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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: 10.07.24: 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: 09.02.24 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: 08.12.24 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: 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: 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: 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: 01.15.24: 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: 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: 06.19.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the GOP's Latest Proposal to Cut Social Security & Medicare; Bernie Sanders on "The State of Working Class America;" BRICS Nations Displace G7 Now in Economic Decline; How to Keep Juneteenth Radical
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: 02.27.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Russia's Suspension of Nuclear Arms Treaty; Protests Call for Diplomacy to End Ukraine War; Toxic Railroad Derailments Demands Govt Regulation; CT Bill provides Healthcare for Undocumented Immigrants
Tag: 02.13.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Chinese balloon & rising US-China tensions; US Media ignores report concluding US blew up Nord Stream pipeline; Group works to stop Biden 2024 re-election run; CT's Carbon Free & Healthy School Act
Tag: 12.26.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Jan 6 Comm Report & accountability; Ending the war in Ukraine; Myths about fusion power; Biden's new policy addressing homelessness
Tag: 10.31.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Diplomacy as a path to end Ukraine war; Progressives can help defeat fascistic GOP; GOP's anti-democratic agenda mimics repressive regimes abroad; Media's elex horse race coverage ignores critical issues
Tag: 10.03.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the dangerous new phase in the Ukraine War; Deadly hurricanes and climate change; Polls got it wrong in 1st round of Brazil election; Resisting culture war book bans & classroom censorship in CT schools
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: 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: 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: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses why Democrats in 2022 election should warn about dangerous extremists; Jan. 6th investigation progress; Lessons from history indigenous women controlled their own bodies; Finding a way to end the Ukraine War
Tag: 06.13.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the 6-18-22 Poor People's March; Jan. 6th House investigation hearings; Conservative Democrat's PAC works to defeat progressive candidates; US complicity in horrific Yemen War
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: 05.30.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the danger of US intervention if China attacks Taiwan; Texas school massacre provokes demands for new gun restrictions; US exaggerates threats to justify bloated Pentagon budget; History of 2nd Amendment
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: 04.11.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Big Oil profiteering amid war in Ukraine; Children really worried about the climate crisis; Covid racial disparities made white US residents less supportive of public health measures; Student debt crisis
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: The Men Behind the Guns (Cliff Furnald)
Tag: 03.14.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Ukraine War & dangers of enforcing a no fly zone; Amid Ukraine war proposing Defense Production Act for renewables; Millions of Medicaid recipients may lose benefits; Noam Chomsky on Ukraine crisis
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: 01.31.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Pres. Biden's pledge to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court; Dangerous increase in rhetoric in Ukraine crisis risks conflict; California debates single payer healthcare; CT climate march 2/8/22
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: 08.30.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the movement to protect US democracy; Afghanistan and war profiteering; Opposition to Biden nomination of Rahm Emanuel as US ambassador to Japan; Chevron's prosecution of Steven Donziger
Tag: 08.23.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Afghan-American community's demands to Joe Biden; Holding politicians accountable for COVID malpractice; Aiding Haiti in this moment of crisis; Working Families Party gears up for Bridgeport city election
Tag: 08.16.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Democrat's response to GOP gerrymandering; Donors financing republican legislators who voted to overturn the 2020 election; Consumerism, inequality & the climate crisis; Taliban takeover Afghanistan
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: 05.24.21: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 02.24.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Medicare For All and labor unions; Trump Afghan War peace talks with the Taliban; The crisis in U.S. journalism & The push for Community Choice Aggregation in CT
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: 11.11.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the apparent coup in Bolivia; the epidemic of suicide among returning U.S. war veterans; the victories in the Chicago teachers strike; Project Blitz: the Christian right network drafting state laws
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the formal launch of the House impeachment inquiry; Examining the US history of meddling in Ukraine; Understanding the root cause of Chile's massive protest movement & Assessing the fascist threat in the Trump era
Tag: 10.28.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses new public banking legislation in California; Latin America protests austerity & inequality; Deciphering new phase of Syrian war; New report documents FBI surveillance of progressive groups
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: 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: 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: 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: 05.27.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Espionage Act indictment of Julian Assange; Trump confrontation w Iran could lead to war; UN Report warns of impending extinction of 1 million species & CT Paid Family Medical Leave Act moves forward
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: 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: 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: 05.28.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump administration abuse of immigrant children; Prospects for US-North Korea summit meeting; the eruption of violence in Nicaragua & a preview of this year's Left Forum conference in NYC
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: 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: 03.12.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses prospects for the planned Trump-Kim Jong Un Summit; The hidden history of the 2nd Amendment & NRA; A teacher's view on schools, guns and safety & Connecticut moves to preserve Net Neutrality
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: 02.05.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Nunes Trump-Russia memo; Important court rulings on challenges to gerrymandering; Legislation to prevent Trump pre-emptive attack on N.Korea & State-by-state campaign to sideline Electoral College
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: 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: 08.28.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's Afghan war policy; Renegotiating NAFTA with Canada & Mexico; Texas floods, severe weather & climate change & New Haven Wells Fargo divestment campaign
Tag: 08.21.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump and nuclear war, Charlottesville racist violence; DOJ demand for data on visitors to anti-Trump website; America's new fascist threat & CT anti-racist organizing
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: 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: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's "Election Integrity" commission; Trump's firing of FBI director poses threat to rule of law; Marine vet says Trump Afghan troop escalation bound to fail; Sustainable agriculture key to food sovereignty
Tag: 05.01.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris assesses Trump's "tax reform" proposal; Trump abets corporate takeover of federal govt apparatus; Women peacemakers call for talks w North Korea; Action Together CT mobilizes opposition to Trump agenda
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: 04.10.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's attack on Syria; GOP Senate detonates nuclear option; March for Science appeals to reason; Koch brothers defeat TrumpCare & Win Keystone XL Pipeline Approval
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.
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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: 07.11.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses police-community relations in the wake of a week of violence; Afghanistan: America's longest war; the UK Chilcot report on Britain's role in Iraq War; the deal to close Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant
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: 06-27-16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the economics of Britain's vote to leave the European Union; Breakthrough: Colombian civil war peace agreement; the People's Summit: what's next for Sanders supporters & listener calls on election 2016
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses weapons in space; President Obama's historic visit to Hiroshima, Japan and the effort to abolish nuclear weapons; Chris Hedges on the 2016 election & the Green Party of CT 2016 campaign plans
Tag: 05.16.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Breaking Through Power conference w Ralph Nader; Impeachment of Brazilian Pres. Dilma Rousseff, the post-election future of the Bernie Sanders campaign & this year's annual Left Forum conference in NYC
Tag: 04.11.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Panama Papers global tax shelter leaked documents; Democracy Awakening protests in Washington, D.C.; Kurdish people's struggle for independence; Opposition to CT energy policy
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: 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: 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: 10.25.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses secret documents re: the US drone warfare program; Exxon's deception on climate change; Alabama voter suppression exposed & deficiencies in Haiti's 10-25-15 national election
Tag: 10.05.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses America's broken economic and political systems; Russia's intervention in Syria's civil war; the GOP campaign to defund Planned Parenthood & talks by Eric Foner & Ralph Nader at Tort Law Museum opening
Tag: War Report for August 2015
Tag: China's Way of War