Chip Gibbons on the Right to Protest
US journalists invoke the First Amendment a lot, but not so much when it extends to regular folks saying NO to the US government.
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Best of CounterSpin 2023
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Wadie Said on the New McCarthyism
Powerful institutions, including the media, combine a selective understanding of free expression with a vehement desire to enforce it.
Richard Wiles & Matthew Cunningham-Cook on Climate Disruption Filtered Through Corporate Media
We can’t have a public conversation about how fossil fuels cause climate disruption in a corporate media moneyed by fossil fuel companies.
Sonya Meyerson-Knox on Jewish Voice for Peace
The devastation of Gaza, and the vehement efforts to silence anyone who wants to challenge it, is the story for today.
Melissa Gira Grant on Abortion Rights & Politics
Too many outlets seem to have trouble shaking the framing of abortion as a “controversy,” or as posing problems for this or that politician.
Mark Weisbrot on Argentina’s Javier Milei
Argentina’s new president questions the death toll of the country’s military dictatorship and calls climate change a “lie of socialism.”
Scott Burris on US v. Rahimi
The question is whether the Court’s conservative majority can use its special brand of backwards-looking to determine this country’s future.
Jamil Dakwar on US & Human Rights, Matt Gertz on Mike Johnson
Shouldn’t the press corps be actively involved in informing us about the person third in line for the presidency?
Raed Jarrar on Biden & Saudi Arabia, Joe Torres on Tulsa Massacre
“The newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
Peter Maybarduk on Paxlovid, Maya Schenwar on Grassroots Journalism
Paxlovid’s “transition” to the commercial market entails hiking the cost of the treatment to 100 times the cost of production.
Christopher Bosso on Food Assistance, Barbara Briggs on Workplace Disasters
The primary food aid program, SNAP, while the constant target of the racist, drown-government-in-the-bathtub crowd, keeps on keeping on.
Phyllis Bennis on Gaza
This week on CounterSpin: In the wake of the October 7 attacks by Hamas and the ensuing bombing campaign from Israel on the Gaza Strip, many people were surprised that CNN‘s Fareed Zakaria aired an interview with a Palestinian activist who frankly described the daily human rights violations in Gaza, the right of […]
Rodrigo Camarena on Wage Theft
Corporate media tell us to be mad at the rando taking toilet paper from Walgreens, but not the executive who’s skimming your paycheck.
Stephen Zunes on Menendez Indictment
The story is mostly about the political fortunes of an individual; the huge numbers of less powerful people impacted are, at best, backdrop.
Lisa Xu on Auto Workers Strike
An unprecedented labor action is underway as thousands of Midwest autoworkers working for the Big 3 went on strike at the same time.
Maha Hilal on Innocent Until Proven Muslim
September 11, 2001, is the exemplar of a past that isn’t dead, or even past, and for no one more particularly than Muslims.
Amanda Yee on Korean Travel Ban, Hyun Lee on Korea History
Media have an active disinterest in telling the story of the Korean peninsula in anything other than static, cartoonish terms.
Alfie Kohn, Diane Ravitch and Kevin Kumashiro on Education
It does no disservice to the education battles of the current day to connect them to previous battles and conversations.
Kehsi Iman Wilson on Americans with Disabilities Act
The ADA demands all kinds of attention, every day—not a once a year pat on the back about “how far we’ve come.”
