Best CounterSpin Podcasts (2025)

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CounterSpin – September 21, 2025 29:58

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CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the each week’s major news stories, and exposes what the mainstream media may have missed in their own coverage. Produced by the national media watch group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting). The post CounterSpin – September 21, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.…

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Matthew Cunningham-Cook on Criminalizing Witness, Tim Karr on Media Compliance 27:52

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https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250919.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Exposed by CMD (9/9/25) This week on CounterSpin: The reason those of us not directly on the sharp end of the violence of ICE agents disappearing brown people off the streets know about it is becau…

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#1739 The Charlie Kirk Assassination and the Plans to Weaponize It 3:29:37

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Air Date 9/23/2025 All that is happening in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination was quite predictable because we've actually seen this game plan play out before. The only thing we didn't know was what would be the catalyst to really put the autocracy into high gear. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991, message us …

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SOLVED! #22 - The Culture Wars at 10,000 Feet 18:51

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Air Date: 9–20-25 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon, and Erin discuss: Ch. 1 - The right-wing’s continued attempts at satire Ch. 2 - Manufactured outrage about male cheerleaders and sorority dances Ch. 3 - How political outsiders always adopt new tech, and how that ties to pushing back against misinformation Ch. 4 - Final thoughts on how when bad actors ma…

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#1738 Escalations: Russia, Israel, And What We Are Allowed to Say About It 3:28:50

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Air Date 9/20/2025 The escalations are happening so fast now that even though this episode is about Russia increasing tensions by violating NATO airspace in Poland with drones and Israel intensifying their belligerence by bombing inside Qatar, those aren't even the most recent incidents now that Russian jets have entered NATO airspace in Estonia an…

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#1737 State of the Resistance: Labor, Anger, and Knowing That We've Been Here Before 3:31:51

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Air Date 9/16/2025 Between recent Labor Day rallies and Republican Town Hall meetings, we're seeing that resistance to Trump's deeply unpopular policies is alive and well. Plus we're going to look at some historical legacies of resistance movements that can both inform and inspire us today. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999…

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CounterSpin – September 14, 2025 29:58

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CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the each week’s major news stories, and exposes what the mainstream media may have missed in their own coverage. Produced by the national media watch group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting). The post CounterSpin – September 14, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.…

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Alex Main on Venezuelan Boat Assault 27:52

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https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250912.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Image of the boat released by Donald Trump on social media. This week on CounterSpin: The US ordered a lethal strike on a small boat in the southern Caribbean that, we’re told, carried Venezuelan d…

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#1736 Not the Opposition Party the Country Need Right Now 3:38:26

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Air Date 9/11/2025 I've always learned the high-level understanding that the Nazis were partly able to come to power because the opposition at the time was too caught up with infighting to create a coherent resistance. With hindsight, it's easy to lament how badly they miscalculated the circumstances but living through the modern day and watching t…

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#1735 Trump's Making Friends of Enemies and Enemies of Neighbors (Foreign and Domestic Wars) 3:48:33

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Air Date 9/7/2025 Trump has been setting a new tone both at home and abroad which is shaking up everything from the war in Ukraine to threats of force against Mexico, Venezuela, and our own American cities with the militarization of domestic policing. And we made all of this before Trump posted an Apocalypse Now meme about using the Department of W…

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CounterSpin – September 7, 2025 29:58

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CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the each week’s major news stories, and exposes what the mainstream media may have missed in their own coverage. Produced by the national media watch group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting). The post CounterSpin – September 7, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.…

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Elizabeth Jacobs on RFK Jr. and Public Health 27:52

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https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250905.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). New York Times (9/1/25) This week on CounterSpin: Multiple previous heads of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention wrote for the New York Times that “what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has done to …

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SOLVED! #21 - GerryF**ked: How to Fix Congressional Representation and End Homelessness 21:07

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Air Date: 9–3-25 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon, and Erin discuss: Ch. 1 - The surprising origins of Gerrymandering Ch. 2 - The options we have to improve congressional representation for everyone in the country Ch. 3 - Democratic states response to Republican gerrymandering threats Ch. 4 - The argument for DC statehood and the people to blame for why i…

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#1567 How to Sell an Immoral Economic System to the Masses (Throwback) 1:03:13

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Air Date: 6–20-2023 Today, we take a look at the story of how neoliberalism was born, how corporations were organized to help push it into the mainstream, and how the courts were reshaped to permanently tilt the rules in favor of corporate power. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991, message us on Signal at the handle bes…

