fraud, Bethany Albertson on the Bradley Effect

Lori Minnite on ACORN & vote fraud, Bethany Albertson on the Bradley Effect

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin101708 Lori Minnite and Bethany Albertson @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin101708.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: From the reaction of quite a bit of the mainstream media, the community organizing group ACORN is poised to steal the election for Barack Obama. Scattered allegations of voter registration fraud have been the subject of wall-to-wall TV coverage, but what […]

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October 10, 2008
David Cay Johnston on Meltdown/Bailout, Isabel MacDonald & Steve Rendall on ‘Smearcasting,’ FAIR’s Islamophobia Report

David Cay Johnston on Meltdown/Bailout, Isabel MacDonald & Steve Rendall on ‘Smearcasting,’ FAIR’s Islamophobia Report

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin101008 David Cay Johnston and Isabel MacDonald and Steve Rendall @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin101008.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: The bailout story turns again as Congress passes the White House’s bailout bill. Will reporters give up questioning the plan entirely now that it has that holy grail of “bipartisan support”? We’ll hear from one journalist who’s […]

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October 3, 2008
Phyllis Bennis on the presidential debate, Wendy Weiser on voter suppression

Phyllis Bennis on the presidential debate, Wendy Weiser on voter suppression

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin100308 Phyllis Bennis and Wendy Weiser @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin100308.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: There’s been a lot of discussion about who won or lost the September 26th presidential debate, but little discussion of how it served the voters. What was and wasn’t talked about in a debate that focused largely on war and military […]

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September 26, 2008
Eartha Jane Melzer on Ohio GOP vote suppression, Sarah Anderson on Wall Street CEO pay

Eartha Jane Melzer on Ohio GOP vote suppression, Sarah Anderson on Wall Street CEO pay

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin092608 Earth Jane Melzer and Sarah Anderson @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin092608.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Lose your house, lose your vote? A report from a new investigative journalism outfit says that Michigan Republican Party officials are planning to use a list of foreclosed homes to challenge voters on Election Day—targeting a largely poor, African-American pool […]

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September 19, 2008
James Galbraith on financial turmoil, Forrest Hylton on Bolivia crisis

James Galbraith on financial turmoil, Forrest Hylton on Bolivia crisis

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin091908 James Galbraith and Forrest Hylton @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin091908.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Unlike tendentious media debates about government aid to the poor, journalists greeted bail outs of major financial corporations with almost universal approval. We’ll talk to economist James Galbraith of the University of Texas about what the news means for regulatory policy […]

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September 12, 2008
Jim Naureckas on McCain/Palin campaign claims, George Farah on open debates

Jim Naureckas on McCain/Palin campaign claims, George Farah on open debates

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin091208 Jim Naureckas and George Farah @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin091208.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: John McCain may have fired-up the GOP base with his pick of Sarah Palin as a running mate, and his campaign’s increasingly rancorous rhetoric, but along the way his campaign has made a number of claims that beg for media scrutiny. […]

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September 5, 2008
Heidi Boghosian on convention protests, David Moore on polling

Heidi Boghosian on convention protests, David Moore on polling

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin090508 Heidi Boghoson and David Moore @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin090508.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Most of the coverage of the political conventions focused on what was going on inside the arenas; so what about what was happening outside? Crackdowns on protests, arrests of journalists, and pre-emptive house raids could provide a very different measure of […]

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August 29, 2008
Katrina Special: Colette Pichon Battle on Katrina three years later, Leigh Dingerson on New Orleans schools, Derrick Evans on the FEMA trailer tour

Katrina Special: Colette Pichon Battle on Katrina three years later, Leigh Dingerson on New Orleans schools, Derrick Evans on the FEMA trailer tour

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin082908 Colette Pichon Battle and Leigh Dingerson and Derrick Evans @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin082908.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: All eyes have been focused on Denver and the Democratic National Convention. But while the political calendar suggests the story of the day is the nomination of Barack Obama as the Democratic presidential nominee, it’s hard to […]

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August 22, 2008
Thomas Frank on ‘The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule’

Thomas Frank on ‘The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule’

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin082208 Thomas Frank @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin082208.mp3″] Download MP3 Conservative mismanagement of government is no mistake but the concerted effort of a movement that seeks to further the interests of big business and destroy government’s ability to oversee or regulate those interests. That’s the theme of best-selling author and Wall Street Journal columnist Thomas Frank’s new book, […]

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August 15, 2008
Helena Cobban on Russia/Georgia conflict, Iyanna Jones on black radio’s ‘Disappearing Voices’

Helena Cobban on Russia/Georgia conflict, Iyanna Jones on black radio’s ‘Disappearing Voices’

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin081508 Helena Cobban and Iyanna Jones @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin081508.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: “Russia bad, Georgia good” is the theme of much U.S. coverage of recent hostilities between those two countries and their battles over the breakaway Georgian territory known as South Ossetia. We’ll be joined by Helena Cobban of the website Just World […]

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