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February 1, 2020 at 12:06 AM

Ending Palestinian Statehood as ‘Path’ to Palestinian Statehood

All posts View this email in your browser   Ending Palestinian Statehood as ‘Path’ to Palestinian Statehood by Joshua Cho Detail of Trump's "conceptual map" for Israel/Palestine. Media coverage of the Israel/Palestine conflict over the years has typically portrayed Palestinians …

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January 31, 2020 at 10:00 PM

Media on Climate Crisis: Don't Organize, Mourn

All posts View this email in your browser   Media on Climate Crisis: Don't Organize, Mourn by Neil deMause Time's naming Greta Thunberg as Person of the Year (12/23–30/19) was a symbol of rising media interest in the threat posted by climate change. The year 2019 was, by all acc…

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January 31, 2020 at 4:17 PM

Omar Baddar on Israel/Palestine 'Peace' Plan, Rainey Reitman on Greenwald Persecution

All posts View this email in your browser   Omar Baddar on Israel/Palestine 'Peace' Plan, Rainey Reitman on Greenwald Persecution Play Stop pop out X MP3 Link Detail from Kushner "conceptual map." This week on CounterSpin: I…

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January 31, 2020 at 1:37 PM

'This Is About Making a Very Large Number of Indians Second-Class Citizens'

All posts View this email in your browser   'This Is About Making a Very Large Number of Indians Second-Class Citizens' Janine Jackson interviewed Globetrotter’s Vijay Prashad about demonstrations in India for the January 24, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited …

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January 30, 2020 at 11:52 PM

Corporate Media Are the Real 'Sanders Attack Machine'

All posts View this email in your browser   Corporate Media Are the Real 'Sanders Attack Machine' by Julie Hollar As the Iowa caucuses approach, corporate media are beginning to panic. "Running Bernie Sanders Against Trump Would Be an Act of Insanity," insisted  Jonathan Chait in …

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January 30, 2020 at 3:58 PM

The New York Times Endorsement Has Often Been a Boost for the Unendorsed

All posts View this email in your browser   The New York Times Endorsement Has Often Been a Boost for the Unendorsed by Alan MacLeod The New York Times’ recent endorsement (1/19/20) of both Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Amy Klobuchar for the Democratic presidential nomination see…

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January 29, 2020 at 9:39 PM

the continuation of this neocolonial system is not being dismantled

All posts View this email in your browser   the continuation of this neocolonial system is not being dismantled Janine Jackson interviewed Manuel Pérez-Rocha about NAFTA 2.0 for the January 24, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. …

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January 29, 2020 at 7:51 PM

'This Type of Surveillance Threatens Us All'

All posts View this email in your browser   'This Type of Surveillance Threatens Us All' Janine Jackson interviewed Defending Rights & Dissent’s Chip Gibbons about the FBI vs. the First Amendment for the January 17, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transc…

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January 28, 2020 at 3:38 PM

It’s Media—Not Bernie Sanders—That Have an Antisemitism Problem

All posts View this email in your browser   It’s Media—Not Bernie Sanders—That Have an Antisemitism Problem by Alan MacLeod Have you heard the news? Democratic presidential frontrunner Bernie Sanders is antisemitic. Yes, yes, he’s Jewish, and has a long history of anti-racist acti…

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January 24, 2020 at 11:45 PM

Sanders = Trump?... Biden & Social Security... US Right to Violence....

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January 24, 2020 at 11:01 PM

Insurance Lobby Talking Points Don't Come With Warning Labels

All posts View this email in your browser   Insurance Lobby Talking Points Don't Come With Warning Labels by Joshua Cho Ever since The Intercept (11/20/18) found several planning documents by the Partnership for America’s Healthcare Future (PAHCF), a benign-sounding corporate alli…

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January 24, 2020 at 8:54 PM

Corporate Media Equate Sanders to Trump—Because for Them, Sanders Is the Bigger Threat

All posts View this email in your browser   Corporate Media Equate Sanders to Trump—Because for Them, Sanders Is the Bigger Threat by Julie Hollar As Bernie Sanders emerged as a threat to Hillary Clinton's presidential nomination in 2016, media began liberally tossing around artic…

