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Tag: 08.12.24 Counterpoint host Scott Harris: Tim Walz's Progressive MN Legislative Record; Kamala can Neutralize SCOTUS Presidential Immunity Ruling; To End Ukraine War US & Russia Must Talk; Project 2025's Blueprint for Environment & Climate Catastrophe
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: 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: 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: 01.22.24: 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: 07.03.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Russia Rebellion & Opening for Peace Talks; SCOTUS Ignores Precedent to Overturn Affirmative Action; US Repression IWW Union Offers Lessons for Today's Labor Activists; SCOTUS Blocks Student Debt Relief
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: 06.05.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Winners & losers in debt ceiling deal; Proposal for drone moratorium in Ukraine War; SCOTUS weakens EPA Clean Water Act enforcement; GOP book bans come to Connecticut
Tag: 05.08.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the deepening SCOTUS ethics scandals; Why Republicans are weakening child labor laws; MoveOn targets Fox News advertisers; Rightwing Billionaires finance 2024 third party presidential bid
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: 03.13.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses GOP repressive laws targeting LGBTQ community; Rightwing campaign to outlaw abortion in 50 states; Biden's proposed federal budget; CT finally moves to adopt early voting
Tag: 01.02.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses What Motivates Far Right Voters; Title 42 & Crisis on the US Southern Border; Protests Follow Ouster and Arrest of Peru's President; Press Freedom in Jeopardy as US Pursues Julian Assange Extradition
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 the extremist rulings of the Supreme Court, New book celebrates tween's curiosity & imagination; Universal healthcare could have prevented 300,000+ COVID deaths in US; Overturning Roe: women now 2nd class citizens
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: Counterpoint host Scott Harris presents Intl news coverage of leaked draft SCOTUS ruling overturning Roe v. Wade ruling; Views on danger of escalation between the US & Russian in Ukraine war; Coronavirus Criminals & Colombia's May 29th Election
Tag: 02.14.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the US hypocrisy re: International law; Critical Race Theory & the GOP culture war; Nord Stream 2 and the Ukraine crisis & Joe Rogan's Vaccine Disinformation Blowback
Tag: 12.13.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses NATO's role in Russia-Ukraine tensions; After outlawing abortion what's the Christian right's next target?; Vaccine apartheid creates dangerous COVID variants; UK court OKs Julian Assange US extradition
Tag: 11.29.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Looming deadline for passage of Voting Rights legislation; Study advises progressive candidates how to connect with voters; America's wealthiest own US tax code; Comedy circuit rife with sexual misconduct
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses how Big $ in politics is killing Biden's human infrastructure bill; Pandora Papers investigation into billionaire tax cheats; the Facebook Users Union's #FireZuck campaign & Fixing CT's affordable housing crisis
Tag: 07.26.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses politically driven COVID disinformation; Colombian soldiers arrest in Haitian president's assassination; SCOTUS ruling kills Voting Rights Act & Texas activists mobilize to stop voter suppression
Tag: 10.26.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses a lawsuit against Trump regime voter intimidation; Trump DOJ interference in election vote counts; Campaign to prevent military election intervention & Why mass mobilization can protect the election
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: 07.01.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses two recent Supreme Court Rulings on 2020 Census and gerrymandering; U.S. Relations with Russia; Maine candidate challenging Senator Susan Collins & RootsAction's Bad Blues: challenging corporate Democrats
Tag: 04.29.19: Counterpoint's Scott Harris discusses the Trump Adm effort to include citizenship question in 2020 Census; Protection Collective "Occupies" Venezuelan Embassy; Brazil's Bolsonaro threatens Amazon rainforest; Joe Biden's legislative history
Tag: 01.28.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the end game of Trump's post-shutdown negotiations; US intervention in Venezuela's political & economic crisis; Ending partisan gerrymandering; CT push to legalize recreational marijuana use & sales
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: 09.24.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses voter suppression and the Voting Rights Act; Kavanaugh SCOTUS nomination & sex abuse charges, Lawsuits re: voter purges nationwide; Socialist Action candidate ballot petition chaos
Tag: 09.10.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the new book, "How to Read a Protest;" Trump's SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh; US complicity in the war in Yemen; Singer songwriter David Rovic's new history podcast project
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's NAFTA negotiations with Mexico & Canada; The state of the US labor movement 2018; SCOTUS nominee Kavanaugh disregards International law; U.S. Wealth Inequality; Rise for Climate Jobs & Justice actions in CT
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: 04.23.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump deregulation of U.S. arms sales; Rise of hate crimes in US target South Asians, Muslims & Arabs; Oligarchs call the shots in US politics; Cryptocurrency, Blockchain deciphered
Tag: Interview with Michael Zweig -- March 6, 2018
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: 09.18.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's Election Integrity Commission; Supreme Court case on partisan gerrymandering; John Nichol's new book, "Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse" & Connecticut's budget impasse
Tag: 07.03.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses rising tensions between the US and N. Korea; Trump nominates a lawyer who justified torture; the struggle to preserve a free and open Internet & SCOTUS ruling upends CT refugee settlement agency
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: 10.24.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses issues in the 2016 election campaign including the future of Social Security; What's at stake for the country with future appointments made to SCOTUS; California's Proposition 61 & Stealing US elections
Tag: 07.04.16 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the need for a new U.S. peace movement after election 2016; Did recent SCOTUS ruling legalize corruption? New federal legislation addresses Puerto Rico's debt crisis & Hazards of nuclear power in space
Tag: 06.13.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Bernie Sanders campaign offshoot, Brand New Congress; #WeThePeople campaign finance reform bills; New labor coalition on climate change & Ethics concern re: Cigna-Anthem insurance co. merger
Tag: 05.02.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses U.S. voter suppression issues; the ongoing crisis in Ukraine; the possible future transition of the Bernie Sanders' campaign to a movement & New Exxon documents reveal early knowledge of climate change
Tag: 02.29.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the battle of Obama's SCOTUS nomination; the shaky ceasse-fire in the Syrian civil war; Trump's racism & hate groups & Newtown group's gun control advocacy
Tag: 01.04.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses an important Supreme Court case, Jan. 2016, that could weaken labor unions; police violence, accountability and the Black Lives Matter movement; Haiti's cancelled presidential election & listener calls