CounterSpin

How does the New York Times’ assertion that “what Israel is fighting to defend is a society that values human life” stand up now?

Elite reporters are so removed from daily reality that they assume a raise in wages means fast food employees have to lose their jobs.

US journalists invoke the First Amendment a lot, but not so much when it extends to regular folks saying NO to the US government.

CounterSpin is thankful to all the activists, researchers, reporters and advocates who appear on the show to help us see the world more clearly.

Powerful institutions, including the media, combine a selective understanding of free expression with a vehement desire to enforce it.

We can't have a public conversation about how fossil fuels cause climate disruption in a corporate media moneyed by fossil fuel companies.

The devastation of Gaza, and the vehement efforts to silence anyone who wants to challenge it, is the story for today.

Too many outlets seem to have trouble shaking the framing of abortion as a "controversy," or as posing problems for this or that politician.

Argentina's new president questions the death toll of the country's military dictatorship and calls climate change a “lie of socialism.”

The question is whether the Court’s conservative majority can use its special brand of backwards-looking to determine this country’s future.