Tag Archives | CounterSpin

‘This counter-terrorism framework situates people outside of rights’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on September 11, 2026 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Samer Araabi on dissent as ‘terrorism’
‘Medicare for all is a system that can absolutely be built in the U.S.’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on September 2, 2026 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Abdullah Shihipar on Medicare for All.
‘What was criminalized here is dissent, not terrorism’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on July 29, 2026 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Dorothee Benz on Prairieland.
‘Anyone whose beliefs are inconvenient becomes a terrorist’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on July 1, 2026 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Seth Stern on criminalizing dissent.
‘It’s all about keeping wages at poverty levels to overpay their CEOs’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on April 20, 2026 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Sarah Anderson on poverty wages.
This is the only post-9/11 case seeking accountability for torture to reach a jury

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 25, 2026 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib justice.
‘The current commercial system will always fail democracy’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on July 21, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Victor Pickard on Paramount settlement.
‘Housing unaffordability is the primary cause of homelessness’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on June 20, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Farrah Hassen on criminalizing homelessness
‘Dangerous times demand dangerous music’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on June 3, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Tom Morello on music as protest.
‘The HHS Report was put out to give cover to oppose transgender healthcare’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on May 29, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Erin Reed on trans care ‘questions’.
‘I’m not seeing the horror reflected in corporate media’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on May 23, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Mara Kronenfeld on Israel’s aid blockade.
‘Our position on Palestine is not fringe’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on May 8, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

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.
‘The insurance industry is the fossil fuel industry’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on October 10, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Derek Seidman on insurance and climate.
‘Western press obscured the sheer terror of what Israel had carried out’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on October 1, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Mohamad Bazzi on Lebanon pager attacks.
They’re trying to pass laws to make dark money even darker

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on August 28, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Steve Macek on dark money.
‘We’re seeing Universities following a corporate agenda to get favor with donors’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on May 28, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Ellen Schrecker on the attack on academic freedom
‘This weaponization is meant to shift focus away from Gaza’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on April 29, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) | (Posted May 02, 2024)

CounterSpin interview with Sam on Students for Justice in Palestine.
‘Interventions laid the groundwork for the crisis in Haiti today’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on April 15, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Chris Bernadel on Haiti
‘Punishments for corporations and CEOs are just paltry’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on April 10, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Robert Weissman on Boeing scandal.
‘When you’re in a colonial situation, the colonial power initiates violence’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on January 23, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Gregory Shupak on Gaza and genocide.

Democracy Needs Public Media w/ Victor Pickard
Scott Ferguson

Victor Pickard returns to Money on the Left six years after his first appearance on the show to discuss the state of the U.S. media system under Trump 2.0. Pickard is C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and Co-Director at the Media, […]
Public Employment & Training from the Great Society to the “End of Welfare as We Know It”
Scott Ferguson

This month, Scott Ferguson speaks with Mario Rendina about the politics of public employment and training in the United States as they shifted over the course of the late 20th century. Rendina brings over thirty years of hands-on experience working within municipal government in Tampa Bay, Florida—specifically within Hillsborough County. Grounded in his extensive career […]
The Public Banking Institute
Scott Ferguson

In this episode, we speak with Walt McRee (President) and Peter Winslow (Vice President) of the Public Banking Institute (PBI) about their past and ongoing advocacy for public banking. Founded in 2011 by author Ellen Brown and a core collective of advocates, PBI aims to break the monopoly of Wall Street’s private banking system by […]