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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: 10.14.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses GOP Plan to Undermine Presidential Election; Project 2025's Sabotage of Federal Disaster Response; Sanders Pushes Bill to Stop US Weapons Sales to Israel; the Nuts & Bolts of Progressive Electoral Success
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: 09.23.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the escalating war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon; Trump's abortion ban is literally killing women; US Poverty rose when federal safety net programs expired; Billy Bragg on politics and hope
Tag: 09.09.24: Counterpoint Host Scott Harris discusses Mark Green's new book The Inflection Election; University repression of student Gaza war protests; Our Climate Future: Apocalypse or Utopia Portland Maine city council divests from Israel
Tag: 09.02.24 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the ongoing Gaza war & massive Israel protests; Coalition demands media cover threat to democracy; Author asks do we live to work, or work or live?; CT cafe supports inclusion, tolerance & racial justice
Tag: 08.26.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses US doctor's eyewitness account of Gaza war horrors, Racism as a primary motive for supporting Trump; Former Israeli soldier condemns his nation's Gaza war; GOP election deniers change Georgia state rules
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: 07.22.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses JD Vance's extremist position on abortion, ICJ rules Israeli occupation of Palestine illegal, As Biden drops out of campaign, what's next, Advocating CT climate crisis legislation
Tag: 07.15.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris on GOP attempts to use failed assassination to shut down criticism of Trump; Left victory in French elections offers lessons to US; Poll finds Americans reject Project 2025; Voters of Tomorrow target youth vote
Tag: 07.08.24 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses dangerous SCOTUS ruling on presidential immunity; Concerned Democrats hesitate to replace Joe Biden; Jewish Biden Adm staff resigns in protest over US Gaza policy; Trump contagion spreads in US electorate
Tag: 07.01.24 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Julian Assange's release from prison & impact of plea deal; Calls for Joe Biden to step aside & find a new candidate; Threat of wider war between Israel & Hezbollah; Trump memos expose deep corruption
Tag: 06.24.24 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses France's New Popular Front unites to fight Fascism; Diplomacy could help end Ukraine War; Climate Protests Target Banks financing fossil fuels; Active duty US soldiers appeal for redress over Gaza War
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's authoritarian blueprint Project 2025; SCOTUS scandals and corruption demand reform; Israel's new air war in West Bank kills rising number of Palestinian children; SCOTUS strikes down ban on 'bump stocks'
Tag: 06.10.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Mexico's historic election of first female president; Intl Criminal Court targets Israeli & Hamas leaders; Effort to revive nuclear power; GOP Georgia voter suppression scheme moves to battleground states
Tag: 05.20.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses student's moral outrage at US complicity in Israel's Gaza war; Christian right take over of Texas school boards; Walk For Gaza CT; Veterans For Peace 700 Mile Peace Walk 2024
Tag: 05.13.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris on Israelis Expect ICC Netanyahu Arrest Warrant; Students Risk Careers by Protesting Israel's Barbaric Gaza War; Trump's Contempt for Women Exposed in Hush Trial; CT Student Climate campaign targets insurance Cos.
Tag: 05.06.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the criminalization of college Gaza war protests; UAW wins union election at Volkswagen; Cable news presents skewed coverage of Israel's Gaza war; Activists push for New Haven Gaza ceasefire resolution
Tag: 04.29.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the weaponization of antisemitism to attack student Gaza protesters; Israel sells occupied Palestinian land in US and Canada; Supreme Court hears case that could criminalize homelessness and poverty
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: 04.01.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the GOP attack on reproductive rights, Israel propaganda targets US journalists; CT Dem Primary Uncommitted campaign; Earth Day hearing on CitiGroup environmental racism
Tag: 03.25.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Passage of UN Gaza ceasefire resolution; Assessing Biden's domestic policy agenda; Rightwing extremist network financed Moms For Liberty; CT legislation proposes expanding paid sick leave law
Tag: 03.18.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Biden's contradictory, deadly Gaza policies; Haiti crisis draws international intervention again; Free speech groups oppose Congressional TikTok ban; Trump 2024 voter purge operation targets dem voters
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Corporate media coverage of Election 2024; Humanitarian crisis & starvation in Gaza; Addressing media bias in reporting on Gaza & Palestine; CT bill supports local news outlets w state ad revenue
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses new information in the assassination Malcolm X; A vision for a Palestinian-Israel confederated state; Julian Assange battles to stop UK extradition to US; Biden considers embracing Trump immigration policies
Tag: 02.19.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses US role in Ukraine & Gaza wars; Vets for Peace letter to Biden Adm demanding end to US weapons sent to Israel; Engage or Not in 2024 presidential election? New Haven Community Conversations on Gaza War
Tag: 02.12.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Israel's ongoing carnage in Gaza war; SCOTUS hearing on Colorado's removal of Trump from state ballot; Questions on CT pension fund investment in Israel; New book on historic fight for reproductive rights
