Sinopsis
CounterSpin, FAIRs weekly radio show, provides a critical examination of the major stories every week, and exposes what the mainstream media might have missed in their own coverage.
Episodios
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Cathy Cowan Becker on Insurance and Climate Disasters, Aviva Chomsky (2016) on Workers’ Voices
29/08/2025 Duración: 27minYou buy insurance in case something bad happens—like a fire, or a flood. But if that fire or flood is driven by climate disruption? Well, wait a minute.
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Joseph Torres on the FCC and Structural Racism
22/08/2025 Duración: 27minThe White House’s assaults on the press corps are part of, and not ancillary to, their direct assaults on Black and brown people.
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Ari Berman on Voting Rights Erasure
15/08/2025 Duración: 27minVoting: Everyone gets a voice; that’s what makes us different, special and better. Is that ideal being subverted? Or have we misunderstood it all along?
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Raeghn Draper on Tipped Workers, Pete Tucker on DC Stadium
08/08/2025 Duración: 27minElite news media transmit the weird worldview that it’s appropriate to force tipped workers to please and appease patrons in order to survive.
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‘The Fact That It’s Happening Shouldn’t Be a Surprise’: CounterSpin interview with Ari Paul on genocide in Gaza
07/08/2025 Duración: 11min"I think it's a success of Israel's control of the narrative that sometimes it's really not well understood that the occupation is central to all this."
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‘Criminalizing Homelessness Only Perpetuates It’: CounterSpin interview with Scout Katovich on criminalizing poverty
07/08/2025 Duración: 11min"The pitting against each other of people who lack housing and people who have housing is so insidious and counterproductive."
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Ari Paul on Genocide in Gaza, Scout Katovich on Criminalizing Poverty
01/08/2025 Duración: 27minCorporate media are now gesturing toward engaging questions of Israeli war crimes against Palestinians. But what does that amount to at this late date?
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Thom Hartmann on Epstein & MAGA, Han Shan (2009) on Ken Saro-Wiwa
25/07/2025 Duración: 27minTo tell this as a tale about two uniquely bad men is a terrible disservice to a story of the systemic criminal victimization of women.
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Iman Abid on the Economy of Genocide, Victor Pickard on Paramount Settlement
18/07/2025 Duración: 27minThe UN's Albanese has long opposed Israel’s genocide of Palestinians—but what broke US warmongers was her naming corporations profiting from that genocide.
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Silky Shah on Mass Deportation
11/07/2025 Duración: 27minAlong with many other hate-driven harms, the budget bill puts Stephen Miller’s cruel and bizarre mass deportation plan on steroids.
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Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon on Mamdani and the Democrats
04/07/2025 Duración: 27minElite news media are Trojan-horsing their hatred for any ideas that threaten their ill-gotten gains, via very deep “concerns” about Zohran Mamdani as a person.
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Adam Johnson on Media in War Mode
27/06/2025 Duración: 27minUS corporate media in war mode are a force to reckon with. We do some reckoning with media analyst Adam Johnson.
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Michael Galant on Sanctions & Immigration, LaToya Parker on Budget’s Racial Impacts
20/06/2025 Duración: 27minNews media could help explain immigration by grappling with the role of conditions the US has largely created in the places people are driven from.
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Chip Gibbons on Freeing Mahmoud Khalil, Farrah Hassen on Criminalizing Homelessness
13/06/2025 Duración: 27minThere’s an important legal development in the case of student activist Mahmoud Khalil, held without warrant since March for voicing support for Palestinian lives.
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Jeff Hauser on DOGE After Musk, Katya Schwenk on Boeing Deal
06/06/2025 Duración: 27minReports are that Elon Musk is going back to make Tesla great again. We’ll talk about how to miss Musk when he won’t go away.
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Tom Morello on Music as Protest
30/05/2025 Duración: 27minTom Morello's music has always been intertwined with his activism and advocacy for social, racial and economic justice.
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Bryce Covert on Work Requirements, Erin Reed on Trans Care ‘Questions’
23/05/2025 Duración: 27minThe feint Congress is using to cut Medicare—we’re just forcing recipients to work, like they should—is obvious, age-old and long-disproven.
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Mara Kronenfeld on Israel’s Aid Blockade
16/05/2025 Duración: 27minMillions around the world ask every day what it will take to awaken the conscience of leaders to stop the genocide of Palestinians.
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Bartlett Naylor on Meme Coin Grift, Ashley Nunes on Public Land Selloff
09/05/2025 Duración: 27minOur lack of knowledge of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency will only hurt us in our response to the effects that the dealings around that stuff are having on our lives.
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Tanya Clay House on Freedom to Learn, Danaka Katovich on Attacks on Activists
02/05/2025 Duración: 27minThe Trump White House seeks to denounce and derail multiracial democracy—in part by erasing the history of Black people in this country.