Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s detains top opposition leaders in the dead of night. The Washington Post reports that President Donald Trump personally dictated the misleading statement his son initially issued last month about the June 2016 meeting he had with a Russian lawyer and others. As Donald Trump threatens to let Obamacare “implode”, Covered California … Continued


Chris Hedges has been telling truth to (and against) power since his earliest days as a radical journalist. He is an intellectual warrior who confronts American empire in the most incisive, challenging ways. The insights he provides into the deeply troubled state of our nation cannot be found anywhere else. Like many of our most … Continued


As the Senate prepares to vote to repeal Obamacare within two years without any immediate plan to replace it, access to life-saving healthcare hangs in the balance for tens of millions. We break from our fund drive format to bring you special coverage. Guests: Ken Jacobs, Chair of the UC Berkeley Labor Center Anthony Wright, Executive Director … Continued


This week on the IGD podcast, we speak again to long term anarchist writer and analyst Peter Gelderloos, as we look back at the last 6 months of the Trump regime. We discuss both the failure of Bannon and Trump’s ‘economic nationalism’ as automation and neoliberalism continue to attack jobs, mounting deportations and increasing repression, … Continued

CounterSpin

CounterSpin – July 21, 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).