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‘You Fearmonger as a Way to Get Viewers’ - Sandy Cioffi on Nigeria, the other...
Photo Credit: Sweet Crude/Sandycioffi.com It’s hard to imagine a worse situation than the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, but the Niger delta in Nigeria has by some accounts suffered spills equaling...
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PlayStop pop out X Download MP3 Welcome to the Best Of CounterSpin for 2010. We think all of our shows are important, and shed some light on how media work and the stories they tell. But, at the end...
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‘Blindly Accepting What U.S. Officials Were Telling Them’ - CounterSpin...
A military attack on Iran is under increasing discussion in U.S. corridors of power. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has called for a war to “neuter” the Iranian regime, and former CIA chief Michael...
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PlayStop pop out X Download MP3 This week we’ll be bringing you just some of the highlights from the past year. We’ve had guests bringing us something other than the usual corporate media line on...
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It’s All of Us; Except the 1 Percent - Frances Fox Piven on poverty and...
Frances Fox Piven–Photo Credit: Mediait The Occupy movement has garnered, if not the respect, at least the acknowledgement of a corporate press corps inclined for any number of reasons to ignore it....
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Military Intervention in Africa - Emira Woods on Kony 2012
Photo Credit: Flickr Creative Commons/Chris Waldeck The viral video Kony 2012, a call by the U.S.-based group Invisible Children to “make famous” the brutal African warlord Joseph Kony and capture him...
View Article‘There’s Way Too Much of a History of Lying’ - Dana Frank on Honduras
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency was reportedly involved in the May 11 killing of four innocent civilians on Honduras’ Mosquito Coast. The operation caused condemnation in Honduras, and scrambling...
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‘You Have a Picture; See How Complex It Is?’ - 'First Latina' Maria Hinjosa...
Maria Hinojosa–Photo Credit: NPR/Michael Paras Maria Hinojosa, the founding host of public radio’s Latino USA, was the first Latina reporter at NPR, the first Latina correspondent on CNN, the first...
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‘The People Who Supported Austerity Have Been Disproven By Facts’ -...
When there are austerity protests in Europe, New York Times headlines like “Markets Falter in Europe Amid Protests on Austerity” (9/27/12) and “Markets Tumble on Unrest in Greece and Spain” (9/27/12)...
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Jodi Jacobson on Hobby Lobby, Kate Sheppard on Oil Spills
PlayStop pop out X Download MP3 (right click) This week on CounterSpin: The Supreme Court hears the Hobby Lobby case, which is about women’s health, reproductive rights and claims of religious...
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