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  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260109.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   AP (1/6/26) This week on CounterSpin: For millions of people around the globe, the US under the administration of convicted felon Donald Trump has acted—it’s beyond “illegal”; it’s sort of “a-legal,” as if laws meant nothing—they’ve kidnapped the... Read more »

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260102.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   The Best of CounterSpin for 2025 features Silky Shah on mass deportations, Gregory Shupak on the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, Paul Offit on RFK Jr.’s pro-virus policies, Karen Thompson on policing pregnancy, Erin Reed on anti-trans pseudo-science, Farrah... Read more »

https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin251226.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   AAPF (10/25) This week on CounterSpin: After every police killing of a Black person, every announced policy singling out Black immigrants as the cause of crime and disorder, every declaration, like that from Arlington National Cemetery, that as of... Read more »

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin251219.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   Truthout (12/8/25) This week on CounterSpin: Forbes reports the Starbucks workers strike as you might expect: “The company claims it already offers the ‘best job in retail.’ … Yet the union is demanding….” “The company says, ‘We’re ready... Read more »

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin251212.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   Popular Information (12/8/25) This week on CounterSpin: If you see no problem in news outlets reporting on desperately horrific conditions in Gaza, and what various political entities are doing or could do to address them, while a ticker... Read more »

  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 a successful operation. Locals on the ground... Read more »

  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 LA Times put on an AP... Read more »

  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 here’s a fun fact, as... Read more »

  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 perhaps mistimed, but that doesn’t mean it’s... Read more »

This essay argues that control of the global oil trade is a core instrument of U.S. power, underpinning dollar-based finance and coercive diplomacy. It frames sanctions, blockades, asset seizures, and regime-change operations as tools to keep rivals and non-aligned states dependent on energy routes, pricing, and payments channels dominated by... Read more »

⁣GLENN DIESEN: Welcome back to the show. We are joined today by Professor Michael Hudson to discuss the U.S. national security strategy and the unraveling of the post-World War II economic order. So thank you very much for coming on the program. ⁣MICHAEL HUDSON: Thanks for having me back in... Read more »

Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff dissect the United States’ new National Security Strategy, arguing that America’s pursuit of security through global control is accelerating de dollarisation, fragmenting Europe, and exposing the contradictions of finance capitalism in a multipolar world. The post How U.S. Security Became a Global Risk first appeared... Read more »

Zohran Mamdani’s New York victory lands as a national warning shot: young voters abandoning establishment Democrats, donor politics exposed, and a new fault line opening around oligarchy, war, and party control. Hudson and Wolff argue the backlash is less about policy details than power, with municipal socialism becoming a staging... Read more »

Europe’s economic crisis is increasingly driven by political decisions rather than market forces. This analysis examines EU energy policy, frozen Russian assets, deindustrialisation, and growing dependence on the United States, with insights from economists Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff on why Europe’s current trajectory is economically unsustainable. The post Frozen... Read more »

An analysis of why the so-called US–NATO ceasefire proposal functions as a political narrative rather than a genuine peace initiative. Michael Hudson argues the plan is designed to shape public opinion, manage blame, and secure postwar leverage over assets, accountability, and history, rather than to end the war in Ukraine.... Read more »

    ⁣NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, December 11, 2025, and our dear friends, Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson, are here with us. Welcome back, Richard and Michael. ⁣MICHAEL HUDSON: Good to be back. ⁣RICHARD WOLFF: Good to be here. ⁣NIMA ALKHORSHID: Please subscribe and hit the like... Read more »

⁣NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody. Today is Wednesday, November 26, 2025, and our dear friend, Michael Hudson, is here with us. Welcome back, Michael. ⁣MICHAEL HUDSON: It’s good to be back. ⁣NIMA ALKHORSHID: Please subscribe and hit the like button to help us reach more people. And you can see Michael... Read more »

⁣NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, November 20th, 2025, and our dear friends, Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson, are here with us. Welcome back, Richard and Mike. ⁣RICHARD WOLFF: Glad to be here. ⁣NIMA ALKHORSHID: Please subscribe and hit the like button.  You can follow Michael Hudson by going... Read more »

The Trump administration’s offensive against immigrants in Minneapolis—and those who seek to help them—continued to intensify Wednesday night and into Thursday after a federal agent shot another person during an immigration operation.  President Donald Trump, in a Thursday morning Truth social post, threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act—a centuries-old law... Read more »

This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking a major step toward changing its math to favor polluters over people: It’s going to stop tallying up the dollar value of lives saved and hospital visits avoided by air... Read more »

One of the oddest occurrences in the Trump administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein imbroglio was the trip that Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, took in July to Tallahassee, Florida, to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell, who’s serving a 20-year sentence for procuring underage girls, some as young as 14,... Read more »

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) decried Republican efforts to discredit medication abortion in an interview Wednesday with Mother Jones, saying that “the only reason they’re going after mifepristone is because it is the way most women get their abortive care.” Mifepristone is one of the pills used in medication abortion, which... Read more »

Trump’s pursuit of Greenland is becoming increasingly unpopular: Denmark, Greenland, many NATO allies, and even some Republican lawmakers are in direct opposition. Denmark’s foreign minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, said there is a “fundamental disagreement” with the Trump administration after he and his Greenland counterpart met with JD Vance and Marco... Read more »

At the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions’s abortion pills hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri spent the whole of his allotted time reiterating disinformation about transgender people. And, this isn’t the first time he’s utilized a hearing about reproductive healthcare to do so.  During an... Read more »

In a big win for Democrats, a federal court panel on Wednesday upheld a new voter-approved congressional map in California that was designed to give Democrats five new seats in the U.S. House, offsetting the mid-decade gerrymander passed by Texas Republicans over the summer. Republicans challenged the map after voters... Read more »

After a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed Renée Good in Minneapolis last Wednesday, Trump administration officials were quick to come out in the agent’s defense. Violent interactions with the public aren’t surprising, a former ICE official said of the agency under Trump. “That’s sort of by... Read more »

In Iran, millions of protesters have taken to the streets to protest the repressive religious regime that has ruled the country for more than four decades. The response of the government, led by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been swift and brutal, with thousands of protesters reportedly killed. All over the... Read more »