Recentering the Debate Over ‘Greenland’ Begins With Calling Kalaallit Nunaat by Its Actual Name
The message reporters get when they actually talk to the nation’s citizens is that Kalaallit Nunaat is not a piece of property to be sold or swapped.
‘COPs Are About the Public vs. Politicians and Their Corporate Interests’:
CounterSpin interview with Jean Su on COP30 narratives
“It’s the people, it’s the citizenry of the world who are going toe to toe with the handful of politicians who are driving disastrous decisions for us.”
‘If Energy Transfer Prevails, This Could Really Embolden Other Corporations’:
CounterSpin interview with Kirk Herbertson on anti-environmental lawsuit
“This is a free speech issue that in normal times would be a no-brainer.”
Matt Gertz on Trump Trial Verdict, Kandi Mossett on Dakota Access Struggle
It is a moment to examine the right-wing media that have fomented this scary nonsense, but also to look to reporting from the so-called “mainstream” to go beyond the “some say, others differ” pablum we often see.
‘A Crucial Part of Colonization Is Taking Our Children’
“They say that this is about protecting Native children, but that’s not what it is. It’s about overturning our sovereignty.”
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.
‘We Could Be Living in the Future We All Dream About’
Janine Jackson interviewed Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso about her film Powerlands for the September 2, 2022, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Janine Jackson: Powerlands is an award-winning documentary film about resource extraction and its impacts on Indigenous communities around the world. But if that’s all we, as watchers, take […]
Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso on Indigenous Resistance, Alex Vitale on the End of Policing
The film Powerlands covers Indigenous people around the world, and the resource extraction stealing their water, minerals and homelands.
Progressive Media Promoted a False Story of ‘Conflict Beef’ From Nicaragua
Misleading and inaccurate reports about Nicaraguan beef could have drastic consequences for that country when it is already struggling to deal with US sanctions, the pandemic and the aftermath of two damaging hurricanes.
Canadian Media Advocate Continued Domination of Indigenous Peoples
Editorials omitted crucial information about the status of Wet’suwet’en territory and United Nations positions on Indigenous self-determination, cherry-picked aspects of Canadian law that serve their arguments, and endorsed state repression of land defenders and their supporters irrespective of the violence this would entail.
Paul Paz y Miño, Saqib Bhatti & Beverly Bell on Environmental Justice & Cross-National Solidarity
There will only be an increasing number of frontline struggles between extractive, climate-disrupting industry and those willing to stand up to it. Corporate media’s inadequate attention, and unwillingness to truly call out the moneyed interests causing present and future harms, make them more often part of the problem than the solution.
Protectors of Mauna Kea Are Fighting Colonialism, Not Science
At the heart of the Mauna Kea action is a challenge not only to a telescope, but to capital and the pursuit of unmitigated industrial growth at any cost. It’s no wonder, then, that when corporate-owned media are tasked with examining this movement, their limitations rear their heads.
Genocide, a Casino… What’s the Difference?
A Washington Post report on a lawsuit by the Miami Indian tribe to regain ancestral lands in Illinois (2/13/01) severely trivialized the genocide and ethnic cleansing faced by Native Americans. Post reporter William Claiborne, attempting to put the dispute in context, wrote: As in similar Indian property claims that have been growing in number across […]
