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CounterSpin is the weekly radio show of FAIR, the national media watch group.

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July 11, 2025 27 mins
Along with many other hate-driven harms, the budget bill puts Stephen Miller’s cruel and bizarre mass deportation plan on steroids.
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Elite news media are Trojan-horsing their hatred for any ideas that threaten their ill-gotten gains, via very deep “concerns” about Zohran Mamdani as a person.
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June 27, 2025 27 mins
US corporate media in war mode are a force to reckon with. We do some reckoning with media analyst Adam Johnson.
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News media could help explain immigration by grappling with the role of conditions the US has largely created in the places people are driven from.
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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.
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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.
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May 30, 2025 27 mins
Tom Morello's music has always been intertwined with his activism and advocacy for social, racial and economic justice.
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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.
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The arguments advanced to justify banning coffee imports from Brazil to the US rely on outliers representing a tiny portion of the workforce, not the norm.
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Millions around the world ask every day what it will take to awaken the conscience of leaders to stop the genocide of Palestinians.
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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.
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The Trump White House seeks to denounce and derail multiracial democracy—in part by erasing the history of Black people in this country.
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The Yemeni people are paying the price both for the fighting and for the distortions around it, from political elites and their media amplifiers.
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April 11, 2025 27 mins
What can thinking, feeling human beings do now to protect fellow humans who are immigrants in this country?
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Kennedy’s unorthodox ideas may get us all killed while media whistle.
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March 28, 2025 27 mins
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.
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March 21, 2025 27 mins
All that’s in the balance are human lives and health, and the ability of working people to plan for our futures.
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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.
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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.
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Fossil fuel corporations' lawsuits against those who challenge their destruction take aim at our ability to speak out about anything.
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