Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris, is heard every Monday night on WPKN 89.5 FM, Bridgeport, CT between 8:00 – 9:30 pm ET. Webstreaming and audio archive at http://wpkn.org

1) Abdul Jabbar, Emeritus Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, English, and World Literature at City College of San Francisco discusses the Intercept's recent report “Secret Pakistan Cable Documents U.S. Pressure to Remove Imran Khan” that examines the U.S. State Department's determination to remove Pakistan's Prime Minister Khan from power, that occurred in April 2022, reportedly because of his neutrality on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

2) Chris Lehmann is the D.C. Bureau chief for The Nation magazine, and a contributing editor at The Baffler, talks about his recent Nation article, "The Press Can’t Wait to Do 2016 All Over Again," and other issues related to corporate media's coverage of Donald Trump's state and federal indictments and the 2024 presidential election campaign.

3) Benjy Renton, Research Assistant with Ariadne Labs at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, discusses the challenge of securing reliable data on the spread of new COVID variants, and his work establishing the new COVID-19 Metrics Dashboard of relevant COVID data for public health officials, physicians and researchers. He'll also offer his interpretation of the current data and what it tells us about a possible future wave of new COVID infections in the US and around the world.

4) Thomas Meyer, Strategic Organizing Projects Director with Food & Water Watch, discusses the work his group and and a national coalition are doing to organize The March to End Fossil Fuels, Sept. 17th in New York City, as well as the larger campaign to combat the climate crisis, while informing listeners how they can get involved.

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