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Tag: 12.09.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the overthrow of the Syrian regime; Courageous South Koreans Block a Military Dictatorship; Trump 2.0 Corruption and Ethics Violations Ahead; Remembering 2012 Sandy Hook Mass Shooting Victims
Tag: 10.21.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris on: Trump's fascist threat in 2024 election; Israel provoking war w Iran may draw in US; Rev. Dr. William Barber on the intersection between morality and social justice; Naming 7 corporations undermining democracy
Tag: 10.07.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the US media's coverage of Israel's Gaza war; Corporate media 'sanewashing' Trump's cognitive decline; Hurricane Helene, climate change & holding Big Oil accountable; Mexico's first female president
Tag: 09.30.24: Counterpoint Host Scott Harris discusses Israel's attack on Hezbollah in Lebanon; Sabotaging the election in Georgia; Immigration a toxic issue in election 2024; The madness of US Sec of State Antony Blinken
Tag: 08.19.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Kamala Harris' economic policies; the ongoing slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza and ceasefire talks; Sinclair embeds rightwing propaganda on local TV channels; Large Progressive Gathering at Chicago DNC
Tag: 08.05.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Democratic Party isolation from working families; Israeli assassinations raise threat of wider Middle East war; Israel's mass murder of Gaza's Palestinian journalists; Venezuela's disputed election
Tag: 04.22.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses a European court victory to address climate change; Israel Iran conflict and ongoing carnage in Gaza; Haiti crisis and international intervention; CT 350.org local climate activism and upcoming events
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Arizona Court Activates 1864 Draconian Abortion Ban; Israel Iran Attack Counterattack Could Trigger Regional War; EPA has New Standards for PFAS chemicals in drinking water; Radical Connecticut People's History
Tag: 04.08.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's plan for authoritarian rule; Israel attack on Iran embassy could trigger regional war; GOP weaponizes disinformation on immigration; Congressional TikTok ban ignores larger issue of data privacy
Tag: 01.08.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Keeping Insurrectionist Trump off 2024 Ballot; Protesters Confront Argentina's Extremist President Javier Milei; South Africa Accuses Israel of Genocide in Gaza; Threat of Wider Middle East War Looms
Tag: 10.30.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Israel-Hamas War that's killed thousands of civilians on both sides; GOP's New Speaker is a Christian Right Extremist; FCC moving to revive Net Neutrality; Solutions to epidemic of US gun violence
Tag: 10.23.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the humanitarian emergency in Gaza; Danger of a wider Middle East War; DOJ must investigate GOP theft of election machine software; Targeting Harvard pro-Palestinian student activists
Tag: 06.26.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses One Year After Roe v. Wade Overturned; US & Iran Talk to Ease Tensions; Without Accountability Trump Contagion Continues to Infect the Nation; Billionaire Paul Singer's Lavish Gifts to Justice Alito
Tag: 09.26.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses major Iranian protests & nuclear talks; Russia's expected annexation of 15% of Ukraine; US corporate criminals escape accountability; Lawsuit filed against Ron DeSantis for exploiting asylum seekers
Tag: 07.18.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Pres. Biden's recent Middle East trip; Christian extremist policies imposed across the country; Big Oil profiteering boosts gas prices; AIPAC funds campaigns against progressive candidates
Tag: 12.20.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses corporate media's distorted inflation coverage; Status of talks on restoring Iran nuclear deal; Doubling efforts to pass voting rights bills; WPKN project to support Black & Latino communities
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the apparent ouster of Israeli PM Netanyahu; White Supremacy & Republicans vs. Democracy; The Future of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid; New Day Pacifica campaign working to save Pacifica Radio network
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Republican Party's turn to fascism; Concern Biden will continue endless U.S. wars; Rush Limbaugh's malevolent influence on US conservative movement; Opposition to CT Gov Lamont's new COVID vaccination plan
Tag: 02.08.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Ben & Jerry's campaign on ending police qualified immunity; Trump impeachment, GOP & democracy; Biden foreign policy & Re-prioritizing CT state budget and taxes
Tag: 11.30.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump lawbreaking and lies; President-elect Biden's Cabinet choices; Climate issues and Biden's campaign pledges; The assassination of Iran's top nuclear scientist and its consequences
Tag: 09.21.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses concern re a pre-election conflict with Iran; Ruth Bader Ginsburg's legacy; Trump's war on Social Security; Protecting the November election; Trump's criminal sabotage of US pandemic response
