This week on CounterSpin: We talk about what just happened, and corporate media’s role in it, with Julie Hollar, senior analyst at the media watch group FAIR, and FAIR’s editor Jim Naureckas. We also hear some of an important conversation we had with political scientist Dorothee Benz the day after the January 6 attack on the Capitol. Plus Janine Ja…

This week on CounterSpin: Reading the news today, you might not believe it, but there was a time, not long ago, in which it was acceptable to say out loud that immigration is a boon to this country, and immigrants should be welcomed and supported. Now, news media start with the premise of immigration itself as a “crisis,” with the only debate aroun…

This week on CounterSpin: Dropped by her law firm after being exposed as an advisor on the post-2020 election call where Donald Trump told Georgia officials to “find” him some votes, Cleta Mitchell has leaned in on the brand of “election integrity.” Platformed on right-wing talk radio, she’s now saying that Democrats are “literally getting people t…

The official death toll in Gaza is now roughly 43,000 people, very conservatively. As the Lancet and others remind, armed conflicts have indirect health implications beyond the direct harm from violence, including deaths from causes such as reproductive, communicable and non-communicable diseases. In Palestine, the death toll is exacerbated by disp…

This week on CounterSpin: For many people and for media, the idea of “racial discrimination in housing” invokes an image of individual landlords refusing to rent or sell homes to black and brown people. But that understanding is so incomplete as to be harmful. A new book doesn’t just illuminate the thicket of effects of systemic racism as it affect…

This week on CounterSpin: “How Hurricane Helene Could Impact Florida’s Home Insurance Crisis” was a recent Newsweek headline, on a story with a source saying smaller insurers were “especially in danger.” A layperson might wonder why events we pay insurance for should present a crisis for the industry we pay it to. Writer and historian Derek Seidman…

This week on CounterSpin: On September 17, thousands of handheld pagers exploded simultaneously across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was hundreds of walkie-talkies — part of an Israeli attack, intended for Hezbollah, that Israel’s defense minister called “the start of a new phase in the war.” Media dutifully reported the emerging toll of dead…

In this video, William Bisset interviews eight key speakers from the NZDSOS (New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science) conference, including renowned experts Dr. Paul Marik and Professor Angus Dalgleish. The conference, titled "Empowering Change: Methods, Motivation, and Evidence," delves into critical issues surrounding medical freedom, trans…

Join William Bisset from The Brilin Wellness Support Centre as he interviews Dr. Fre, a dentist and co-founder of NZDSOS (New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science). In this eye-opening discussion, they explore critical questions about modern dental practices: Is there such a thing as too much dentistry? Could common procedures be linked to oth…

This week on CounterSpin: Springfield, Ohio schools are facing bomb threats because some people believe that Haitian immigrants are stealing and eating dogs and cats. According to candidates for the country’s highest offices, and the KKK flyers showing up around town, this means that these legal immigrants should be pushed out of the country — or, …

This week on CounterSpin: Corporate U.S. news media continue to report things like Israel’s recent strike on the Gaza Strip, which killed at least 19 people in an area designated a “refuge” for Palestinians, and to include warnings of a possible wider war in the region. But there’s little sense of urgency, of something horrible happening that U.S. …

This week on CounterSpin: Corporate economic news can be so abstract that it’s disinforming even when it’s true. The big idea is that there’s something called “the U.S. economy” that can be doing well or poorly, which obscures the reality that we are differently situated, and good news for the stock market, say, may mean nothing, or worse, for me. …

This week on CounterSpin: The country’s largest and second-largest grocery store chains want to merge and, surprising no one, they claim that giving them that tremendous market power will lead to lower prices, better quality food, and better conditions for workers. The FTC says, hold on a second, how does that square with on-the-record statements t…

This week on CounterSpin: One of many things wrong with corporate news media is the way they hammer home the idea that the current system is the only system. If you don’t see yourself and your interests reflected in either of the two dominant parties, the problem is you. On the other hand, independent media gives us new questions to ask. For exampl…

This week on CounterSpin: Climate disruption is outpacing many scientists’ understanding of it, and it’s undeniably driving many harms we are facing: extreme heat, extreme cold, devastating hurricanes and tornadoes. News media are giving up pretending that these extreme weather events are just weird and not provably driven by the continued use of f…

Breaking! WEF Openly Announces Plan For Quarantines and Forced Injections Here is the link to the New Zealand Plan: https://health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/publications/interim_nz_pandemic_plan_v2.pdf Check out numbered page 125 (page 133 of the PDF) under Special Powers This will be BETA tested in New Zealand then implemented throughout the …

