CounterSpin – July 13, 2025

CounterSpin

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).

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CounterSpin – July 6, 2025

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).


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Adam Johnson on Media in War Mode

This week on CounterSpin: Prosecutors at the 1946 International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg declared: “War is essentially an evil thing. Its consequences are not confined to the belligerent states alone, but affect the whole world. To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing … Continued


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Michael Galant on Sanctions and Immigration / LaToya Parker on Budget’s Racial Impacts

This week on CounterSpin: We’ve always heard that racists hate quotas, yet Stephen Miller’s “3000 a day, however which way” mandate is terrorizing immigrant communities — brown immigrant communities — around the country. The response from people of conscience can look many ways: linking arms around people in danger, absolutely; vigorously disputing misinformation about immigrants, … Continued


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Chip Gibbons on Freeing Mahmoud Khalil / Farrah Hassen on Criminalizing Homelessness

This week on CounterSpin: Media are focused on public protests in LA but seem less interested in what’s making people angry. That’s in part about the federal government’s stated bid to capture and eject anyone who they determine “opposes U.S. foreign policy.” Protesters and witnesses and journalists in LA aren’t being shot at and thrown … Continued


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Tom Morello on Music as Protest

This week on CounterSpin: Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé and … Oprah? They’re among the entertainers in Trump’s sights for, it would seem, endorsing Kamala Harris in the election and, maybe, for saying something unflattering about him or his actions — which, in his brain, and that of the minions who’ve chosen to share that … Continued


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Mara Kronenfeld on Israel’s Aid Blockade

This week on CounterSpin: As part of its deadly denial of food, water, and medicine to Palestinian people, Israel attacked a civilian aid ship endeavoring to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza, setting it on fire, injuring crew members, cutting off communications. The ship was called the Conscience. Millions around the world ask every day what … Continued