Tag: 02.05.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Trump-GOP Threat to Democracy; Escalating Middle East Conflict linked to Israel's Brutal Gaza War; CT For All Launches 2024 Equity Agenda; Far Right Forces Generating Emergency at Southern Border
Tag: 01.29.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Intl Court of Justice order against Israel in Gaza War; Accountability for Boeing's safety issues; Protests erupt against extremist Argentine president Javier Milei; Media normalizes Trump's Fascism
Tag: 01.22.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Israel's Bloody ongoing war in Gaza; White Christian Nationalists Embrace of Trump; Supreme Court Poised to Gut Federal Regulations; 3 Migrants Drowned as Texas Tries to Enforce its own Border Rules
Tag: 01.15.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Why CNN Reports are Subject to Israeli Censorship; Trump's Fascist Threat to Democracy Downplayed by US Media; Courts Uphold Extremist Abortion Laws Endangering Lives; MLK's Radical Message Whitewashed
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: 12.18.23 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Biden's Power to Stop Israeli Carnage in Gaza; Effective Challenge to America's Undemocratic Electoral College; Physician Relates the Horror her Gamily Faces in Gaza; New book Examines Class, Race & Gender
Tag: 12.04.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Dark Legacy of Henry Kissinger; GOP's Latest Threat to Social Security & Medicare; Biden Pays Price for Embrace of Israel's Deadly Gaza Attack; Prospects for Progress on Climate Crisis at COP 28
Tag: 11.27.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the 8th Circuit Court ruling eroding the Voting Rights Act; Activists push for Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza; Biden's dismal polls alarm those working to defeat Trump in 24'; CCAG's 52nd Anniversary
Tag: 11.20.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Israel's war in Gaza and mass killing of Palestinians with Ralph Nader; The Biden-Xi Jinping meeting & US China relations; Israel's spy network on US college campuses & the new CT chapter of Third Act
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses American Jews' relationship with Israel; Ohio voters pass abortion access referendum; Artificial Intelligence: dangers and opportunities; Bridgeport CT mayoral election marred by ballot fraud
Tag: 11.06.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses root causes of the Israel Hamas war, Jewish Voice for Peace demand for a ceasefire in Gaza; UAW strike ends with historic agreement with Big 3 automakers; Antisemitic groups exploit Middle East conflict
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: 10.16.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses violence in Israel-Gaza killing 1000s of civilians; Legislators advocate for an Israeli ceasefire to save lives; What's at stake in the UAW strike; New film tells story of US Soviet atomic spy Ted Hall
Tag: 10-09-23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Hamas brutal attack on Israel; Trump-GOP incitement of violence; Role of sanctions in US southern border crisis; Azerbaijani ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh
Tag: 09.25.23: Mike Merli (fill-in for Counterpoint with Scott Harris) discusses Global Fossil Fuel Addiction Feeding the Ukraine War; Campaign to End Wrongful Convictions in CT; Protests Greet Netanyahu as he visits the U.S.
Tag: 07.24.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Israel protests & equality for Palestinians; Parents Fight Moms For Liberty; Organizing to Resist Authoritarianism; Youth Activists Protest Regressive SCOTUS Rulings
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: 05.01.23: Mike Merli filling-in for Scott Harris discusses: The US Palestine Museum's mission; Making Religious Spaces Safer for Queer Folks; 2023 Gandhi Peace Award Recipient Kali Akuno; Examining the State of Commutations in Connecticut
Tag: 04-24-23 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Dominion Fox Lawsuit Settlement Won't Protect Democracy; SCOTUS Justice Thomas gathering ethics scandal; Report reveals Israel colluded w 16' Trump campaign; PFAS chemicals found in CT water systems
Tag: 04.03.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump indictment & threat of domestic terrorism; Israel faces two major crises; In These Times' director on the future of progressive media; Opponents Explain their opposition to CT aid in dying bill
Tag: 03.06.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Fox News Propaganda & Free Speech; Saving Social Security w/out Cutting Benefits; Azerbaijan's blockade Triggers Humanitarian Crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh; Rise in Israel-Palestine Violence, Major Protests
Tag: 01.09.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the 2nd anniv of Jan. 6th insurrection & ongoing threats to democracy; Book banning across America; Climate crisis reparations for future generations; Responding toIsrael's new far right government
Tag: 12.05.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Israel's dangerous new ultranationalist government; the wider impact of Elon Musk's devolution of Twitter; Venezuela government & opposition start new new talks; Congress blocks Railroad workers strike
Tag: 11.07.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the extremist that won Israel's Nov. 1st election; Polls cannot capture the electorate that votes in US midterms; Billionaires break records w money in midterm elex; Housing on the ballot in Long Island
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: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses right wing targeting pro-choice protesters for arrest; "100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting;" The killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh; Son of dictator wins Philippine election
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: 05.31.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the GOP's ongoing insurrection and attack on Democracy; Challenging the US-Israel special relationship; ExxonMobil on losing end of stockholder rebellion & Challenging Muslim discrimination in CT prisons
