Counterspin

The Very Smart People will tell us that what we really ought to do, what the intelligent people would do, is, well, nothing. The post Lisa Gilbert on the January 6 Report appeared first on FAIR.

Those who want to eliminate the Indian Child Welfare Act are opposed by the reality that made the Act necessary in the first place. The post Jen Deerinwater on Indian Child Welfare Act appeared first on FAIR.

The struggle for pay and dignity at the University of California is part of a bigger fight about whether educators are actual workers. The post Nelson Lichtenstein on UC Strike, Marjorie Cohn on Evangelicals’ Supreme Court Lobbying appeared first on FAIR.

The African continent as a playing field for white people to test their theories, extract resources and stage proxy wars is time-tested. The post Milton Allimadi on Media in Africa appeared first on FAIR.

It's hard not to imagine the use that a differently focused press corps might make of Brazil's change of direction. The post Brian Mier on Lula Election Victory appeared first on FAIR.

The affordable housing crisis is not just capitalism run amok, because that doesn't happen without government involvement. The post Gene Slater on Housing Crisis, Rakeen Mabud on Inflation Coverage appeared first on FAIR.

US news media ignore the role US intervention has played throughout Haitian history in order to push for the same sort of intervention again. The post Jake Johnston on Haiti Intervention, Jeannie Park on Harvard Affirmative Action appeared first on FAIR.

Overt, proud-of-it bias has shaped coverage of Mumia Abu-Jamal's case from the outset, and current mentions suggest little has changed. The post Noelle Hanrahan on Mumia Abu-Jamal Update appeared first on FAIR.

Election coverage should be judged not by how reporters "treat" Democrats or Republicans, but about how they inform and engage the public. The post Julie Hollar and Jim Naureckas on 2022 Midterms appeared first on FAIR.

Growing numbers of people have concerns, not just about uncritical US support for Israel, but also about the shutdown of critics. The post Ahmad Abuznaid on Israeli Human Rights Crackdown, Sohale Mortazavi on Cryptocurrency appeared first on FAIR.

With tens of thousands of workers walking out around the country, the notion that this is somehow not meaningful should be hard to maintain. The post John Logan on Amazon & Starbucks Organizing appeared first on FAIR.

Tax giveaways to non–Puerto Ricans mean money not going to Puerto Rico's energy systems, schools, hospitals, housing. The post Julio López Varona on Puerto Rico Colonialism, Guerline Jozef on Haitian Refugee Abuse appeared first on FAIR.

US news media need to not only acknowledge inflicting racist harms, but take seriously the idea of repairing them. The post Alicia Bell and Collette Watson on Media Reparations appeared first on FAIR.

For corporate media, being a paid flack for the police in no way disqualifies you to offer analysis of law enforcement. The post Sumayyah Waheed on CNN’s Copaganda Hire, Chris Becker on Inflation Coverage appeared first on FAIR.

News media missed an opportunity to interrogate the media outlets and politicians who repeatedly invoke the white replacement idea. The post Matt Gertz and Eric K Ward on White ‘Replacement’ Theory appeared first on FAIR.

The film Powerlands covers Indigenous people around the world, and the resource extraction stealing their water, minerals and homelands. The post Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso on Indigenous Resistance, Alex Vitale on the End of Policing appeared first on FAIR.

The corporate media narrative on Israel/Palestine makes it hard to make sense of the recent assault by Israeli forces on the Gaza Strip. The post Ahmad Abuznaid on Palestine Human Rights Crackdown, Andrew Perez on Dark Money Donation appeared first on FAIR.

We have some questions about the US government's claim that this time, they're really bringing stability and security to Central America. The post Azadeh Shahshahani on Central America Plan, Jon Lloyd on Facebook Disinformation appeared first on FAIR.

Alex Jones' lawyer says talking about his white supremacism would "distract from the main issues." What are the "main issues" about Jones? The post Angelo Carusone on Alex Jones Trial, Karl Grossman on Nuclear War appeared first on FAIR.

This week on CounterSpin: The crises we face right now in the US—a nominally democratic political process that’s strangled by white supremacist values, a corporate profiteering system that mindlessly overrides human needs to treat the environment as just another “input”—are terrible, but not, precisely, new. People have fought against these ideas in various forms before; […] The post Luke Harris and Joe Torres on America’s Racist Legacy appeared first on FAIR.