Best Jessica Covert Podcasts (2025)

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Tom Morello on Music as Protest 29:58

2d ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé and … Oprah? They’re among the entertainers in Trump’s sights for, it would seem, endorsing Kamala Harris in the election and, maybe, for saying something unflattering about him or his actions — which, in his brain, and that of the minions who’ve chosen to share that brain, constitu…

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Tom Morello on Music as Protest 27:52

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https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250530.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Tom Morello at Occupy Wall Street (CC photo: David Shankbone) This week on CounterSpin: Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé and…Oprah? They’re among the entertainers in Trump’s ALLCAPS sights …

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Bryce Covert on Work Requirements / Erin Reed on Trans Care “Questions” 29:59

9d ago29:59

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This week on CounterSpin: On a Sunday night, not when officials do things they’re most proud of, House Republicans passed a plan to give more money to rich people by taking it from the non-rich. Call it what you will, that’s what’s ultimately happening with the plan to cut more than $700 billion from Medicaid in order to “offset,” as elite media ha…

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Bryce Covert on Work Requirements, Erin Reed on Trans Care ‘Questions’ 27:52

11d ago27:52

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https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250523.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Common Dreams (5/14/25) This week on CounterSpin: On a Sunday night, not when officials do things they’re most proud of, House Republicans passed a plan to give more money to rich people by taking …

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Mara Kronenfeld on Israel’s Aid Blockade 27:05

16d ago27:05

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This week on CounterSpin: As part of its deadly denial of food, water, and medicine to Palestinian people, Israel attacked a civilian aid ship endeavoring to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza, setting it on fire, injuring crew members, cutting off communications. The ship was called the Conscience. Millions around the world ask every day what it will …

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Mara Kronenfeld on Israel’s Aid Blockade 27:52

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https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250516.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Reuters (5/2/25) This week on CounterSpin: As part of its deadly denial of food, water and medicine to Palestinian people, Israel attacked a civilian aid ship endeavoring to bring humanitarian aid …

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Bartlett Naylor on Meme Coin Grift / Ashley Nunes on Public Land Selloff 29:59

23d ago29:59

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This week on CounterSpin: They say ignorance is bliss, but I know that, for myself and others, 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. Bartlett Naylor breaks it down for us; he works at Public Citizen, as a financial policy advo…

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Bartlett Naylor on Meme Coin Grift, Ashley Nunes on Public Land Selloff 27:59

25d ago27:59

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https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250509.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). $Trump marketing website. This week on CounterSpin: They say ignorance is bliss, but I know that, for myself and others, our lack of knowledge of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency will only hurt us in our…

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Tanya Clay House on Freedom to Learn / Danaka Katovich on Attacks on Activists 29:58

1M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: The website of the Kairos Democracy Project has a quote from John Lewis, reminding us, “Democracy is not a state. It is an act.” Our guest Tanya Clay House is board chair at Kairos and a longtime advocate for the multiracial democracy that the Trump White House seeks to denounce and derail — in part by erasing the history …

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Tanya Clay House on Freedom to Learn, Danaka Katovich on Attacks on Activists 27:52

1M ago27:52

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https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250502.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Ruby Bridges challenged US segregation in 1960. This week on CounterSpin: You can say someone ‘supports the rights’ of people of color to vote, or to have our experience and history recognized—as t…

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Jeff Hauser on DOGE / Karen Thompson on “Fetal Personhood” 29:59

1M ago29:59

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This week on CounterSpin: Elon Musk reportedly told Tesla investors that he’ll be amping down his role with the Department of Government Efficiency to, one guesses, bring his big brain back into their service. Like the “War on Terror,” “DOGE” is a thing that was in part spoken into normalcy by the corporate press. Media seem ready to, if not embrac…

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Khury Petersen-Smith on Yemen Distortions 29:58

1M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: CBS News on April 14 said: We’re following new violence in the Middle East. Israeli strikes hit a major hospital in northern Gaza. At least 21 people were reportedly killed. The emergency room is badly damaged. Israel accused Hamas of using the hospital to hide its fighters. Meanwhile, Houthi militants in Yemen said they f…

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Khury Petersen-Smith on Yemen Distortions 27:52

2M ago27:52

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https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250418.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). The Nation (3/27/25) This week on CounterSpin: CBS News on April 14 said: We’re following new violence in the Middle East. Israeli strikes hit a major hospital in northern Gaza. At least 21 people …

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Dara Lind on Criminalizing Immigrants 29:58

