Once, the internet was a utopia, a new intellectual commons. Then it was a goldmine, where new businesses would stake their claim. For the past couple years, we’ve been been covering it as a swamp – a convening ground for trolls and Nazis, a platform for disinformation and and fake news, an impressive tool for … Continued
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).
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.
Mitch Jeserich talks to Yasha Levine about the secret origins of the internet, tracing it back to a Pentagon counterinsurgency surveillance project. Yasha Levine is an investigative journalist for Pando Daily, a San Francisco-based news magazine focused on covering the politics and power of big tech. He is the author of the book Surveillance Valley: The Secret … Continued
Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.
Today we are in conversation with Vegas Tenold. He embedded himself with members of three of America’s most ideologically extreme white nationalist groups-the KKK, the National Socialist Movement, and the Traditionalist Workers Party. Vegas Tenold is an award-winning journalist. He has covered the far right in America for years, as well as human rights in Russia, conflict … Continued
Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.
Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.
Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.
