CounterSpin

CounterSpin – July 7, 2017

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).


North Korea announced it has successfully tested the Hwasong-14, its first intercontinental ballistic missile. Christine Ahn with Women Cross the DMZ talks with Amy.  Ari Berman latest article in the Nation covers the path toward voter suppression, “The Trump Administration Is Planning an Unprecedented Attack on Voting Rights.” Rami Khouri about Saudi Arabia’s demands of Qatar, including closing … Continued


Your Own Health and Fitness

Sun and Aging

Former chemist Marie Veronique is a skin specialist with a line of completely natural skin care products. She discusses the problems with conventional sun screens, including nano technology products, the need for some daily sun, and how to feed and repair skin, check out if you want to know about Why do people bleach their … Continued


On today’s show, host Cat Brooks interviews Wesley Lowery, author of the book “They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement.” Lowery was the Washington Post’s lead reporter in Ferguson in 2014, and his book tries to tackle the magnitude of police violence on black people, and what these … Continued