https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250808.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Jacobin, (7/30/25) This week on CounterSpin: When the Washington, DC, city council voted to gut plans to raise wages for tipped workers, they weren’t just stiff-arming restaurant and hospitality wo…

Janine Jackson interviewed FAIR contributor Ari Paul about genocide in Gaza for the August 1, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250801Paul.mp3 Janine Jackson: The International Rescue Committee, among other groups, is declaring that Isr…

Janine Jackson interviewed the ACLU’s Scout Katovich about forced institutionalization of poor and disabled people for the August 1, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250801katovich.mp3 Janine Jackson: Poverty and homelessness—and their…

https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250801.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). New York Times (7/22/25) This week on CounterSpin: The mainstream US media debate on the starvation and violence and war crimes in Gaza still, in July 2025, makes room for Bret Stephens, who explai…

https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250725.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). PBS NewsHour (7/18/25) This week on CounterSpin: The Trump administration is funding a genocide in Gaza—never mind headlines like July 24’s Washington Post: “Mass Starvation Stalks Gaza as Deaths F…

https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250718.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Truthout (6/11/25) This week on CounterSpin: The US official stance about the UN is, basically, they’re not the boss of us. But: If it looks like they can make hay with it, then sure. That’s why Se…

https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250711.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Intercept (7/8/25) This week on CounterSpin: Along with many other hate-driven harms, the budget bill puts Stephen Miller’s cruel and bizarre mass deportation plan on steroids. $45 billion for buil…

https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250704.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). (photo: Jim Naureckas) This week on CounterSpin: White supremacy, Islamophobia and antisemitism are irreducible dangers in themselves. They are also tools that powerful, wealthy people take up to p…

https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250627.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Column (6/22/25) This week on CounterSpin: Prosecutors at the 1946 International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg declared: War is essentially an evil thing. Its consequences are not confined to the …

https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250620.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). CEPR (3/3/25) This week on CounterSpin: We’ve always heard that racists hate quotas, yet Stephen Miller’s “3000 a day however which way” mandate is terrorizing immigrant communities—brown immigrant…

There’s an important legal development in the case of student activist Mahmoud Khalil, held without warrant since March for voicing support for Palestinian lives.By Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

Reports are that Elon Musk is going back to make Tesla great again. We’ll talk about how to miss Musk when he won’t go away.By Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

Tom Morello's music has always been intertwined with his activism and advocacy for social, racial and economic justice.By Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

The feint Congress is using to cut Medicare—we’re just forcing recipients to work, like they should—is obvious, age-old and long-disproven.By Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

Millions around the world ask every day what it will take to awaken the conscience of leaders to stop the genocide of Palestinians.By Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

Our lack of knowledge of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency will only hurt us in our response to the effects that the dealings around that stuff are having on our lives.By Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

The Trump White House seeks to denounce and derail multiracial democracy—in part by erasing the history of Black people in this country.By Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

The Yemeni people are paying the price both for the fighting and for the distortions around it, from political elites and their media amplifiers.By Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

What can thinking, feeling human beings do now to protect fellow humans who are immigrants in this country?By Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

Kennedy’s unorthodox ideas may get us all killed while media whistle.By Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

Pretending protest isn’t happening is aiding and abetting the work of the silencers; it’s telling lies about who we are and what we can do.By Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

All that’s in the balance are human lives and health, and the ability of working people to plan for our futures.By Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

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Policy impacts on people with disabilities are overwhelmingly an afterthought for corporate media, though it’s a community anyone can join at any moment.By Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

Send us a text In this episode of Fret Friends, we dive into my the topic of how to get out of a rut. This is life! We all get stuck once in a while. Enjoy these example and try to keep an open mind. These will help. :) Sit back and enjoy! Thank you all! Support the show Subscribe & Connect: Instagram @apguitarguru TikTok @apguitarguru YouTube @apg…

Federal workers, presumed to be easy targets, are also on the front lines of the fightback against the Trump/Musk federal smash and grab.By Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

Send us a text In this episode of Fret Friends, we continue our mini segment 'The Power of Ear Training' with the next step - Dominant 7 + Major 7 chords! Whether you're a beginner or an experienced player, hearing the difference is as important as actually playing the different chords! Let's go! Support the show Subscribe & Connect: Instagram @apg…

Fossil fuel corporations' lawsuits against those who challenge their destruction take aim at our ability to speak out about anything.By Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

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Corporate media can't bring themselves to call Trump's illegal, inhumane plan what it is: ethnic cleansing.By Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

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Corporate news media presented a campaign openly defined as uninterested in truth or humanity as a totally valid, “grassroots” perspective.By Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

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The Trump campaign against transgender people lands in an elite media climate in which trans lives have long been deemed "subject to debate."By Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

Send us a text In this episode of Fret Friends, I answer YOUR questions! Thank you to all the questions I received for this episode via Instagram. You made this episode happen! Support the show Subscribe & Connect: Instagram @apguitarguru TikTok @apguitarguru YouTube @apguitartv Web apguitar.co.uk Mail [email protected] If you enjoyed this epi…

The increasing influence of the super rich on the politics and policy we all have to live with is an urgent story, if not a new one.By Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

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Immigration itself is now not a human rights story, or even an economic one, but yet another story about “their” crimes and “our” safety.By Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

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Many are calling out insurance companies that take folks’ money, but then hinder their ability to come out from under when these predictable and predicted crises occur.By Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

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How different is Thomas Friedman's insistence that China "let in more Taylor Swifts" from US media coverage of China and trade policy generally?By Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

Corporate news media, tasked primarily with enriching the rich and shoring up entrenched institutions, will not do the liberatory, illuminating work of independent journalism.By Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

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Does banning TokTok threaten First Amendment freedoms? A judge says the government “acted solely to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation.”By Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

While not the first to ask us to see the assault on Palestinians as genocide, Amnesty’s report offers an opening to ask why some are so invested in saying it isn’t.By Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

When a corporate behemoth like Amazon buys one of the country’s national newspapers, it’s a conflict writ large as can or should be.By Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

A federal jury has just found military contractor CACI responsible for its part in Abu Ghraib abuse, in a ruling being called “exceptional in every sense of the term.”By Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

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