Best CounterSpin Podcasts (2025)

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CounterSpin – December 7, 2025

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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 – December 7, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.…

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Alex Main on Honduran Election 27:52

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https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin251205.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). CEPR (12/2/25) This week on CounterSpin: A militarized US Drug Enforcement Administration force declared they’d taken out drug traffickers in the Caribbean, killing some of them in what was sold as…

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SOLVED! FROM THE ARCHIVES! - "Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted" (Original Air Date: 5-26-24) 1:02:23

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Re-Air Date: 12–2-25 Unless you were a member in May of 2024, this episode of SOLVED! will be brand new to you! If you were a member back then, THANK YOU and this one is worth a re-listen. We're slowing down production for a little bit to reorganize our production processes, so enjoy this episode from our archives (and B.Y: before YouTube) where Ja…

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#1605 Our Prison System is a Demonstrable Failure (Throwback) 1:02:42

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Original Air Date: 1-23-2024 The recent discovery of hundreds of bodies buried behind a jail in unmarked graves sparks a renewed discussion about the futility and counter-productiveness of our system of incarceration and the context of our history that has brought us to this point. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991, me…

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#1755 Affordability: Actual Economic Populism is the Kryptonite to Fake Populism 2:53:44

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Air Date 12/2/2025 If you need more evidence for just how far from rationality our politics have slid in recent decades, Zorhan Mamdani is seen by many as a radical for mostly just saying that people should be able to afford to buy the things they need to live. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991, message us on Signal at…

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SOLVED! SAMPLE! #28 - Big White Lies: The Impossible Promises of Supremacy 21:03

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Air Date: 11-25-25 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon, and Erin discuss: Ch. 1 - The extremists trying to create race-based neighborhoods all over the U.S. Ch. 2 - What we can learn from Ireland's history of sectarian violence Ch. 3 - How the Irish became white Ch. 4 - An inconvenient truth from Frederick Douglas (and some modern, mild misreadings) Ch. 5 - …

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CounterSpin – November 30, 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 – November 30, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.…

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Jean Su on Challenging COP30 Narratives 27:52

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https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin251128.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Opening ceremony for COP30 in Belem, Brazil (photo: Palácio do Planalto) This week on CounterSpin: US media didn’t exactly mince words: “Climate Summit Viewed as Flop by Many” was the headline the …

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#1354 Police violence and racism are a product of our past (Uprising, Crackdown, Authoritarianism) (Throwback) 2:30:03

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Original Air Date: 6–22-2020 Today we take a look at the history of racist policing which flows seamlessly into our present racist policing which itself flows into Trump's authoritarian glee at the opportunity to consolidate violent, racist power in response to protests against violent, racist power. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text …

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#1754 The Epstein Files and Donald Trump, Our Predator-in-Chief 2:38:24

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Air Date 11/25/2025 We live in a world awash with baseless conspiracy theories but that doesn't mean there are no true conspiracies, as exemplified by Jeffrey Epstein. But it bears repeating, that we didn't need the exposure of a massive conspiracy to know that Donald Trump was a sexual predator because he said as much on tape before he was elected…

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SOLVED! FROM THE ARCHIVES - "The Truth Shall Set Us Free" (Original Air Date: 12-6-24) 1:25:46

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Re-Air Date: 11–18-25 Unless you were a member in December of 2024, this episode of SOLVED! will be brand new to you! If you were a member back then, THANK YOU and this one is worth a re-listen. We're slowing down production for a little bit to reorganize our production processes, so enjoy this episode from our archives (and B.Y: before YouTube) wh…

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CounterSpin – November 23, 2025 29:57

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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 – November 23, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.…

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Crystal FitzSimons on SNAP and Public Understanding 27:52

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https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin251121.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Foodtank (7/25) This week on CounterSpin: Corporate news media have vilified people who use public assistance, and lied about why they need it, almost like it’s their job. Today is nothing new. But…

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#1753 What the Shutdown and Weaponized Hunger Exposed About Our Asymmetric Morality 3:59:13

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Air Date 11/21/2025 In an ethical political system, being willing to break the law in order to starve people amid a political dispute wouldn't be a source of greater leverage and power but it is in ours and the shutdown put the wildly different senses of ethics between the parties on full display. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at …

