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) Laura Carlsen, director, America's Program of the Center for International Policy, discusses the political circumstances surrounding Donald's Trump's recent visit to meet with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, and assesses the many contradictory and disturbing statements made by Trump regarding U.S. immigration policy during the 2016 election campaign.

2) James S. Henry, is a lawyer and investigative journalist who is the former chief economist at McKinsey & Co. He currently serves as a senior fellow at Columbia University's Center for Sustainable International Investment and a senior adviser to the Tax Justice Network. Henry examines the European Union's demand that Apple pay back-taxes to Ireland, and the larger issue of corporate tax avoidance here in the U.S. and around the world.

3) Norman Solomon co-founder of RootsAction.org, founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy and author of "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death" and "Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State," talks about his recent article that assesses Bernie Sander's new national political organization titled, "The Debut of 'Our Revolution:' Great Potential. But..."

4) Yale University graduate students talk about the recent National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruling that recognizes graduate assistants at private universities are employees, and have a right to union representation -- they'll also discuss the recent filing of a petition seeking union certification with Local 33 of UNITE-HERE at Yale.

5) WPKN producer Melinda Tuhus talks about a local protest on Sept. 7th in New Haven at TD Bank in solidarity with opponents of the Access oil pipeline in North Dakota. More info at https://nodaplsolidarity.org

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