2M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: We’re learning from Jonah Valdez at the Intercept that the Trump administration is now revoking visas and the immigration status of hundreds of international students under the Student Exchange and Visitor Program — not just those active in pro-Palestinian advocacy or those with criminal records of any sort. It is, says on…

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Dara Lind on Criminalizing Immigrants 27:52

2M ago27:52

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https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250411.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Intercept (4/8/25) This week on CounterSpin: We’re learning from Jonah Valdez at the Intercept that the Trump administration is now revoking visas and immigration statuses of hundreds of internatio…

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Paul Offit on RFK Jr. and Measles / Jessica González on Trump’s FCC 29:58

2M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: When Robert Kennedy Jr. was just a famously named man about town, we heard about how he dumped a bear carcass in Central Park for fun, believes that children’s gender is shaped by chemicals in the water, and asserts that Covid-19 was “targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people,” while leaving “Ashkenazi Jews and Chines…

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Paul Offit on RFK Jr. and Measles, Jessica González on Trump’s FCC 27:52

2M ago27:52

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https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250404.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). New York Times (11/14/24) This week on CounterSpin: If “some people believe it” were the criterion, our daily news would be full of respectful consideration of the Earth’s flatness, the relationshi…

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Michael Arria on Gaza Pushback 29:59

2M ago29:59

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This week on CounterSpin: Israel has abandoned the ceasefire agreement and restarted its genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza — a war that has destroyed the region and killed tens of thousands of human beings. The ceasefire, as Gaza-based writer Hassan Abo Qamar, among others, reminds us, still allowed Israel to deprive Palestinians in Gaza o…

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Michael Arria on Gaza Pushback 27:52

2M ago27:52

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https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250328.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Mondoweiss (3/18/25) This week on CounterSpin: Israel has abandoned the ceasefire agreement and restarted its genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza, a war that has destroyed the region and kil…

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Nancy Altman on Social Security Attacks 29:58

2M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: News site Popular Information alerted us to new Social Security Administration policy effectively requiring tens of thousands of recipients, by the agency’s own estimation, to travel to a field office to verify their ID. An internal memo predicts the shift will create “service disruption,” “operational strain,” and “budget…

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Nancy Altman on Social Security Attacks 27:52

2M ago27:52

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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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David Perry on MAGA and Disability / Kehsi Iman Wilson on ADA (2023) 29:58

3M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: In early February, when Representative Maxwell Frost tweeted that he and Representative Maxine Waters were denied access to the Department of Education, Elon Musk responded on the platform he owns: “What is this ‘Department of Education’ you keep talking about? I just checked and it doesn’t exist.” That, we understand, was…

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David Perry on MAGA & Disability, Kehsi Iman Wilson (2023) on ADA 27:52

3M ago27:52

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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

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Eric Blanc on Worker-to-Worker Organizing 29:58

3M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: A NASA official warned workers to maybe think about not wearing their badges in public, to protect themselves from harassment against people identifiable as federal workers by MAGA randos who feel deputized by Trump and Musk to do whatever it is Trump and Musk suggest. It’s early days of the Trump/Musk federal smash and gr…

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Eric Blanc on Worker-to-Worker Organizing 27:52

3M ago27:52

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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

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Kirk Herbertson on Big Oil’s Lawsuit Against Environmentalism 29:58

3M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: Just because we might witness the daylight robbery of the social benefits we’ve been paying for and counting on for the entirety of our working lives, and just because Black people are no longer officially allowed to even mentor Black people coming in to fields they’ve been historically excluded from, and just because any …

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Kirk Herbertson on Big Oil’s Lawsuit Against Environmentalism 27:52

3M ago27:52

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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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Gregory Shupak on Palestine Ethnic Cleansing / Portia Allen-Kyle on Tax Unfairness 29:58

3M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: Donald Trump has declared that the U.S. is going to “take over” the Gaza Strip, and the Palestinians who live there will be “permanently” exiled. Asked whether Palestinians would have the right to return to Gaza under his scheme, Trump said “no.” But even those corporate media who aren’t actually endorsing this illegal, in…

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Gregory Shupak on Palestine Ethnic Cleansing, Portia Allen-Kyle on Tax Unfairness 27:52

3M ago27:52

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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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Luke Charles Harris on Critical Race Theory (2021) 29:57

4M ago29:57

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This week on CounterSpin: A number of federal agencies rushed to make clear they would be scrubbing activities and events that “celebrate cultural awareness” in an effort to stay on the good side of the weird new White House. Trump and his abettors’ anti-anti-discrimination agenda is as subtle as a sledgehammer. “DEI hire,” for instance, is super-c…

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Luke Charles Harris on Critical Race Theory (2021) 27:56

