The Best of CounterSpin 2024

27.12.2024

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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.

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David Kass on Billionaire Election-Buying
31.1.2025
27:52
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.
Silky Shah on the Attack on Immigrants
24.1.2025
27:52
Immigration itself is now not a human rights story, or even an economic one, but yet another story about “their” crimes and “our” safety.
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Derek Seidman on Insurance and Climate (2024); Ariel Adelman on Disability Civil Rights (2024)
17.1.2025
27:52
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.
Dean Baker on China Trade Policy
10.1.2025
27:52
How different is Thomas Friedman's insistence that China "let in more Taylor Swifts" from US media coverage of China and trade policy generally?
Sonali Kolhatkar & Laura Flanders on Independent Media and the Year Ahead
3.1.2025
27:53
Corporate news media, tasked primarily with enriching the rich and shoring up entrenched institutions, will not do the liberatory, illuminating work of independent journalism.
The Best of CounterSpin 2024
27.12.2024
27:52
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.
Yanni Chen on TikTok Ban, Richard Mendel on Youth and Crime
20.12.2024
27:52
Does banning TokTok threaten First Amendment freedoms? A judge says the government “acted solely to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation.”
Iman Abid on Israeli Genocide
13.12.2024
27:52
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.
Arlene Martinez on Amazon Misconduct, Neil deMause (2019) on Amazon HQ Fight
6.12.2024
27:52
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.
Katherine Gallagher on Abu Ghraib Verdict
29.11.2024
27:56
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.”

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The Best of CounterSpin 2024

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Weitere Episoden von „CounterSpin“

David Kass on Billionaire Election-Buying

Silky Shah on the Attack on Immigrants

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

Dean Baker on China Trade Policy

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

The Best of CounterSpin 2024

Yanni Chen on TikTok Ban, Richard Mendel on Youth and Crime

Iman Abid on Israeli Genocide

Arlene Martinez on Amazon Misconduct, Neil deMause (2019) on Amazon HQ Fight

Katherine Gallagher on Abu Ghraib Verdict