A sustained three-week propaganda campaign carried out by Liz Gunn, former New Zealand Loyal Party Leader against Kelvyn Alp, Hannah Spierer, and Counterspin Media, has necessitated this response. Liz Gunn arbitrarily shut down the New Zealand Loyal Party in violation of the party's constitution, opting instead to promote a 'New Zealand Loyal Peopl…

This week on CounterSpin: You don’t hear the phrase “free market capitalism” so much anymore, but the idea still tacitly undergirds much of what you do hear about why products and services are the way they are. We all know about corruption and cronyism, but we still accept that the company that “wins” — “cornering the market” — does so because peop…

This week on CounterSpin: Dog whistles are supposed to be silent except for those they’re intended to reach. But as listeners know, the right wing has gotten much more overt and loud about their intention to defeat the prospect of multiracial democracy. We unpack the latest weaponized trope — the “DEI hire” — with anti-racism educator and author Ti…

This week on CounterSpin: Donald Trump said, on Fox & Friends in 2020, that if voting access were expanded, meaning easing of barriers to voting for disabled people, poor people, rural people, working people … if voting were made easier, Trump said, “You’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.” Why wouldn’t news media label that st…

New allegations of child sex abuse at Auckland's Destiny Church have ignited a firestorm of concern, but is this a singular incident or a symptom of a far more sinister epidemic? Samantha Costello delves deeper into the church's troubled past, exposing a disturbing pattern of pedophilia among its leadership, including a shocking case where a childr…

This week on CounterSpin: In March, the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories concluded that “there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating Israel’s commission of genocide is met.” But as Greg Shupak writes, even as evidence accumulates, denial is becoming socially and journalistically accept…

This week on CounterSpin: At some point, we will get tired of hearing news reports on “record heat” — because the “records” will continue to be broken, and “heat” will have stopped meaning what it once may have meant. Media play a role in moving us from questions about where to buy a good air conditioner to what stands in the way of addressing a pu…

This week on CounterSpin: The power of the algorithm is ever clearer in our lives, even if we don’t understand it. Algorithms don’t just guess at what you might like to buy: sometimes they’re determining whether you get a job, or keep it. Some 40 million people in the U.S. use online platforms to find work. The algorithms these platforms use create…

This week on CounterSpin: Headlined “The Cash Monster Was Insatiable,” a 2022 New York Times piece reported insurance companies gaming Medicare Advantage, originally presented as a “low-cost” alternative to traditional Medicare. One company pressed doctors to add additional illnesses to the records of patients they hadn’t seen for weeks: Dig up eno…

This week on CounterSpin: Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito wrote dozens of pages justifying his decision in Dobbs v. Jackson, stating the Constitution does not confer the right to determine whether or when to give birth. None of those pages mention his intention to make the United States “a place of godliness,” or his belief that there can be no …

This week on CounterSpin: Donald Trump told a Las Vegas crowd earlier this month that, if elected, the “first thing” he would do would be to end the IRS practice of taxing tips as part of workers’ regular income. Unfortunately, Trump can count on a general haziness in the public mind on the impact of “tipped wages,” more helpfully labeled subminimu…

This week on CounterSpin: Surprising no one, Donald Trump and his sycophants responded to his 34-count conviction on charges of lying in business records by claiming that the trial was “rigged,” the judge and jury corrupt, and that it was somehow Joe Biden’s doing. We’ll talk with Matt Gertz, senior fellow at Media Matters, about press response to …

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In this Counterspin Media special report, Kelvyn Alp and Hannah Spierer are joined by Samantha Costello, to address the most recent scandal to rock Destiny Church. A Youth Leader has been accused of multiple counts of sexual abuse, towards several minors in his care. This episode focuses on Brian Tamaki's official response to the allegations. Evide…

This week on CounterSpin: In 2023, the California legislature passed legislation that said that big corporations doing business in the state have to tell the public how much pollution they’re emitting throughout their supply chain. But this past January, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other industry groups challenged those laws, claiming that mak…

This week on CounterSpin: As an historic catastrophe, the deep and myriad impacts of Israel’s assault on Palestinians will not be fully understood until years from now, if then. That only adds urgency to present-day resistance to the collateral assault — on the ability to witness, to record, and to remember. When we spoke with historian Ellen Schre…

Starting with the assassination attempt of Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico, this gripping short documentary lifts the veil on the nefarious deep state shadow entities who pull the strings of power from behind the scenes. With deadly consequences, they manipulate and control world events to further their sinister agenda. From demolition and wea…

This week on CounterSpin: Steven Rosenfeld reports on election transparency, among other electoral issues, for Voting Booth. We hear from him about kinds of election interference we ignore at our peril. Some elite media-designated “smart people” have determined, “Citizens United, what? It’s folks who give ten bucks to a candidate that are really me…