4M ago27:56

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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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Ezra Young on Trans Rights Law / Anne Sosin on RFK Jr. and Rural Health 29:59

4M ago29:59

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This week on CounterSpin: We know that once corporate news label something “controversial,” we’re in for reporting with a static “some say / others differ” frame — even if one “side” of the “controversy” is a relatively small group of people who don’t believe in science or human rights or democracy. As the Trump White House comes out fast and furio…

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Ezra Young on Trans Rights Law, Anne Sosin on RFK Jr. and Rural Health 27:52

4M ago27:52

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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

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David Kass on Billionaire Election-Buying 29:58

4M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: You may remember the testimony: former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz pouting to a Senate hearing on the company’s union-busting in which he was referred to as a billionaire that using that “moniker constantly is unfair”: “Yes, I have billions of dollars — I earned it. No one gave it to me. And I’ve shared it constantly with…

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David Kass on Billionaire Election-Buying 27:52

4M ago27:52

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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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Silky Shah on the Attack on Immigrants 29:59

4M ago29:59

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This week on CounterSpin: Those with a beating heart can see the horror of Trump’s plans to deputize wannabe vigilantes to denounce community members they suspect “don’t belong here,” to send ICE into schools and churches to round folks up — police records or no — and ship them to detention centers, to ride roughshod over time-honored concepts of s…

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Silky Shah on the Attack on Immigrants 27:52

4M ago27:52

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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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Derek Seidman on Insurance and Climate (2024) / Ariel Adelman on Disability Civil Rights (2024) 29:58

5M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: While the New York Times rolls out claptrap about how both “the left and the right” have ideas about causes behind the devastating Los Angeles wildfires — the right blame DEI hires, while the left blame climate change — many people have moved beyond that sort of stultifying nonsense to work that directly confronts the foss…

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Derek Seidman on Insurance and Climate (2024); Ariel Adelman on Disability Civil Rights (2024) 27:52

5M ago27:52

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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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Dean Baker on China Trade Policy 29:58

5M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s December 17 piece, headlined “How Elon Musk and Taylor Swift Can Resolve U.S.-China Relations,” contained some choice Friedmanisms, like: “More Americans might get a better feel for what is going on there if they simply went and ordered room service at their hotel.” We’ll talk abo…

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Dean Baker on China Trade Policy 27:52

5M ago27:52

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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

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Sonali Kolhatkar and Laura Flanders on Independent Media and the Year Ahead 29:58

5M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: Among many other things, 2024 was a series of reminders that corporate news media, tasked primarily with enriching the rich and shoring up entrenched institutions, will not, today or ever, do the liberatory, illuminating work of independent journalism — that boldly speaks truth to power, that stands up for the societally v…

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Sonali Kolhatkar & Laura Flanders on Independent Media and the Year Ahead 27:53

5M ago27:53

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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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The Best of CounterSpin 2024 29:58

5M ago29:58

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This is the time of year when we listen back to some of the conversations from the past year that have helped us clarify the events that bombard us — in part by showing how elite media are clouding them. It’s not to say Big Media always get the facts wrong; but that what facts they point us toward, day after day, whose interpretation of those facts…

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The Best of CounterSpin 2024 27:52

5M ago27:52

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This is the time of year when we take a listen back to some of the conversations from the past year that have helped us clarify the events that bombard us.By Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

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Yanni Chen on TikTok Ban, Richard Mendel on Youth and Crime 29:59

5M ago29:59

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This week on CounterSpin: Writing for a DC court of appeals, Douglas Ginsburg said yes, banning the wildly popular platform TikTok does raise concerns about First Amendment freedoms; but it’s still good, because in pushing for the ban, the U.S. government “acted solely to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation.” If that’s clear as mud…

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Yanni Chen on TikTok Ban, Richard Mendel on Youth and Crime 27:52

6M ago27:52

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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

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Iman Abid on Israeli Genocide 29:58

6M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: The New York Times says that Amnesty International recently became “the first major international human rights organization to accuse Israel of carrying out genocide in Gaza.” That makes sense if you ignore the other human rights groups and international bodies that have said Israel’s actions in the wake of Hamas attacks o…

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Iman Abid on Israeli Genocide 27:52

6M ago27:52

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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

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Arlene Martinez on Amazon Misconduct / Neil deMause (2019) on Amazon HQ Fight 29:58

6M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: Few corporations have changed the U.S. business and consumer model more than Amazon. So when that corporate behemoth buys one of the country’s national newspapers — it’s a conflict writ large as can or should be. But things as they are, reporting on Amazon has in general looked more like representing that conflict than con…

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