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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. Combines lively discussion and thoughtful critique. Produced by the national media watch group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting).
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Counterspin is New Zealand’s media revolution, hosted by Kelvyn Alp and Hannah Spierer. We pride ourselves on being unscripted, authentic & funded by the people, for the people. We certainly are not propagandist lap-dogs for ANY particular individual, group or organisation. And we make no apologies for our biased commitment to truth.
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This week on CounterSpin: Climate disruption is the prime mover of a cascade of interrelated crises. We’re told that, when it comes to problems people need solved, rule number 1 is “follow the money.” Yet even as elite media talk about the climate crisis, they still … can’t … quite …connect images of floods or fires to the triumphant shareholder me…
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In this episode, Samantha Costello (formerly Samantha Edwards) reports from the New Zealand First Party's "State of the Nation" speech delivered by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters in Palmerston North on March 17th, 2024. Samantha was joined at the event by Health New Zealand jab data whistleblower Barry Young and h…
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This week on CounterSpin: About this time seven years ago, John Deere was arguing, with a straight face, that farmers shouldn’t really “own” their tractors, because if they had access to the software involved, they might pirate Taylor Swift music. Things have changed since then, though industry still gets up and goes to court to say that even thoug…
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Tim Kirby from Russia Hardcore speaks with Counterspin Media's Kelvyn Alp about his recent trip to Moscow to attend the Second Annual congress of The Russophile Movement. In this revealing interview, Kelvyn provides his position on various topics in his usual no-nonsense way. Find Tim Kirby here: Tim Kirby Russia Hardcore on Telegram: https://t.me/…
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This week on CounterSpin: Donald Trump, if he should become president again, could order the Department of Justice to drop any charges against him stemming from his fomenting of an insurrection aimed at overturning the results of the 2020 election. That’s just been enabled by the Supreme Court, which put off until April the legal case wherein Trump…
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Right to Truth - The William Bisset Report #9 Brace yourselves for a gripping revelation that could reshape the very fabric of our nation! In this groundbreaking video, William and Ross delve into the ominous reality of Smart Cities, exposing a potential threat that looms large over New Zealand. Imagine a future where the very essence of democracy,…
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This week on CounterSpin: Years ago, when media critics called attention to ways corporate media’s profit-driven nature negatively impacts the news, many would respond, “But what about the internet?” Nowadays, more people understand that constraints on a news outlet’s content have little to do with whether it’s on paper or online but on who owns it…
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Our Special Assignment in Russia continues. Whilst the Multipolarity Forum has wrapped up, Kelvyn will stay a few extra days in Moscow. In this despatch we have his interview with a Doctor from Thailand who has inside knowledge about the medical condition and treatment of the Thai Princess, who looks to have been jab injured. In addition, we invite…
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Moscow for a few more days reinforcing his new contacts. Meanwhile he makes a return to the Alex Jones Show to comment on Russia, Ukraine war and other key items on the geopolitical landscape. =================================================== This, and all previous episodes are available here: https://counterspinmedia.com/resources-videos/ Please…
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Counterspin was invited to attend The Second Congress of the Movement and Multipolarity Forum in Moscow. It was organised by the International Russophile Movement and supported by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Administration of the President of Russia. Today we update you on Kelvyn’s second and final day at the conference. Kelvyn …
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Today we update you on Kelvyn’s first official day at The Multipolarity Forum, the Second Congress of the International Russophile Movement convened in Moscow. Kelvyn has met many different people from many walks of life, all wanting the same thing, to free their people from the clutches of the globalists. Many topics were discussed, in this despat…
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Every day the US falls more out of step with the world in its support for Israel’s violent assault on Gaza. As International human rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber said, US vetoes of ceasefires in the UN Security Council, after which thousands more were killed, mean the US is directly responsible for those deaths: “Complicity is a crime.” Many in the U…
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Counterspin is the biggest threat to the New Zealand deep state. Imagine how crazy the they will be when they see us in Russia. Kelvyn Alp is on our biggest global assignment yet, with Operation Moscow! Counterspin was invited to attend a conference in Moscow hosted by the International Russophile Movement. We have dreamed of going to Russia to bri…
