‘Experimenting on People on the Night of Their Execution Can’t Be Right’: CounterSpin interviews with Dahlia Lithwick (2014) and Liliana Segura (2020) on the death penalty
"We used to hang people in the town square. It used to be that it wasn't meant to be clinical. It was meant to be a gruesome public spectacle."
‘We Have to Step Back and Look at How Tolerant We Are of Violence in Homes’: CounterSpin interviews with Soraya Chemaly (2016) and Jane Manning (2021) on domestic violence
"When the justice system refuses to act in cases of gender-based violence...they are effectively depriving us of safety and of the equal protection of the law."
Adam Johnson on How to Sell a Genocide
Disinformation has been a key part of Israel’s US-supported war on Palestinians since before October 7, 2023, but it has been amped up since.
‘Gig Companies Take the Position Their Workers Aren’t Employees Who Have Rights’: CounterSpin interview with Terri Gerstein on gig workers' rights
'If this is the scope of wage theft that is happening just by these two companies, over a short period of time and two places, what is happening everywhere else?'
Florida’s Lawsuit Against NYT’s Gaza Coverage Is Pure Desperation
Florida's lawsuit against the New York Times says less about the newspaper’s Israel/Palestine coverage than it does about the state of the pro-Israel right.
Terri Gerstein on Gig Workers’ Rights
Corporate media lionize corporations that make vast profits by exploiting their employees—such that those workers need government assistance to stay alive.
Western Media Accept Trump’s Plundering of Venezuelan Oil as Business as Usual
Objections to the new Venezuelan oil plan were mostly procedural and out of concern for appearances, not driven by any principled opposition to US predation.
Death Penalty Coverage, Domestic Violence Justice
We’ve been told to think of lethal injection as the clinical, tidy way for the state to murder people. CounterSpin revisits coverage of death penalty realities.
Remembering 9/11—But Not the Victims of the US Response
On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, leading US papers largely ignored the vast numbers of people killed in the wars launched in response to the 9/11 attacks.
Axios Looks for Silver Lining in Trump’s Tinfoil Economy
"Voters don't care." Axios writes, that "the economy's not that bad." Axios doesn't seem to care about giving voters an accurate picture of Trump's economy.
Genocide Treated as Afterthought by Media on Third Anniversary of October 7 Attacks
For corporate media, the third anniversary of the commencement of mass slaughter in Gaza is an afterthought to the anniversary of the Hamas attacks.
‘Pinochet Carried Out Terrorism Less Than Two Miles From the White House’: CounterSpin interview with Sarah Anderson on Letelier/Moffitt murders
"Unfortunately our history is always going to be a few steps forward and a couple steps back, and people just need to keep pushing through that."
Corporate Media Don’t Understand the Houthis—and Don’t Want You to, Either
Corporate media see one thing above all that anyone needs to know about the Houthis: They are simply proxies of Iran, the West’s current favorite enemy.
Don’t Pretend the ‘War on Drugs’ Has Anything to Do With Fighting Drugs
Media exposes reinforce the narrative that the US is in fact fighting against drug cartels—and not using the “drug war” apparatus as a politico-economic weapon.
Why We Should Be Skeptical of Generic Ballot Predictions
Generic ballot predictions over the past quarter of a century have sometimes wildly over-predicted, and sometimes wildly under-predicted, the winner.