This week on CounterSpin: CNN’s Jake Tapper is mad about college students protesting their institutions’ and their government’s support for Israel’s horrific attacks on Palestinians in Gaza — because they’re preventing him, by his account, from covering Israel’s horrific attacks on Palestinians in Gaza. Tapper and CNN, we’re to understand, are powe…

Episode 100 - Nick Patterson: I Fought the Law & the LAW LOST! In this episode we cover police brutality. The big story this week in NZ was the Free NZ trial. We bring you up to speed on what has happened to Liz Gunn & Jonathan Clark. Following that we delve into the big story across the ditch, where a win against the system should put some wind in…

Barbara O'Neill is big pharma's worst nightmare. She dares to tell you what you need to know to live a healthier & happier lifestyle free from unnecessary drugs. This has led to coordinated smear campaigns against her which resulted in the tyrannical Australian government giving her a lifetime ban from speaking or giving advice in Australia. She is…

We’re now seeing the impacts of the reality that corporate media, as well as corporate-funded universities, will always side with official power — as they present students sitting quietly in tents in protest of genocide as violent terrorists. But in fact, we’ve been seeing it for decades, as corporate media spin narratives about people of color as …

This week on CounterSpin: Many college students appear to believe that learning about the world means not just gaining knowledge but acting on it. Campuses across the country — Rutgers, MIT, Ohio State, Boston University, Emerson, Tufts, and on and on — are erupting in protest over their institutions’ material support for Israel’s war on Palestinia…

Direct Energy Weapons are being used more and more frequently, as the globalists continue their onslaught upon humanity. Cities that don't comply with their tyrannical demands, are finding themselves utterly devastated by DEW inflicted earthquakes, fires, storms and floods. However - as UK DEW expert Mark Steele explains to Samantha Costello, their…

Tanya Lat - Philippines Tanya Lat is a lawyer and professor of legal ethics in the Philippines. She feels that in the Philippines, many people believe we’re in a spiritual war, a battle between good and evil. These are the people in the Philippines who are awake, but they're not the elites, not the educated. They're ordinary security guards, street…

Ken O'Keefe, a former US Marine and Gulf war veteran, doesn't hold back when highlighting the criminality of the 'system', Zionist Israel and his view on the current status of the US and the genocide taking place in Gaza, among other thoughts. “It just seems like genocide attracts me for whatever reason. Hawaii’s got a genocide going on since 1843,…

TNT Radio Host Johnny Vedmore talks about his transition into investigative journalism after finding himself at a crossroad. One of his first ventures was a deep look into Klaus Schwab and then into the World Economic Forum’s Young Leaders program. He also drops a few info-nuggets in relation to the Jeffrey Epstein saga and other high level corrupt…

Kelvyn and Hannah are joined by New Zealander Mark Quinn as he outlines his plan for 'Challenging Councils New Zealand'. Mark exposes the corruption and unlawful nature of councils in a direct and confronting way. He refers to the transition to 'Operation Tipping Point,' for direct action. This connects to the great work undertaken by 'The Law Coun…

This week on CounterSpin: The long-fought effort to get legal acknowledgement of the abuses of Iraqi detainees during the Iraq War is coming to a federal court in Virginia, with Al-Shimari v. CACI. Since the case was first filed in 2008, military contractor CACI has pushed some 20 times to have it dismissed. We got a reading on the case last year f…

A very young looking 77 year old, retired Microbiologist Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi joins Kelvyn and Hannah to highlight the dangers of the 'Covid-19 vaccine’, and he’s not shy about calling out where criminal liability lies, including the New Zealand government and its agencies. While he does not subscribe to the “no virus” theory like others on the Trut…

Former pharmaceutical and medical device R&D executive Sasha Latypova joins Kelvyn and Hannah to outline the corruption within the pharmaceutical industry and its ties to alphabet agencies and agendas. She highlights how many safeguards are bypassed when bringing new 'vaccines' to the marketplace, exposing Covid-19 myths and implications for health…

Infowars.com contributor Greg Reese, the master of the information-packed mini documentary, joins Kelvyn and Hannah to discuss his work. Greg provides an insight into his inquisitive mind and he says the more he learns, the less he knows. Greg has undertaken many deep-dives into a vast range of subjects and has come to the conclusion that the major…

Do viruses exist? That is the question! Kelvyn and Hannah are joined by Dr. Mark Bailey (a microbiology, medical industry and health researcher who worked in medical practice, including clinical trials, for two decades) to discuss the existence, or more to the point, the non-existence of 'viruses'. Mark makes compelling arguments for the non-existe…

Counterspin contributor, Samantha Costello, Health New Zealand whistleblower Barry Young, and James Roguski, a man detirmined to Stop the WHO... dissect the World Health Organisation, and other Globalists. James is an expert on the upcoming International Health Regulation Amendments, as well as the Pandemic Treaty. These two instruments are set to …