Tag: 08-31-20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses QAnon conspiracy theories and GOP support; Kenosha and Portland BLM Protests and deadly street violence; Will Trump seek foreign conflict to boost re-election?; Build The Wall arrests & Kris Kobach
Tag: 05.25.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the consequences of loosening stay-at-home restrictions; How the New York Times Enhances Trump's Propaganda; Code Pink's Memorial Day peace caravans; Campaign to protect CT prison inmates from coronavirus
Tag: 02.03.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Senate sham impeachment trial of Donald Trump; Trump regime Middle East peace plan dead on arrival; House repeals AUMF, funds for unauthorized Iran war & Initiative to address CT's housing crisis
Tag: 01.13.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses War profiteering in the wake of Trump attack on Iranian General; The Democracy Rebellion PBS documentary; Peace movement mobilizes to Stop US-Iran War; Sunrise Movement organizes to impact 2020 election
Tag: 01.06.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the danger of US war with Iran after Trump assassinates top Iranian General; Peace groups mobilize to stop US war with Iran; the origin & ideology of Fascism & WaPo's colonial bias on the Afghan Papers
Tag: 12.30.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses dramatic reductions in corporate taxes under Trump tax law; Socialism's new popularity in US; Protests in Iraq rock US-Iran backed government; Trump & Congress Establish "US Space Force"
Tag: 10.14.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Turkey's war on the Kurds in Northern Syria; "The Cult of Trump" author interview; Responding to Trump tweets armed militia groups threaten civil war; Trump exec order will erode Medicare benefits
Tag: 09.23.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the threat of a U.S. war with Iran; The case for the impeachment of Donald Trump; Book discussion on "Fault Lines in the U.S. Constitution;" New coalition of farmers & ranchers for a Green New Deal
Tag: 07.15.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses immigrant humanitarian border crisis; Trump regime efforts to rig US elections; Youth led Global Climate Strike & Left-Right coalition passes amendment blocking funds for Trump war with Iran
Tag: Guest hosts Melinda Tuhus & Richard Hill discuss a public health care option for CT; the growing evidence of natural gas fracking health impacts; Trump Iran crisis moves US closer to war & Trump detention of children shameless violation of human rights
Tag: 06.17.19 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the escalating U.S.-Iran crisis; the Poor People's Campaign & the 2020 election; Opposition to the T-Mobile-Sprint merger & Protests in Haiti demanding the resignation of Pres. Jovenel Moise
Tag: 06.03.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump administration lies re 2020 Census citizenship question; Why Mueller must testify before Congress; Trump's new Mexico tariffs, NAFTA 2.0; Reviving the U.S. peace movement
Tag: 05.20.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the arrest of 4 occupiers in Venezuela's US Embassy; The risk of US war with Iran; Why new abortion restrictions disproportionately impact women of color & Public option health insurance proposed for CT
Tag: 05.13.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the debate over impeachment of Pres. Trump; US pushing confrontation with Iran; Local activists make progress on election reform; CT progressives advocate fair & just state budget
Tag: 05.06.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses deadly US Venezuela sanctions; Charities donate to hate groups; Insurance industry opposition to Medicare4All; Measure to stop US involvement in Yemen War fails; Breslin, Hamill & journalism
Tag: 03.18.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses CT Supreme Court ruling on Sandy Hook lawsuit against gunmaker; Congress poised to invoke War Powers Act against Yemen War; US Delegation to Iran see impact of Trump Sanctions; CT Immigration Rights Bills
Tag: 03.11.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses charges of antisemitism against Rep. Ilhan Omar; US government surveillance of immigration rights activists; Report from Iraq after ISIS & Youth Climate Strike in CT & worldwide March 15th
Tag: 10-01-18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses what Brett Kavanaugh learned in high school about privilege; protesters who descended on Washington to oppose Kavanaugh nomination; Trump at the UN General Assembly & Ripple Effect Artists theater NYC
Tag: 06.18.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the war & humanitarian crisis in Yemen; What's next after Singapore US-North Korean Summit; Fallout from AT&T-Time Warner Merger; SCOTUS Upholds Ohio Voter Purge
Tag: 06.11.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's violation of Iran nuclear agreement & current talks w North Korea; The Commonbound conference; Mexico's July 1st election & Ceasefire in Afghanistan
Tag: 05.21.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's "War Cabinet" & the threat of new US conflicts; Campaign to preserve Net Neutrality; Venezuela's controversial presidential election; Unions oppose CT community college consolidation plan
