Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris, is heard every Monday night on WPKN 89.5 FM, Bridgeport, CT between 8:00 - 10:00 pm ET. Webstreaming and audio archive at http://wpkn.org

1) Excerpt of a talk by Tariq Ali, a British writer and filmmaker, speaking at the 2016 Left Forum conference in NYC, on the topic of the growing worldwide movement resisting rising economic inequality and austerity.

2) Excerpt of a September 2013 interview with Jeremy Scahilll, Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker, journalist and author, who talks about his book, "Dirty Wars, The World is a Battlefield,"

3) Philip Weiss, founder and co-editor of the online publication, Mondoweiss that covers Middle East issues, examines the controversy created when Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appointed far right, extremist Avigdor Lieberman as Israeli Defense Minister -- and the effort by representatives of Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, who serve on the Democratic Party platform drafting committee, to push for a more even-handed U.S. approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

4) Lindsay Matthews, the mother of a developmentally disabled son, and a member of Our Families Can't Wait - SEIU 1199, talks about the impact of State of CT budget cuts -- and the Department of Developmental Services (DDS) plan to sell off the care of disabled individuals to private, for profit corporations in the health care “industry,” which will eventually end all public funding of DDS services.

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