Counterspin

    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 […] The post Phyllis Bennis on Gaza appeared first on FAIR.

Corporate media tell us to be mad at the rando taking toilet paper from Walgreens, but not the executive who’s skimming your paycheck. The post Rodrigo Camarena on Wage Theft appeared first on FAIR.

The story is mostly about the political fortunes of an individual; the huge numbers of less powerful people impacted are, at best, backdrop. The post Stephen Zunes on Menendez Indictment appeared first on FAIR.

An unprecedented labor action is underway as thousands of Midwest autoworkers working for the Big 3 went on strike at the same time. The post Lisa Xu on Auto Workers Strike appeared first on FAIR.

September 11, 2001, is the exemplar of a past that isn’t dead, or even past, and for no one more particularly than Muslims. The post Maha Hilal on Innocent Until Proven Muslim appeared first on FAIR.

Media have an active disinterest in telling the story of the Korean peninsula in anything other than static, cartoonish terms. The post Amanda Yee on Korean Travel Ban, Hyun Lee on Korea History appeared first on FAIR.

It does no disservice to the education battles of the current day to connect them to previous battles and conversations. The post Alfie Kohn, Diane Ravitch and Kevin Kumashiro on Education appeared first on FAIR.

The ADA demands all kinds of attention, every day—not a once a year pat on the back about "how far we’ve come." The post Kehsi Iman Wilson on Americans with Disabilities Act appeared first on FAIR.

Unlike elite media’s misty memories, the lawsuit is a stubborn indication that those responsible for Abu Ghraib haven't been called to account. The post Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib Torture Lawsuit, Thomas Germain on Online History Destruction appeared first on FAIR.

Facial recognition, a technology that has been proven wrong, has been deemed harmful, in principle and in practice, for years now. The post Shankar Narayan on Facial Misrecognition, Braxton Brewington on Student Debt Abolition appeared first on FAIR.

Elite media are deeply accustomed to calling any union action a harm, and any company acknowledgment of workers’ value a concession. The post Teddy Ostrow on UPS/Teamsters Agreement, Matthew Cunningham-Cook on GOP Climate Sabotage appeared first on FAIR.

Advocates have long declared that Biden’s asylum restrictions are not just harmful but unlawful. And a federal judge has just agreed. The post Melissa Crow on Asylum Restrictions, Dave Zirin on NYT’s Vanishing Sports Section appeared first on FAIR.

Say Her Name is about adding Black women to our understanding of police violence—to help make our response more meaningful and impactful. The post Kevin Minofu on Say Her Name appeared first on FAIR.

White supremacy and economic policy are completely different stories for the press, but not for the people. The post Arlene Martínez on Corporate Subsidies, Florín Nájera-Uresti on Journalism Preservation appeared first on FAIR.

There is no way to fight climate disruption without fighting climate disrupters. The post Emily Sanders on How Not to Interview an Oil CEO, Kaufman & Bozuwa on Fighting Climate Disrupters appeared first on FAIR.

The impacts of the Dobbs ruling are still reverberating, as is the organized pushback that we can learn about and support. The post Taryn Abbassian and Others on Dobbs One Year Later appeared first on FAIR.

When Daniel Ellsberg died, media burnished their own reputation as truth-tellers while somehow dishonoring the practice of truth-telling. The post Nancy Altman on GOP Social Security Attack, Daniel Ellsberg Revisited appeared first on FAIR.

Narrative is an important tool for folks looking to change the world for the better, in part by changing the stories we tell one another. The post Sonali Kolhatkar on the Power of Narrative appeared first on FAIR.

What will the legalization, and profitizing, of marijuana mean for the people and communities most harmed by its criminalization? The post Tauhid Chappell on Cannabis Justice, Evan Greer on Kids Online Safety Act appeared first on FAIR.

Asian-American students are being used as the face of attempts to eliminate affirmative action or race-consciousness in college admissions. The post Jeff Chang & Jeannie Park on Asian Americans and Affirmative Action appeared first on FAIR.