Saurav Sarkar on Starbucks Organizing
Crushing Starbucks workers’ attempts to work together is against the law—but it’s not the sort of crime elite media seem able to identify.
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Silky Shah on Detention Center Fire, Eagan Kemp on Medicare Advantage
Do Black and brown people have a right to move freely in the world? The Ciudad Juárez fire and what it tells us about immigration policy.
Norman Solomon on the Iraq Invasion, 20 Years Later
What passes for debate about why we must remain at war with whomever is designated has roots in 2003 worth studying.
Kamau Franklin on Cop City Protests
The corporate press corps seems intent on forcing a vital, important situation into old, tired and harmful frames.
Kim Knackstedt on Disability Policy, Algernon Austin on Unemployment & Race
Media interest in historic breakthroughs should extend to the barriers disabled people face in 2023, and how policies could address them.
Makani Themba on Jackson Crisis
Jackson, Mississippi, residents who have been harmed many times over are being told that the appropriate response is to take away their voice.
Ellen Schrecker on the New McCarthyism
Our past has not been fully grappled with or understood, and that has everything to do with what’s happening now.
Maritza Perez Medina on Fentanyl, Nancy Altman on Social Security
Saying how hard you want to be on “dealers” is really an admission of a failure to address a public health issue as a public health issue.
Evan Greer on the Fight for the FCC
What could be happening if Biden’s long-languishing nomination of public interest advocate Gigi Sohn were put through?
Shelby Green and Selah Goodson Bell on Utility Shutoffs & Profiteering
Electric utilities have disconnected US households more than 4 million times since the beginning of Covid, preceding the Ukraine War.
Michael Mechanic on Underfunding the IRS
The message from many politicians and their media amplifiers: Cheating on taxes is a luxury only the rich can, or should be able to, afford.
Maurice Carney on Patrice Lumumba
Lumumba’s assassination, judging by attention, has no lessons for US citizens or the press corps about the past, the present or the future.
David Sirota on Accountability Journalism
The public still look to news media to give them accurate, independently sourced and documented information to help them make decisions.
Paul Hudson on Airline Meltdown, Melissa Crow on Asylum Policy
There’s an unarticulated underpinning to elite media conversation that as a consumer, you don’t have anything called a “right.”
Best of CounterSpin 2022
CounterSpin is thankful to every activist, researcher, reporter and advocate who appeared on the show, of whom this is just a small selection.
Lisa Gilbert on the January 6 Report
The Very Smart People will tell us that what we really ought to do, what the intelligent people would do, is, well, nothing.
Richard Wiles on Fossil Fuel Lies, Rebecca Vallas on Disability Economics
The predictable harms of fossil fuels are forever “raising questions” for elite media. What would happen if they were seen as answering them?
Jen Deerinwater on Indian Child Welfare Act
Those who want to eliminate the Indian Child Welfare Act are opposed by the reality that made the Act necessary in the first place.
Nelson Lichtenstein on UC Strike, Marjorie Cohn on Evangelicals’ Supreme Court Lobbying
The struggle for pay and dignity at the University of California is part of a bigger fight about whether educators are actual workers.
Milton Allimadi on Media in Africa
The African continent as a playing field for white people to test their theories, extract resources and stage proxy wars is time-tested.