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People with disabilities are meant to be grateful, excited even, for whatever access or accommodation is made available for them to participate in daily life. Often, it’s implied that any violation of the rights of disabled people is an individual matter, to be fought over in the courts, instead of something to be acknowledged and addressed societa…
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This week on CounterSpin: The rate of inflation is down. Prices, though, are still high, and Americans are struggling to afford food, cars and housing. Speaking of people having trouble affording basic necessities, “cut up the credit cards” is the sort of advice that politicians and pundits dole out and that corporate news media presents as a respe…
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This week on CounterSpin: The Supreme Court ruled that federal agents can remove the razor wire that Texas state officials have set up along parts of the US/Mexico border. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said that ruling “allows Biden to continue his illegal effort to aid the foreign invasion of America.” Elite news media, for their part, suggest…
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This week on CounterSpin: Elite media can give the impression that problems wax and wane along with their attention to them. So it is with police brutality. The news media has moved on, yet 2023 saw killings by law enforcement up from the previous year, which was up from the year before that. More than 1,200 people were killed, roughly three people…
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This week on CounterSpin: US corporate news media’s initial response to Israel’s terror campaign against Palestinians, unleashed in the wake of the October 7 attack by Hamas, was characterized largely by legitimization, a rhetorical blank check for whatever Israel might do. Israel, the New York Times editorial board said, “is determined to break th…
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This week on CounterSpin: The journalists at Yahoo Finance tell us that a Connecticut McDonald’s charging $18 for a combo meal has “sparked a nationwide debate” on escalating prices in the fast food industry. The outrage, readers are told, is “partly attributed” to a recent raise in the minimum wage — which has not yet gone into effect. From there,…
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This week on CounterSpin: It was a big deal when Jewish Americans who oppose US support for Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza filled New York’s Grand Central Terminal. But not big enough to make the front page of the local paper, the New York Times. US journalists invoke the First Amendment a lot, but not so much when it extends to regular folks using…
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Every week, CounterSpin presents a look “behind the headlines” of the mainstream news. Not because headlines are false, necessarily, but because the full story is rarely reflected there. Many — most — conversations we need to have, must happen around corporate news media, while deconstructing and re-imagining the discourse they’re pumping out, day …
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People in the U.S., the story goes, value few things more than individual freedom and money. So you’d think the way an individual uses their money would be sacrosanct. A sign of where we’re at are currently congressional efforts to put people in prison, and fine them millions of dollars, for choosing not to buy products from countries that are not …
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On Sunday 17th December, 2023, Kiwis across the nation attended a Picnic for Barry Young, the New Zealand Ministry of Health jJab Data Whistleblower, the day before he is due to enter a not guilty plea in Wellington District Court. The main event was held in Barry’s hone city of Wellington, but people gathered across the country to show their suppo…
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This week on CounterSpin: UN Climate talks have ended with an agreement that, as New York Times headlines would suggest, “Strikes a Deal to Transition Away From Fossil Fuels.” Headlines, which are all that many people read, are often misleading, and sometimes they aggressively deflect from the point of the story, which in this case is that everyone…
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This week on CounterSpin: As we record on December 7, the news from Gaza continues to be horrific: The Washington Post reports, citing Gaza Health Ministry reports, that Israel’s continued assault throughout the region has killed at least 350 people in the past 24 hours, which brings the death toll of the Israeli military campaign, launched after t…
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After the publication of data leaked from New Zealand’s quaintly named Te Whatu Ora (Health New Zealand - a division of the Ministry of Health), on Thursday 30th November (NZDT) the New Zealand government has been left scrambling to cover this event up by limiting media coverage in New Zealand and even claiming they have injunctions to prevent all …
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This week on CounterSpin: “Abortion Politics Reveal Concerns” was the headline one paper gave a recent Associated Press story, language so bland it almost discourages reading the piece, which reports how right-wing politicians and anti-abortion activists are seeking to undermine or undo democratic processes when those processes accurately reflect t…
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This week on CounterSpin: The new president of Argentina opposes abortion rights, casts doubt on the death toll of the country’s military dictatorship, would like it to be easier to access handguns and calls climate change a “lie of socialism.” Many were worried about what Javier Milei would bring, but, the Washington Post explained: “Anger won ove…
