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‘There should never be losers and winners when it comes to food’
CounterSpin interview with Gina Plata-Nino on food aid cuts.
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‘What was criminalized here is dissent, not terrorism’
CounterSpin interview with Dorothee Benz on Prairieland.
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‘Anyone whose beliefs are inconvenient becomes a terrorist’
CounterSpin interview with Seth Stern on criminalizing dissent.
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Slashing climate, weather and ocean research to pay for 32 hours of Iran war
The recently proposed budget from the Trump administration includes a $1.6 billion cut to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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‘It’s all about keeping wages at poverty levels to overpay their CEOs’
CounterSpin interview with Sarah Anderson on poverty wages.
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This is the only post-9/11 case seeking accountability for torture to reach a jury
CounterSpin interview with Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib justice.
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‘Is it worth running a race where the prize is some dystopian future?’
CounterSpin interview with Mitch Jones on AI vs. environment.
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Nonprofits purge websites of diversity language in futile attempt to appease MAGA inquisitors
Ellis Simani found that over a thousand nonprofits had removed or minimized language tied to race, inequity and historically disadvantaged communities in their mission statements, with some also scrubbing DEI language from their websites, job titles and, in some cases, even the group’s name.
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![Variety (12/17/25): FCC chair Brendan Carr “suggested that he was simply holding broadcasters to a legally required ‘public interest standard’ when he…threatened ABC and its affiliates if they did not ‘take action’ on [talk host Jimmy] Kimmel.”](https://mronline.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Variety-Carr-Featured-200x200.png)
FCC fights First Amendment and ‘democracy itself’
Allowing allegedly local broadcast firms to acquire even more stations—in markets where they already have stations, and in new cities—will put control over news in still fewer, more corporate hands. And it will decrease the numbers of local journalists reporting on communities they actually live in.
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Press remembers oldest survivor of Tulsa Massacre—but not press’s role in massacre
As Joe Torres, co-author of “News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media”, recounted, the local white-owned press didn’t just fuel the massacre; it also helped cover it up.
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50-year mortgages: Trump’s ‘bad deal’ gets respectful hearing from Press
Trump tried to walk back the importance of the 50-year mortgage plan he’d already promoted online, and that Pulte called a “complete game changer”—telling Fox he just thought it might “help a little bit.”
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Media in hiding from the most urgent questions of the day
Trump has commandeered Washington, DC, putting National Guard and local police in the streets because DC is not a state, and so it’s the only place he could take over in this way. He’s brandishing a patently false pretense that the district is facing a crime crisis. The reality—and we do remember reality, right?—is that Washington, DC, has its lowest violent crime rate in 30 years.
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‘The current commercial system will always fail democracy’
CounterSpin interview with Victor Pickard on Paramount settlement.
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‘Media and corporate power structures see genuine Democracy as a terrible danger’
CounterSpin interview with Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon on Mamdani and the Democrats.
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‘Housing unaffordability is the primary cause of homelessness’
CounterSpin interview with Farrah Hassen on criminalizing homelessness
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‘Dangerous times demand dangerous music’
CounterSpin interview with Tom Morello on music as protest.
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‘The HHS Report was put out to give cover to oppose transgender healthcare’
CounterSpin interview with Erin Reed on trans care ‘questions’.
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‘I’m not seeing the horror reflected in corporate media’
CounterSpin interview with Mara Kronenfeld on Israel’s aid blockade.
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‘Black history is American history’
CounterSpin interview with Tanya Clay House on erasing history.
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‘Our position on Palestine is not fringe’
Janine Jackson interviewed CODEPINK’s Danaka Katovich about attacks on activists for the May 2, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.