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#1734 Where is the Revolutionary, Anti-Fascist Art? 3:11:37

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Air Date 9/1/2025 The way people consume almost every variety of media, entertainment, and art is different now than it was only 10-15 years ago. That means that the way protest music, revolutionary art, and even mass market productions and performances are going to be different, feel different, and likely find you in different ways than in the pas…

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CounterSpin – August 31, 2025 29:58

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CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the each week’s major news stories, and exposes what the mainstream media may have missed in their own coverage. Produced by the national media watch group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting). The post CounterSpin – August 31, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.…

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SOLVED! #20 - America’s Brain Drain: How Scientific Empires Fall 26:57

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Air Date: 8–28-25 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon, and Erin discuss: Ch. 1 - How scientific empires fall Ch. 2 - How fascists of the past have destroyed their country’s scientific progress in fear of inconvenient truths Ch. 3 - How other countries are taking the opportunity to poach American scientists Ch. 4 - Living in a society that is shifting away fr…

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Cathy Cowan Becker on Insurance and Climate Disasters, Aviva Chomsky (2016) on Workers’ Voices 27:53

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https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250829.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Other Words (7/30/25) This week on CounterSpin: Climate disruption and its predicted, measurable, life-altering impacts provides a clear example of an instance where countries and industries and sc…

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#1733 The Impossible Promise of Make American Healthy Again: MAHA vs MAGA 3:09:37

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Air Date 8/27/2025 RFK Jr. and the Make America Healthy Again movement aren't completely wrong about everything, they often identify the larger structural problems with the US health industrial complex even if their proposed solutions are wildly off the mark. But the problem they failed to see coming when partnering with Trump and the Republicans i…

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CounterSpin – August 24, 2025 29:58

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CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the each week’s major news stories, and exposes what the mainstream media may have missed in their own coverage. Produced by the national media watch group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting). The post CounterSpin – August 24, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.…

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#1732 It's Never Just About the Kids (Online Censorship, Age Verification, and the Project 2025 Agenda) 2:53:34

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Air Date 8/24/2025 The nature of politics and public policy is that there's always a need to balance opposing interests. Almost nowhere is there a more intractable set of opposing interests than in the attempt to protect children from harmful content on the internet while maintaining free access to adults, particularly because people wildly disagre…

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Joseph Torres on the FCC and Structural Racism 27:52

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https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250822.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Objective (7/18/25) This week on CounterSpin: Trump’s threats to media corporations are laying bare what many already knew: Media corporations are reliant on government for policies that benefit th…

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CounterSpin – September 21, 2025 29:58

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Matthew Cunningham-Cook on Criminalizing Witness, Tim Karr on Media Compliance 27:52

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#1739 The Charlie Kirk Assassination and the Plans to Weaponize It 3:29:37

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SOLVED! #22 - The Culture Wars at 10,000 Feet 18:51

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#1738 Escalations: Russia, Israel, And What We Are Allowed to Say About It 3:28:50

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#1737 State of the Resistance: Labor, Anger, and Knowing That We've Been Here Before 3:31:51

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CounterSpin – September 14, 2025 29:58

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Alex Main on Venezuelan Boat Assault 27:52

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#1736 Not the Opposition Party the Country Need Right Now 3:38:26

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#1735 Trump's Making Friends of Enemies and Enemies of Neighbors (Foreign and Domestic Wars) 3:48:33

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CounterSpin – September 7, 2025 29:58

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Elizabeth Jacobs on RFK Jr. and Public Health 27:52

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SOLVED! #21 - GerryF**ked: How to Fix Congressional Representation and End Homelessness 21:07

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#1567 How to Sell an Immoral Economic System to the Masses (Throwback) 1:03:13

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#1734 Where is the Revolutionary, Anti-Fascist Art? 3:11:37

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CounterSpin – August 31, 2025 29:58

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SOLVED! #20 - America’s Brain Drain: How Scientific Empires Fall 26:57

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Cathy Cowan Becker on Insurance and Climate Disasters, Aviva Chomsky (2016) on Workers’ Voices 27:53

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#1733 The Impossible Promise of Make American Healthy Again: MAHA vs MAGA 3:09:37

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CounterSpin – August 24, 2025 29:58

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#1732 It's Never Just About the Kids (Online Censorship, Age Verification, and the Project 2025 Agenda) 2:53:34

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Joseph Torres on the FCC and Structural Racism 27:52