Tag: 05.14.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Palestinians killed by Israel at Gaza border; Trump's Lawyer's Links w Corporate & Russian 'kickbacks'; Peace groups mobilizing to oppose future Trump Iran war; Union calls for boycott of Stamford Hilton
Tag: Resistance Round Table -- May 12, 2018
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's likely announcement withdrawing the US from the Iran nuclear deal; Trump, Pruitt Dismantle the EPA; Trump scandal circus exposes contempt for rule of law; CT Working Families Party 2018 Legislative Agenda
Tag: 04.16.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Pres.Trump's decision to launch airstrikes against Syria; the GOP plan to cut Social Security, Medicare; Youth activism in the age of Trump & MIT Student Day of Action in Boston
Tag: 03.26.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Cambridge Analytica & digital privacy; US role in Saudi Arabia's Yemen War; Dangerous War hawk John Bolton as Trump NSC Adviser; Speeches from Hartford, CT March for Our Lives rally
Tag: 03.05.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the humanitarian crisis in Syria's Eastern Ghouta region; Bloody US-Afghan War entering 17th Year; New US-Russia nuclear arms race & Much at stake for labor in Janus v. AFSCME SCOTUS case
Tag: 02.19.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the response to the Florida school shooting mass murder; Israel's recent attacks inside Syria; Organizing Hilton hotel workers in Stamford, CT; Populism and the importance of hope in social movements
Tag: 10.16.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's decertification of Iran Nuclear Deal, End of Obamacare subsidy's Impact on Americans; US Peace Movement Awakens; South Korean peace activist to speak in New Haven
Tag: 10.09.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Gun control groups' response to Las Vegas mass shooting; Status of Puerto Rico recovery; Trump's move to decertify Iran nuclear deal, CT budget impasse impact on state's disabled
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's threats against N. Korea; the campaign to defeat the latest GOP attempt to repeal Obamacare; Assessing the new Burns-Novick PBS Vietnam documentary; Calls for Univ of New Haven to close Saudi Security pgrm
Tag: 06.19.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses US Saudi Arabia role in Yemen's civil war; Charges brought against Michigan officials re: Flint water crisis; GOP attempts to repeal DoddFrank banking regulations; Green Party Pres candidate Jill Stein
Tag: 02.06.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Judge Gorsuch, Trump's SCOTUS nomination; Local, national response to Trump 'Muslim Ban'; Trump Ratchets Up Tension with Iran & Public Education at Risk in fight over Trump's DeVos Nomination
Tag: 01.09.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Trump agenda & the future of the Democratic party; Israeli policy toward Palestinians; Report from a delegation to Syria & Preview of planned protests at Trump inauguration in Washington, D.C.
Tag: 08.15.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Hillary Clinton's embrace of Neoconservative supporters; Trump attendance at extremist anti-gay Orlando event, Montreal's World Social Forum; CT Working Families Party celebrates five primary victories
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Pres. Obama's historic trip to Cuba; Aftermath of the Brussels terrorist attacks; Democracy Spring Wash. DC protest & Saudi intervention in Yemen's brutal civil war
Tag: 01.11.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Bernie Sander's advocacy of breaking up U.S. big banks; the Sunni-Shiite Muslim divide; White House protest to close down Guantanamo detention camp; Iraq War Vet's visit back to Iraq & Afghanistan
Tag: 11.30.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses what's at stake at the Paris climate summit; Consequences of Turkey's shooting down of a Russian fighter jet over Syria; Planned Parenthood clinic attack & Excerpt of Bernie Sanders talk on socialism
Tag: 11.23.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the links between Saudi Arabia and ISIS; Challenging the efficacy of a narrow military response to the Paris attacks; the US debate on mass government surveillance & Victories for clean election systems
Tag: 11.09.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement; U.S. troops in Syria; Fight for $15 national day of action; Climate fast; Un-Koch My Campus national campaign
Tag: 11.02.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Syria's civil war; Bernie Sanders' advocacy of democratic socialism; New Speaker of the House Paul Ryan's politics; Labor struggle at Danbury & New Milford CT hospitals
Tag: War Report October 2015
Tag: War Report for September 2015
Tag: 09.14.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Iran nuclear agreement; DOJ changes on prosecuting corporate crime; Prosecution of Guatemalan president & Connecticut initiatives on climate change
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses media myths about the Iran nuclear agreement; Greek economic crisis and Sept. elections; Pressure on Berrnie Sanders to issue foreign policy platform; Bread & Puppet Theater exhibit at UConn's Benton Museum of Art
Tag: War Report for August 2015