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This week on CounterSpin: Coverage of what is quite possibly not the most recent mass shooting, as we record the show, but the recent one in Lewiston, Maine, leaned heavily on a narrative of the assailant as a “textbook case” of a shooter, because he had some history of mental illness. FAIR’s Olivia Riggio wrote about how that storyline not only ge…
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March 15th, 2019, was a shocking and tragic day - one that many New Zealanders remember as our "darkest day". The official record shows that Australian citizen Brenton Tarrant killed 51 people and wounded 40 others when he carried out mass shootings at two Christchurch mosques – the Masjid an-Nur on Deans Ave and the Linwood Islamic Centre .. Since…
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This week on CounterSpin: Corporate news media use at least a couple of largely unexplored lenses through which to present US human rights violations. One is this: The US does not commit human rights violations, except by accident, or as unavoidable collateral for an ultimately net-gain mission, be that international or domestic. The other is this:…
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This week on CounterSpin: Elite media are fond of saying that the US is resetting its Middle East policy. During the 2020 campaign, the New York Times explained, Joe Biden pledged, if elected, to stop coddling Saudi Arabia, after the brutal murder of prominent dissident and Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi. “We are not going to, in fact,…
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This week on CounterSpin: Advertising critics have long noted that a company’s PR tells you, inadvertently but reliably, exactly what their problems are. The ad features salmon splashing in crystalline waters? That company is for sure a massive polluter. That’s the lump of salt with which to take the recent announcement from the US Department of He…
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This week on CounterSpin: Government-supplied food assistance has been around in various forms since at least the Great Depression, but never with the straightforward goal of easing hunger. 1930s posters about food stamps declare, “We are helping the farmers of America move surplus foods”; that link between agriculture industry support and nutritio…
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This week on CounterSpin: In the wake of the October 7 attacks by Hamas and the ensuing bombing campaign from Israel on the Gaza Strip, many people were surprised that CNN‘s Fareed Zakaria aired an interview with a Palestinian activist who frankly described the daily human rights violations in Gaza, the right of Palestinians to resist occupation an…
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This week on CounterSpin: The LA Times’ Michael Hiltzik is one of vanishingly few national reporters to suggest that if media care about crime, if they care about people having things stolen from them—maybe they could care less about toasters and more about lives? As in, the billions of dollars that are snatched from working people’s pockets every …
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This week on CounterSpin: You can’t say elite US news media aren’t on the story of the federal indictment of Robert Menendez, Democratic chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But articles like the New York Times’ “As Menendez’s Star Rose, Fears of Corruption Cast a Persistent Shadow” represent media embrace of the “great man of history” …
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This week on CounterSpin: An unprecedented labor action is underway as thousands of Midwest autoworkers working for the Big 3—Ford, GM and Stellantis (which used to be Chrysler)—went on strike at the same time. Some things workers are calling for may sound familiar: a pay raise for workers that bears relation to raises that owners have generously g…
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This week on CounterSpin: New Yorkers who were here 22 years ago remember the proliferation of signs and stickers reading “our grief is not a cry for war”—and then the way that voice was shouted over by corporate news media, calling for war crimes with US flags on their lapels. Hosting old general after old general, as peace and human rights activi…
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This week on CounterSpin: The White House has announced it’s extending the ban on people using US passports to go to North Korea. Corporate media seem to find it of little interest; who wants to go to North Korea? Which fairly reflects media’s disinterest in the tens of thousands of Korean Americans who might want to visit family in North Korea, al…
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This week on CounterSpin: It is back to school week in the US. Schools—pre-K to college—have been on the front burner for at least a year now, but education has always been a contested field in this country: Who has access? What does it teach? What is its purpose? Do my kids have to go to school with those kids? So while what’s happening right now …
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Hannah rejoins Kelvyn to host Counterspin, after 4 months dedicated to their baby boy Storm. In this episode we are joined by former United States Marine Corps intelligence officer, former United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) weapons inspector Scott Ritter. Scott is an expert in geopolitics and offers compelling evidence to prove that the war…
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