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SOLVED! SAMPLE! #27 - Watch what you say! How weaponized language changes our reality 20:13

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Air Date: 11-10-25 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon, and Erin discuss: Ch. 1 - "Pull yourself up by your bootstraps" Ch. 2 - "Politically correct" Ch. 3 - "Ethnic cleansing" Ch. 4 - "Meritocracy" Ch. 5 - Our current "wealth pump" crisis and how it has been solved throughout history BACKSTAGE! Beyond the Algorithm (Members Only!): The best words to articul…

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CounterSpin – November 16, 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 – November 16, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.…

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#1752 Reigniting the Nuclear Arms Race: Fat Man, Little Boy, and Donald Trump 3:24:04

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Air Date 11/7/2025 The most dangerous part of nuclear weapons has always been the people in charge of them. As we potentially enter a new arms race, some of the worst people in the world are in charge of the vast majority of nuclear weapons. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991, message us on Signal at the handle bestofth…

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Gene Slater (2022), Richard Rothstein (2015) and George Lipsitz (2024) on Housing and Media 27:52

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https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin251114.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). CNN (11/11/25) This week on CounterSpin: The palace intrigue around the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Bill Pulte, soft-launching the idea of a 50-year mortgage suggests the reveal was…

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#1751 Monthly-ish Mix: Institutions Fall, Reality Breaks, Empire Rises 3:47:06

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Air Date: 11/11/25 The Monthly-ish Mix™ is here to get you caught up on recent news without being overwhelming! This month we examine how power is being quietly consolidated across institutions, how propaganda and AI are reshaping our sense of reality, and how division and fear are fueling both domestic repression and global aggression. From the Su…

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CounterSpin – November 9, 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 – November 9, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.…

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#1750 "America's Backyard" - The War on Terror Meets the War on Drugs 3:05:57

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Air Date 11/7/2025 The United States claiming a divine (and imperialist) right to tamper in the politics of South American countries is nothing new. As is so often the case with Trump, the biggest difference is that he's doing proudly and in the open what used to be done only shamefully and in secret. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text…

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Madiba Dennie on Voting Rights Act in Danger 27:52

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https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin251107.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Balls & Strikes (10/13/25) This week on CounterSpin: There is an argument evidently compelling to some: Yes, Black people have been enslaved and excluded and discriminated against for decades, such…

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CounterSpin – December 7, 2025

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Alex Main on Honduran Election 27:52

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SOLVED! FROM THE ARCHIVES! - "Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted" (Original Air Date: 5-26-24) 1:02:23

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#1605 Our Prison System is a Demonstrable Failure (Throwback) 1:02:42

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#1755 Affordability: Actual Economic Populism is the Kryptonite to Fake Populism 2:53:44

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SOLVED! SAMPLE! #28 - Big White Lies: The Impossible Promises of Supremacy 21:03

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CounterSpin – November 30, 2025 29:58

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Jean Su on Challenging COP30 Narratives 27:52

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#1354 Police violence and racism are a product of our past (Uprising, Crackdown, Authoritarianism) (Throwback) 2:30:03

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#1754 The Epstein Files and Donald Trump, Our Predator-in-Chief 2:38:24

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SOLVED! FROM THE ARCHIVES - "The Truth Shall Set Us Free" (Original Air Date: 12-6-24) 1:25:46

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CounterSpin – November 23, 2025 29:57

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Crystal FitzSimons on SNAP and Public Understanding 27:52

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#1753 What the Shutdown and Weaponized Hunger Exposed About Our Asymmetric Morality 3:59:13

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SOLVED! SAMPLE! #27 - Watch what you say! How weaponized language changes our reality 20:13

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CounterSpin – November 16, 2025 29:58

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#1752 Reigniting the Nuclear Arms Race: Fat Man, Little Boy, and Donald Trump 3:24:04

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Gene Slater (2022), Richard Rothstein (2015) and George Lipsitz (2024) on Housing and Media 27:52

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#1751 Monthly-ish Mix: Institutions Fall, Reality Breaks, Empire Rises 3:47:06

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CounterSpin – November 9, 2025 29:58

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#1750 "America's Backyard" - The War on Terror Meets the War on Drugs 3:05:57

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Madiba Dennie on Voting Rights Act in Danger 27:52