Tag: 05.24.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses prospects for lasting peace in Israel-Palestine; Countering the GOP threat to US democracy; Opposition to CDC's relaxation of COVID Precautions; Push to expand voting rights in Connecticut
Tag: 05.17.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the conflict and loss of life in Israel-Palestine; Massive protests & police violence in Colombia; Right wing 'cancel culture'; WPKN community radio's move to new studios
Tag: 04.12.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses GOP voter suppression bills across the US; What's going on in Afghanistan, America's longest war; CT based-Sturm Ruger gun sales to Israel & Gun violence prevention activist's work with faith communities
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: 09.14.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the coalition formed to protect the election results; Refugees created by US Post-9/11 wars; Warnings to progressives of a 2nd Trump election victory; Normalization of Israel, UAE, Bahrain relations
Tag: 07.06.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Big Pharma price gouging in the age of COVID19; Understanding the context of the Russia Afghan bounty story; Israel's plan to Annex Palestinian West Bank; Desegregate Connecticut: a new campaign
Tag: 03.23.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Coronavirus & insurance industry profits; Senators accused of insider trading; COVID-19 devastates the world economy; Biden vs. Biden on how to attack coronavirus & Occupied Palestine & the pandemic
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: 11-25-19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the events leading to the coup in Bolivia; Calls for the firing of White Nationalist Trump adviser Stephen Miller; Trump changes US view of illegal Israeli settlements & the restoration of WBAI Radio
Tag: 09.16.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Afghan peace talks, Saudi oil field attack; Israel's election; Trump extremist fed judge nominee Steven Menashi & Green Party presidential candidate Howie Hawkins
Tag: 08.19.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Israel's travel ban against Reps. Omar & Tlaib; Progressive presidential candidates' electability; Truck rams through peaceful protest at ICE detention center & New Haven moving to Sanctuary City status
Tag: 04.15.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses What Israeli election results mean for Palestinians; Advocacy for Dialogue in Strife-Torn Venezuela; Why Indictment of Assange Poses threat to Press Freedom & 31,000 Workers Strike Stop & Shop
Tag: 03.25.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the conclusion of the Mueller probe into Trump-Russia Collusion; Trump's recognition of Israel's control of disputed Golan Heights; Assessing Bernie Sanders' 2016 & 2020 presidential candidacy
Tag: 07.23.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's attempt to dismantle the CFPB; the launch of a new Medicare4All Caucus in the House; Anti-Fascist protest planned in Wash DC 8-12-18 & Gandhi Peace Awards, Anti-blockade Flotilla sails to Gaza
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: 04.09.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Israeli snipers killing of 30 Palestinian protesters; Universal Basic Income; Trump trade policies & NAFTA negotiations; Sinclair TV propaganda and merger proposal
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: 12.11.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses fallout from Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital; Trump proposal to establish a private spy agency; Post-Election crisis in Honduras; Yale University fossil fuel divestment campaign
Tag: Interview with Shelly Altman of Jewish Voice for Peace
Tag: 07.31.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump proposal to send a mercenary army to Afghanistan; Trump tax cuts would benefit the wealthiest; Congressional bill criminalizes support for Israel boycott; CT climate change assembly
Tag: 04.24.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump Justice Dept. plans to indict WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange; Progressive Democrats mobilize to win special elections; Results of the French election & a speech by BDS founder Omar Barghouti
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's threats against North Korea; the failure of US humanitarian military interventions; Public Banking advocated in New Jersey election & Israel blocks Palestinian BDS organizer from receiving US peace award
Tag: 04.03.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's repeal of Obama climate change regulations and Internet privacy rules; US military escalation in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan & Yemen and New If Not Now movement protests US-Israel policy on Palestine
Tag: 02.20.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses what President Trump has in common with fascists in US history; Contradictions and confusion on Trump administration's Middle East policy; Movement to Impeach Trump & CT Green Party agenda for 2017
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: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the US decision not to veto a UN resolution against Israel's illegal settlements; Viking Economics egalitarian societies in Scandinavian nations; civil liberties under Trump; US Dept of Arts and Culture activism
Tag: 05.30.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the global movements confronting the causes of economic inequality; U.S. drone wars; The extremist appointed Israeli Defense minister & CT budget cuts & plan to privatize group homes for the disabled
Tag: 10.19.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Trans Pacific Partnership free trade treaty; Corporate tax avoidance; Israeli/Palestinian Combatants for Peace; Emloyment practices lawsuit against the Disney corporation
Tag: 09.07.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses organizing around the fight for a $15 minimum wage; the history & future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Resignation of Guatemala's president & the campaign to close the Indian Point nuclear plant