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January 24, 2020 at 4:26 PM

Vijay Prashad on India Demonstrations, Manuel Perez-Rocha on NAFTA 2.0

All posts View this email in your browser   Vijay Prashad on India Demonstrations, Manuel Perez-Rocha on NAFTA 2.0 Play Stop pop out X MP3 Link (image: VOA) This week on CounterSpin: Millions of Indians—maybe a quarter of a …

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January 23, 2020 at 10:33 PM

'This Is Already a Hot War the US Is Prosecuting Against Iran'

All posts View this email in your browser   'This Is Already a Hot War the US Is Prosecuting Against Iran'  Janine Jackson interviewed media scholar Gregory Shupak about the Soleimani assassination for the January 10, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcri…

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January 22, 2020 at 10:07 PM

23 Headlines Obscure Biden's Lies About Cutting Social Security

All posts View this email in your browser   23 Headlines Obscure Biden's Lies About Cutting Social Security by Joshua Cho Here’s something many Americans would be very interested to know: Is a leading candidate in the Democratic primary a liar? And since a strong majority of Ameri…

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January 22, 2020 at 7:51 PM

How Western Left Media Helped Legitimate US Regime Change in Venezuela

All posts View this email in your browser   How Western Left Media Helped Legitimate US Regime Change in Venezuela by Lucas Koerner In Jacobin (2/5/19)... It’s been a year since Juan Guaidó began his US-anointed mandate as “interim president” of Venezuela. Following the oppositi…

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January 21, 2020 at 10:34 PM

'The Driving Force Is to Help Polluters Get Their Permits Faster'

All posts View this email in your browser   'The Driving Force Is to Help Polluters Get Their Permits Faster' Janine Jackson interviewed the Center for Biological Diversity’s Brett Hartl on the National Environmental Policy Act for the January 10, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. Thi…

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January 21, 2020 at 5:29 PM

Netflix, Iran and the Documentary as Geopolitical Weapon

All posts View this email in your browser   Netflix, Iran and the Documentary as Geopolitical Weapon by Brian Mier Netflix's Nisman: The Prosecutor, the President and the Spy Like The Mechanism before it, Netflix’s new series Nisman: The Prosecutor, the President and the Spy is …

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January 21, 2020 at 4:15 PM

The US’s Inalienable Right to Violence

All posts View this email in your browser   The US’s Inalienable Right to Violence by Gregory Shupak This Washington Post headline  (1/7/20) is probably true. Even when critical of US actions, media commentary on recent US bombings and assassinations in the Middle East is premis…

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January 21, 2020 at 12:02 AM

CNN's Debate Questions... Facebook & First Amendment... Anti-Homeless Reporters

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January 17, 2020 at 12:19 PM

Chip Gibbons on FBI vs. 1st Amendment

All posts View this email in your browser   Chip Gibbons on FBI vs. 1st Amendment Play Stop pop out X MP3 Link Image: Defending Rights & Dissent This week on CounterSpin: At a Sacramento rally in 2016, members of a white…

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January 15, 2020 at 10:56 PM

The Big Loser in the Iowa Debate? CNN’s Reputation

All posts View this email in your browser   The Big Loser in the Iowa Debate? CNN’s Reputation by Jim Naureckas and Julie Hollar The biggest loser from last night’s Democratic debate (1/14/20) was CNN’s journalistic credibility. CNN debates have been marked by a tendency to pit on…

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January 15, 2020 at 6:16 PM

Shining a Spotlight on Anti-Homeless Reporters

All posts View this email in your browser   Shining a Spotlight on Anti-Homeless Reporters by Josmar Trujillo Breaking news from the New York Post (12/30/19): A man is "grabbing food from the trays and shoving it directly into his mouth, wet with drool and framed by a scraggly be…

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January 14, 2020 at 8:32 PM

Facebook’s Soleimani Ban Flies in Face of First Amendment

All posts View this email in your browser   Facebook’s Soleimani Ban Flies in Face of First Amendment by Ari Paul Coda (1/10/20) appears to have been the first to break the story of Instagram's Soleimani censorship, as part of the site's focus on "authoritarian tech." Instagram,…

