CounterSpin, the weekly radio program of the media watch group FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting), provides a critical examination of the major stories every week, and exposes what the mainstream media might have missed in their own coverage. CounterSpin exposes and highlights biased and inaccurate news; censored stories; sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia and ableism in the news; the power of corporate influence; gaffes and goofs by leading TV pundits; TV news’ narrow political spectrum; attacks on free speech; and more.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 6 days 19 hours 44 minutes
‘This Is an Apartheid Proposal and It’s a Nonstarter’
"We are looking at a situation where the two-state solution may no longer be possible, and it may be time for a struggle for equal rights between Palestinians and Israelis in the entire land from the river to the sea."
Omar Baddar on Israel/Palestine ‘Peace’ Plan, Rainey Reitman on Greenwald Persecution
MP3 Link This week on CounterSpin: It is strange to think that you could create a plan to shape the relationship between two entities, in consultation with one but not the other, and then not just declare it, yourself, a “win-win,
‘This Is About Making a Very Large Number of Indians Second-Class Citizens’
"What level of state violence is going to be seen as tolerable? Because these protests are not going anywhere."
The New York Times Endorsement Has Often Been a Boost for the Unendorsed
Election Focus 2020: The New York Times has a distinctly poor record of picking winning candidates, often making tragically comical predictions and assertions in its endorsements.
‘The Continuation of This Neocolonial System Is Not Being Dismantled’
"This is really an assault against the self-determination of countries when they try to enact responsible environmental policies, or other kinds of policies in the public interest."
‘This Type of Surveillance Threatens Us All’
"In the last decade alone, they've spied on Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, Abolish ICE movements, Palestinian solidarity movements, environmental movements. Obviously, that's only the tip of the iceberg."
Vijay Prashad on India Demonstrations, Manuel Perez-Rocha on NAFTA 2.0
The far-right Modi government's discriminatory ideas around citizenship have been a trigger for the massive demonstrations, but our guest explains that is not the whole story.
‘This Is Already a Hot War the US Is Prosecuting Against Iran’
"This, I think, is one of the more central and deeper and troubling assumptions in imperialist media, that the United States and its partners are allowed to kill whomever they want, wherever they want, and no resistance to that is legitimate."
‘The Driving Force Is to Help Polluters Get Their Permits Faster’
"The upshot is that climate will just be ignored, as if climate change is not happening, when it comes to environmental reviews moving forward."
Chip Gibbons on FBI vs. 1st Amendment
The ability of citizens to speak out against injustice is a living, vital tool; interference in political expression by the state cuts democracy off at the root.