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The hidden story: Israeli ‘aid’ is part of genocide plan
The victims had gathered in hopes of finding food for themselves and their families, following a nearly three-month total Israeli blockade of the territory. At least 31 people were killed; one Palestinian was also killed by Israeli fire the same day at another distribution site in central Gaza.
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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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One side routinely uses human shields in Gaza—but not the side that’s usually blamed
Since the earliest days of the post–October 7 U.S./Israeli genocide in Gaza, corporate media outlets have claimed that Hamas uses Palestinian civilians as human shields.
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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.
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Do Mob wars help crime victims?
Understanding media coverage of healthcare price battles.
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‘The fact that she had that miscarriage was enough to justify arresting her’: CounterSpin interview with Karen Thompson on criminalizing pregnancy
Janine Jackson interviewed Pregnancy Justice’s Karen Thompson about criminalizing pregnancy for the April 25, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
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Feds threaten Wikipedia after Right-Wing media uproar
The Trump administration is very upset with Wikipedia, the collaboratively edited online encyclopedia.
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As Israel openly declares starvation as a weapon, media still hesitate to blame it for famine
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on March 2 that “Israel has decided to stop letting goods and supplies into Gaza,” where the ongoing Israeli genocide, with the loyal backing of the United States, has officially killed more than 51,000 Palestinians since October 2023.
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‘This is an all-out war on the First Amendment’
CounterSpin interview with Jessica González on Trump’s FCC.
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With Section 230 repeal, Dems and media offer Trump new censorship tools
In a move that threatens to constrain online communication, congressional Democrats are partnering with their Republican counterparts to repeal a niche but crucial internet law.
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Israel kills Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat as U.S. media look away
The Israeli military killed Hossam Shabat, a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist and correspondent for Al Jazeera and Drop Site News, on Monday, March 24.
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‘A small group of people wanted to do away with Social Security from the beginning’
CounterSpin interview with Nancy Altman on Social Security attacks.
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In return to ‘war on terror’ propaganda, Murdoch cheers suppression of protest
The arrest and possible deportation of Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, a Green Card holder with a student visa, for his organizing role at Gaza solidarity protests last year has sent shockwaves throughout American society.
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‘Cultural Marxism’: The mainstreaming of a Nazi trope
When Norwegian right-winger Anders Breivik invoked “cultural Marxism” as the reason for his 77-person killing spree in 2011, many observers placed the notion in the same category as the killer—the fringe.
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Did Left journalists buy into Right-wing ideology–or were they bought?
What is truly more urgent is the fact that a dangerous media class is taking advantage of this media vacuum, at the expense of regular people.
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Media obscure message of Oscar-winning documentary ‘No Other Land’
When No Other Land won this year’s Academy Award for best documentary feature, corporate media outlets didn’t exactly roll out the red carpet.
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U.S. media’s sorry history of abetting immigration panics
Donald Trump’s second presidential term has been underway for almost two months now, and every day brings headlines testifying to his determination to fulfil his promise of mass deportation of immigrants.