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January 13, 2020 at 11:20 PM

CNN's Sanders Hit Piece Doesn't Pass the Smell Test

All posts View this email in your browser   CNN's Sanders Hit Piece Doesn't Pass the Smell Test by Dave Lindorff CNN (1/13/19) has an anonymously sourced hit piece out today on Bernie Sanders, claiming that at a meeting in Elizabeth Warren's home on December 18, 2018, he told her …

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January 10, 2020 at 11:21 PM

Trump's Iran Assassination... Joe Biden's Foreign Policy... Venezuela Crisis....

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January 10, 2020 at 9:28 PM

For Western Press, the Only Coup in Venezuela Is Against Guaidó

All posts View this email in your browser   For Western Press, the Only Coup in Venezuela Is Against Guaidó  by Lucas Koerner The Washington Post (1/5/20) described Venezuelan lawmakers voting against someone other than Washington's chosen candidate to head the assembly as "sedit…

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January 10, 2020 at 4:10 PM

Gregory Shupak on Iran Assassination, Brett Hartl on Biodiversity Loss

All posts View this email in your browser   Gregory Shupak on Iran Assassination, Brett Hartl on Biodiversity Loss Play Stop pop out X MP3 Link   NBC image of Iranians mourning Qassem Soleimani (photo: Atta Kenare/AFP) Havin…

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January 10, 2020 at 1:34 AM

From Resistance to Assistance: Little Pushback to Trump’s Iran Assassination

All posts View this email in your browser   From Resistance to Assistance: Little Pushback to Trump’s Iran Assassination by Alan MacLeod Qassem Soleimani (cc photo: Sayyed Shahab Odin Vajedi) After Donald Trump’s election, both the New York Times and Washington Post saw huge jum…

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January 9, 2020 at 9:40 PM

Steady Hand Joe

All posts View this email in your browser   Steady Hand Joe by Julie Hollar For pundits, what makes a politician strong on foreign policy? Apparently doing something for a long time matters more than honesty and good judgment—and it helps if the bad choices made are the same ones …

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January 7, 2020 at 11:12 PM

Greasing the Gears of the Armageddon Engine

All posts View this email in your browser   Greasing the Gears of the Armageddon Engine by Frank Black Remember how most reporters covered that Canadian Islamic separatist movement? You know the one: It wanted to seize control of the entire provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, a…

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January 7, 2020 at 9:47 PM

'The People With the Least Resources Are Now Shouldering the Greatest Burden'

All posts View this email in your browser   'The People With the Least Resources Are Now Shouldering the Greatest Burden' Janine Jackson interviewed educator Kevin Kumashiro about student debt forgiveness for the June 28, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited tran…

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January 7, 2020 at 4:51 PM

'This Is a Moment to Be Really Vigilant Against All Forms of Oppression'

All posts View this email in your browser   'This Is a Moment to Be Really Vigilant Against All Forms of Oppression' Janine Jackson interviewed Jews for Racial and Economic Justice’s Audrey Sasson about antisemitism for the January 3, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightl…

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January 6, 2020 at 10:05 PM

'Say No to Stealing Our Social Security Benefits'

All posts View this email in your browser   'Say No to Stealing Our Social Security Benefits' Janine Jackson interviewed Social Security Works’ Alex Lawson about Social Security and disability for the January 3, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. …

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January 6, 2020 at 1:40 AM

Australian Wildfires... Antisemitism... Social Security & Disability... Andrew Yang....

