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: 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: 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: 12.11.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's fascist candidacy; Too little too late at the COP28 Climate Summit; Lawsuits to keep Trump off Oregon's 2024 ballot; Antisemitism, Islamophobia & protecting free speech on campus |
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: 10.17.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Extreme US wealth inequality & policy remedies; House January 6th Comm Hearing & waiting for accountability for Trump; GOP policies would weaken or end Social Security, Medicare; Behind Haiti's crisis |
Tag: 08.15.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses rising tensions between the US & China over Taiwan; Donald Trump and the GOP's embrace of political violence; Assessing the Inflation Reduction Act & Media fails to cover UN treaty to ban nuclear weapons |
Tag: 09.27.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses legislation to protect democracy from GOP attack; Global vaccination shortfall crisis; Activists Pressure Biden on Climate Action & Brutalization of Haitian refugees at US southern border |
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: 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: 11-25-19: 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: 09.30.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the mechanics and politics of impeachment now that the House has officially started an impeachment inquiry; Next steps after the Global Climate Strike & the campaign to make prison calls free in CT |
Tag: 09.09.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Code Pink's effort to end US complicity in Yemen War; Overturning North Carolina's GOP gerrymandered districts; Trapped in the US Terrorist Watch List & Resisting massive voter purges in Ohio & Georgia |
Tag: 08.12.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the ongoing drive to strengthen gun laws; UN Report on the link between climate change and food security; organizing civil disobedience in the Trump era; Rose City ANTIFA confronts white supremacists |
Tag: 10.15.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses a new UN report w dire warnings re global warming; the murder of Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi Arabia; Warning on a new "religious freedom" manifesto; CT Green Party Sec of State candidate Mike DeRosa |
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: 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: 02.12.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses increased military spending in the federal budget; deteriorating human rights conditions in Honduras; The new Poor Peoples' Campaign; California's progressive governor 1939-1943 |
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: 01.23-17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris features speeches & interviews from historic protests against Trump inauguration; Pres. Trump's financial conflicts of interest and violation of ethics & Campaign to end prison solitary confinement |
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: 08.29.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the "Alt Right" movement & the Trump campaign; the tragic ongoing Syrian civil war; investigation into election 2016 vote theft & the campaign to stop a proposed UI CT electric rate hike |
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 |
Tag: 09.28.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Pope Francis' messages during his recent visit to the U.S. on nuclear disarmament; climate change and economic inequality & a proposal to form a heroine users union in Connecticut |