Counterspin

Alex Jones' lawyer says talking about his white supremacism would "distract from the main issues." What are the "main issues" about Jones? The post Angelo Carusone on Alex Jones Trial, Karl Grossman on Nuclear War appeared first on FAIR.

This week on CounterSpin: The crises we face right now in the US—a nominally democratic political process that’s strangled by white supremacist values, a corporate profiteering system that mindlessly overrides human needs to treat the environment as just another “input”—are terrible, but not, precisely, new. People have fought against these ideas in various forms before; […] The post Luke Harris and Joe Torres on America’s Racist Legacy appeared first on FAIR.

There's a way to tell the story of heat waves that connects to policy and planning, but that centers human beings. The post Vivek Shandas on Climate Disruption & Heat Waves, Jamie Kalven on Laquan McDonald Coverup appeared first on FAIR.

This week on CounterSpin: The internet has changed the way we communicate, access information and even organize, which means concerns about digital privacy are concerns about privacy, period. In the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, allowing for the criminalization of abortion, our ability to safely access information and health care […] The post Nora Benavidez on Post-Roe Data Privacy, Dorothee Benz on January 6 Insurrection appeared first on FAIR.

This week on CounterSpin: The Supreme Court’s reversal on abortion rights is so actually and potentially devastating that it’s hard to know where to look. It’s worth tracing things back—Katherine Stewart in the Guardian, among others, walks us through how, at a time when most Protestant Republicans, including the Southern Baptist Convention, hailed the liberalization […] The post Jessica Mason Pieklo on Abortion Rights, Preston Mitchum on Reproductive Justice appeared first on FAIR.

A Supreme Court led by Chief Justice John Roberts has gutted multiple legally and societally established precedents. The post Adele Stan & Elliot Mincberg on John Roberts, Chip Gibbons on Why Assange Matters appeared first on FAIR.

  This week on CounterSpin: Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the majority opinion on Kennedy v. Bremerton that “the Constitution and the best of our traditions counsel mutual respect and tolerance, not censorship and suppression, for religious and nonreligious views alike.” The case was about whether there was a problem with a Washington […] The post Dave Zirin on Football Prayer Ruling, Howard Bryant on Black Athletes & Social Change appeared first on FAIR.

It's hard to parse corporate media coverage of Biden's Saudi visit, because that coverage obscures rather than illuminates what's going on. The post Raed Jarrar on Biden’s Saudi Trip, Lindsay Koshgarian on People Over Pentagon appeared first on FAIR.

It's 40 years since Vincent Chin's murder, with a depressingly resonant context of anti-Asian hatred and scapegoating, The post Helen Zia on Vincent Chin Legacy, Alec Karakatsanis on Chesa Boudin Recall appeared first on FAIR.

There are people and policies, with names, preventing developing countries from accessing life-saving Covid vaccines. The post Lori Wallach on Vaccine Equity, Steffie Woolhandler on Insurance & Covid appeared first on FAIR.

While alternative media are up in arms about the Supreme Court's ruling, corporate news media don't seem to think there's much to see there. The post Liliana Segura on Supreme Court v. Innocence appeared first on FAIR.

  This week on CounterSpin: CBS News‘ website featured a story about the “grim task” of planning funerals for 19 children—shot dead, along with two teachers, in a Texas elementary school on May 24—right next to a story about Oklahoma’s governor signing the country’s strictest abortion ban, the prominent sign behind him declaring “life is […] The post Igor Volsky on Ending Gun Violence, Pat Elder on Junior ROTC appeared first on FAIR.

The Buffalo killer is a white supremacist who believes there's a plot run by Jews to "replace" white people with Black and brown people. The post Matt Gertz, Eric K. Ward on the Buffalo Massacre & ‘Replacement Theory’ appeared first on FAIR.

Elite media are interested in abortion as an issue, but it is not understood as a human right but rather as a partisan football. The post Julie Hollar on Roe Reversal, Tesnim Zekeria on Baby Formula Shortage appeared first on FAIR.

A new website uses critical race theory as a prism to explore the range of threats to multi-racial democracy and our ability to fight for it. The post Chris Lehmann on Multi-Racial Democracy, Mike Rispoli on Funding Local News appeared first on FAIR.

"If it bleeds, it leads" journalism lets news outlets look as though they're tracking an important event in real time. The post Josmar Trujillo on Hyper-Policing appeared first on FAIR.

Who pays taxes, how much, and why? We revisit two conversations about tax policy racism and taxing the rich on this week's show. The post Dorothy A. Brown and Dean Baker on Tax Policy appeared first on FAIR.

The Philadelphia Inquirer's "A More Perfect Union" project is aimed at examining racism in US institutions, including media institutions. The post Layla A. Jones on ‘Lights. Camera. Crime’ appeared first on FAIR.

  This week on CounterSpin: He wanted to go to the Capitol on January 6, Donald Trump tells the Washington Post, but the Secret Service wouldn’t let him. He hated the violence, and was furious Nancy Pelosi wasn’t putting a stop to it. He doesn’t remember getting many phone calls, and he didn’t destroy any […] The post Marjorie Cohn on Prosecuting Trump, Mike Liszewski on Marijuana Justice appeared first on FAIR.

Will we keep having a Supreme Court justice declaring himself "one being" with a spouse who declares the 2020 election an "obvious fraud"? The post Sarah Lipton-Lubet on Ginni Thomas Conflict, Dave Maass on Transparency and Journalism appeared first on FAIR.