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January 5, 2020 at 9:58 PM

'The Fed Is a Political Institution That Pretends Not to Be Political'

All posts View this email in your browser   'The Fed Is a Political Institution That Pretends Not to Be Political' Journalist William Greider, who died on Christmas Day 2019 at the age of 83, was a repeat guest on CounterSpin; Janine Jackson interviewed him about former Federal Re…

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January 5, 2020 at 7:46 PM

'We Have to Bust In and Insist That Power Be Shared in a Different Kind of Way'

All posts View this email in your browser   'We Have to Bust In and Insist That Power Be Shared in a Different Kind of Way' The December 27, 2019, episode of CounterSpin was the Best of CounterSpin 2019—featuring excerpts of Janine Jackson's interviews with Carey Gillam on Monsant…

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January 4, 2020 at 2:34 PM

Media Leave Yang Out of Candidate Conversations

All posts View this email in your browser   Media Leave Yang Out of Candidate Conversations by Julie Hollar The Democratic primary field may be narrowing, but Andrew Yang still can't get the media's attention. According to the New York Times (12/19/19), which breaks down the debat…

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January 4, 2020 at 12:16 AM

Trump Order Aimed at Palestine Solidarity, Not Antisemitism

All posts View this email in your browser   Trump Order Aimed at Palestine Solidarity, Not Antisemitism by Gregory Shupak Antisemitism is a very real problem—which Donald Trump is exploiting to advance an anti-Palestinian agenda. President Donald Trump issued an executive order …

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January 3, 2020 at 7:46 PM

Australia Wildfire Coverage Is Long on Koalas, Short on Causes

All posts View this email in your browser   Australia Wildfire Coverage Is Long on Koalas, Short on Causes by Neil deMause Fires making their own weather are interesting (The Hill, 12/30/19)—but not as important as humans making their own climate. If you've only been following t…

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January 3, 2020 at 4:36 PM

Alex Lawson on Social Security & Disability, Audrey Sasson on Antisemitism

All posts View this email in your browser   Alex Lawson on Social Security & Disability, Audrey Sasson on Antisemitism Play Stop pop out X MP3 Link (image: Social Security Works) This week on CounterSpin: Social Security…

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December 30, 2019 at 6:00 PM

Fight Corporate Media in 2020

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December 29, 2019 at 11:22 PM

Afghan Papers' Colonial Lessons... Media's Holiday Advice... Best of CounterSpin....

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December 28, 2019 at 6:39 PM

'We Need to Do Everything We Can on All Fronts'

All posts View this email in your browser   'We Need to Do Everything We Can on All Fronts' Janine Jackson interviewed organizer Dorothee Benz about impeachment protests for the December 20, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Pla…

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December 28, 2019 at 3:42 PM

'No Jury Ever Announces a Not Guilty Verdict Before the Trial'

All posts View this email in your browser   'No Jury Ever Announces a Not Guilty Verdict Before the Trial' Janine Jackson interviewed legal scholar Marjorie Cohn about the impeachment of Donald Trump for the December 20, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited trans…

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December 27, 2019 at 4:32 PM

Best of CounterSpin 2019

All posts View this email in your browser   Best of CounterSpin 2019 Play Stop pop out X MP3 Link Every week, CounterSpin looks behind the headlines of the corporate media whose presentation of the world does so much to shape …

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December 27, 2019 at 3:47 PM

Can Corporate Media Be Any Worse...

Can Corporate Media Be Any Worse… View this email in your browser More than Halfway Home— but We Still Need You! “Powerful.... A horror film of the most realistic kind. Peabody’s documentary examines …

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December 26, 2019 at 5:38 PM

WaPo's Afghan Papers Propagate Colonial Narrative of Noble Intentions Gone Awry

All posts View this email in your browser   WaPo's Afghan Papers Propagate Colonial Narrative of Noble Intentions Gone Awry by Joshua Cho Washington Post (12/9/19) In an earlier article (FAIR.org, 12/18/19) regarding the Washington Post’s Afghanistan Papers (12/9/19), I discusse…

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December 22, 2019 at 3:38 PM

There’s No Place Like the ‘Center’ for the Holidays

All posts View this email in your browser   There’s No Place Like the ‘Center’ for the Holidays by Julianne Tveten The Washington Post (11/25/19) presents the holiday dinner table as " a minefield — just waiting to be detonated by political opinions." As the holidays approach, c…

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December 22, 2019 at 1:52 AM

Impeachment... PBS Debate Bias... British Election Lessons....

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