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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: 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: 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: 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: 08.28.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses New report on widening gap between CEO and worker pay; Confronting GOP's embrace of political violence; Guatemala elects anti-corruption activist; CT rallies opposition to health insurance rate hike
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: 06.12.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses How to reduce rising US-China tensions; Debt ceiling deal cruelly cuts social program, rewards the rich; GOP threatens violence after Trump's federal indictment; Debt ceiling deal guts climate regulation
Tag: 01.30.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the movement of the "Doomsday Clock" to 90 sec. to midnight; Understanding the political crisis in Peru; New book details the threat of White Christian Nationalism; CT Darwin Day event celebrates science
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: 09.5.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Trump GOP threat to democracy; Pursuing a negotiated end to the Ukraine war; US labor movement sees historic rise in union organizing drives; CT Folk Festival Celebrates 29th Year Sept. 10th & 11th
Tag: 06.06.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Stopping disinformation ahead of 2022 midterm election, UnFoxMyCableBox campaign targets Fox News toxic rhetoric, Questioning why Fed attacks wages to stop inflation; Tracking pipelines & US oil wars
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: 04.25.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the forgotten Yemen War; GOP plot to steal the next election; UK moves to extradite Julian Assange to the US threatening press freedom, Justice for Mubarak campaign wins indictment of CT State Trooper
Tag: 04.04.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Ukraine conflict & danger or nuclear war; DOJ Inaction on Trump coup attempt condemned; Biden proposes minimum tax on billionaires; Union wins historic organizing drive at Amazon
Tag: 03.28.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses chances for peace talks in Ukraine, GOP race-baiting SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, Humanitarian crisis in Yemen's War, The fight for affordable housing in Connecticut
Tag: 03.21.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Ukraine war peace talks; COVID vaccine apartheid continues; Ukraine war & the threat of nuclear war; Campaign to pass CT law providing undocumented immigrants access to healthcare
Tag: 03.07.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Ukraine war and the urgent need for nuclear de-escalation; Vladimir Putin's goal in Ukraine and impact of Russian sanctions; Starbucks union drive catches fire; Growing US racial wealth gap
Tag: 02.28.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses negotiations to achieve a ceasefire in Ukraine; Averting the danger of a wider war in Europe; The costs of a new, more dangerous cold war with Russia & Ukraine's 15 nuclear reactors could be targets
Tag: 02.21.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses how war can be averted in Ukraine, The danger of extremists inside Canada's 'Freedom Convoy,' A new political and social profile of Vermont; Understanding the end of slavery celebrated on Juneteenth
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: 10.18.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses AT&T support for extremist One America "News" Network; Freedom to Vote Rally-Relay from WV to DC; Rising tensions between US & China; "The Great Strike of 2021" workers abandon the job market
Tag: 06.21.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Biden-Putin summit meeting; Fascism's Global Spread; the campaign to pass "For The People Act" in the U.S. Senate & New Connecticut zoning reform legislation
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: 12.02.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Goals of the UN Climate Summit in Madrid; the Crisis in U.S. political parties; Media attacks on progressive Democratic candidates; Assessing CT Governor Ned Lamont's climate and energy agenda
Tag: 12.03.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's intention to withdraw from the US-Russia INF nuclear treaty; Welfare reform's impact on women & the nation; Investigation into Pentagon accounting fraud & Labor's need to get back to its roots
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump administration roll back of fuel efficiency & pollution standards; Lies My Teach Told Me author on writing history; the brutal war in Yemen & Rise for Climate protests on Sept. 8th
Tag: 07.16.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Trump-Putin Summit; Mexican President-elect Lopez Obrador's program; Ireland divests from fossil fuel industry & U.S. Weapons in Space
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: 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: 11.13.17 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses growing US income inequality; US complicity in the ongoing brutal war in Yemen; Momentum builds to establish new city and state public banks & Drug Cos win w Trump nominee of Lilly CEO to be HHS Secretary
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: Digging in the Dirt w/Paul Bogard Author- The Ground Beneath Us
Tag: 03.06.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the links between Trump and Russia; Concern re: the demonization of Putin & Russia and where it may lead; Trump's 2nd Travel Ban executive order & The campaign to declare Bridgeport, CT a Sanctuary City
Tag: 10.03.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Gary Johnson's libertarian ideology and funding; masculinity in the presidential election; Post-impeachment politics in Brazil & Colombian voters reject proposed peace agreement
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: 02.15.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the battle to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia; the escalating arms race between the US & Russia; Analysis of Venezuela's economic & political crisis & report on the CT Green Party
Tag: 12.21.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses anti-Muslim hate crimes in U.S., Critique of big Green NGOs at Paris climate talks; New book explores economic inequality & Antiracist activism on university campuses
Tag: 12.07.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the gun control debate in the wake of 2 recent US mass shooting incidents; Progress at the Paris climate summit; FDA approval of GMO salmon & Protest at US Guantanamo prison in Cuba
Tag: 11.16.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Paris terrorist attacks, the current, deteriorating situation in Afghanistan and the recent "Our Generation Our Choice" protest actions in Washington, D.C.