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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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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 1, 2008
Juan Cole on Iraq/Afghanistan, Todd Tucker on WTO talks

Juan Cole on Iraq/Afghanistan, Todd Tucker on WTO talks

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin080108 Juan Cole and Todd Tucker @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin080108.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: The media debate on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars seems to rest on the assumption that the troop surge in Iraq has “worked,” and more troops in Afghanistan would help turn that conflict in the favor of U.S. and NATO forces. […]

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July 25, 2008
Michael Ratner on Ali al-Marri, Jonathan Tasini on minimum wage

Michael Ratner on Ali al-Marri, Jonathan Tasini on minimum wage

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin072508 Michael Ratner and Jonathan Tasini @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin072508.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Many people have probably never heard of Ali al-Marri. A search of major media turned up a scant handful of mentions. Arrested after September 11, 2001, al-Marri was declared an enemy combatant before his trial—and he has been in a legal […]

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July 1, 2008

Sidebar: An ‘Elitist’ by Any Other Name

[Note: This is a sidebar to “Obama the Snob?: Hanging the ‘elitist’ label on another Democratic candidate“] It’s “not always easy to say exactly who, or what, constitutes the elite,” pointed out New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller (5/25/08). But it’s not that hard to see what message is being sent by those who level […]

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July 1, 2008

Fareed Zakaria, Spokesperson for the Global Elite

Fareed Zakaria, now the highly influential editor of Newsweek International, author of The Post-American World, and host of Fareed Zakaria GPS, constructed a landmark of unintended irony when he regally pronounced that “the downtrodden beg to differ” with protesters of corporate globalization (Foreign Affairs, 12/13/99). Those who demonstrated against the World Trade Organization at the […]

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June 20, 2008
Tyson Slocum on offshore drilling, Matthew Lasar on the Red Lion decision

Tyson Slocum on offshore drilling, Matthew Lasar on the Red Lion decision

[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin062008 Tyson Slocum and Matthew Lasar @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin062008.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: John McCain says the ban on oil drilling of the U.S. coast should be lifted, to increase oil production and lower prices. Drilling opponents say the drilling won’t lower prices and will endanger environments. Who’s right? Mainstream reporting is little help, […]

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April 11, 2008
Mark Weisbrot on Colombia trade deal, Rick Perlstein on John McCain

Mark Weisbrot on Colombia trade deal, Rick Perlstein on John McCain

Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic and Policy Research on George W. Bush and his proposed trade deal with Colombia. Also this week: How are John McCain and the Republican Party getting along these days? A conversation with journalist and author Rick Perlstein, who covered this story for the Nation magazine.

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March 28, 2008
Dean Baker on the financial crisis, Keith Poole on Voteview

Dean Baker on the financial crisis, Keith Poole on Voteview

This week on CounterSpin: Establishment media and the crisis in the U.S. housing market, with economist Dean Barker from the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Also on the program: Recently the press has dedicated a lot of time and energy to conversation about Obama’s voting record. Keith Poole, Professor at University of California at San Diego and co-founder of Voteview, joins for a discussion on this and more.

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January 28, 2008

NYT Falls for White House Spin on Economy

  The New York Times (1/28/08) claimed in a front-page story that George W. Bush’s economic growth record “would be the envy of most presidents.” This claim has no basis in fact and should be corrected by the newspaper. The assertion was part of a “White House Memo” by Sheryl Gay Stolberg. Opening with the […]

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January 11, 2008
Peter Hart on 2008 primaries, Kali Akuno on New Orleans public housing

Peter Hart on 2008 primaries, Kali Akuno on New Orleans public housing

This week on CounterSpin: Bad election coverage in the recent Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, with CounterSpin’s own Peter Hart. Also on the program: Kali Akuno discusses corporate media backtracking post-Katrina and the latest debate surrounding the destruction of public housing in New Orleans.

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November 16, 2007
Robert Parry on ‘Why We Write,’ Karlos Schmieder on gentrification

Robert Parry on ‘Why We Write,’ Karlos Schmieder on gentrification

Journalist Bob Parry, founder of the site Consortiumnews.com, has broken some of the most important stories in the last thirty years. This week he joins CounterSpin to talk about why he writes. Also on the program: New research highlights a skewed presentation of poor communities in Bay Area media, one that oversells gentrification as the solution. We’ll talk to Karlos Schmieder from Oakland-based Youth Media Council about the report.

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October 5, 2007
Cynthia Boaz on Burma, Dean Baker on Social Security

Cynthia Boaz on Burma, Dean Baker on Social Security

This week on CounterSpin: Professor Cynthia Boaz, a professor at SUNY Brockport and academic advisor to the International Center on Non-Violent Conflict, joins to discuss Burma and the press. Also on the show: The corporate media conversation surrounding Social Security, with Dean Baker from the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

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September 21, 2007
William Greider on Alan Greenspan, Anthony Arnove on Iraq contractors

William Greider on Alan Greenspan, Anthony Arnove on Iraq contractors

The Nation correspondent William Greider joins for a conversation about former Federal Reserve chair Alan Greenspan, whose new memoir seeks to put some space between himself and the Bush White House. Also on the show: The Iraqi government and a recent shooting in Baghdad with Anthony Arnove, author of the book Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal.

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September 1, 2007

Cheerleading for Inequality

At this point, it is no longer possible to contest the fact that there has been an enormous upward redistribution of income since 1980. Dozens of economists have reached the same conclusion, using different methodologies and different data sets (e.g., The State of Working America, 2006-07, Lawrence Mishel et al.; “Where Did the Productivity Growth […]

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