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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: 12.04.23: 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: 09.18.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses UAW union demands in US automaker strike; GOP attacks Wisconsin's democratic institutions; "Rural New Deal" plan proposes rebuilding rural economies; Activists work on democratic world federation
Tag: 09.11.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Sept 11th terrorist attack & US War on Terror; Reporter goes undercover in US rightwing extremist movements; RICO Indictment of 61 StopCopCity Activists; March to End Fossil Fuels 9-17 NYC
Tag: 09.04.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Dangers of Trump-GOP cult; Oxfam's new Best States to Work report; Health hazards of Japan's dump of radioactive water in Pacific; Excerpt of Bernie Sanders "The State of America's Working" speech
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: 08.21.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses campaign to exclude Trump from 2024 ballot; Georgia RICO indictment Tells the story of election subversion; Code Pink responds to NY Times McCarthyite hit piece; House GOP's "ACE" voter suppression bill
Tag: 08-07-23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the latest indictment of Donald Trump; Pen America's lawsuit against a Florida County's book banning; The GOP weaponized COVID & vaccines killing their own; American Mural Project a Tribute to US workers
Tag: 07.31.23 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses concern that Joe Biden is a risky candidate in 2024; Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in the crosshairs of war; Fossil fuel corps must pay for climate crisis; New Haven's 'Interfaith Service Day'
Tag: 07.17,23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Ohio GOP Referendum Undermines Democracy; Teamsters Prepare for Historic Strike at UPS; Police Repression of Climate Activists on the Rise; Campaign Working to Keep Trump off of 2024 Ballot
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: 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: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Texas judge's ruling banning an abortion drug; Backlash against the GOP's extremist agenda; CT workers equity agenda lobby day in Hartford; Climate Defiance plan to blockade White House Correspondents Dinner
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: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump GOP threat to extinguish democracy; Ongoing campaign works to ratify Equal Rights Amendment; Late journalist Robert Parry broke story of Reagan's Oct. Surprise in 1991; Debate over CT prison commutations
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: 02.20.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses FL Gov Desantis censoring black history, book banning; Fox News Exposed for lying to their audience; Drag Queen events defended from rightwing extremists; Opposition to CT's proposed 'Aid in Dying' bill
Tag: 02.06.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses GOP removal of Rep. Ilhan Omar fr Foreign Affairs Comm; Police violence & paths to reform; New film "The Road to Justice" examines civil rights history; Union protests CT Community College tuition hike
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: 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: 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: 12.19.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre & ongoing campaign to end gun violence; UK's public sector labor strikes; GOP threat to cut Social Security, Medicare & Critique of Biden's US-Africa Leaders Summit
Tag: 11.28.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses veteran social change activist George Lakey's memoir, "Dancing with History;" The devolution of the Republican Party; The unfinished business of COP27 climate summit; Long Island Sound Report Card
Tag: 11.21.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the midterm election & ongoing GOP threat to democracy; Is DOJ appointment of a special prosecutor another delay to Trump accountability; Assessing the COP-27 climate summit; Poll workers under threat
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: 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: 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: 09.19.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the threat to democracy in the Supreme Court Moore v. Harper case; Wall St. is funding the GOP's culture war; 17 states criminalize fossil fuel protests; Climate activists protest Manchin-Senate deal
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: 08.22.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses a new investigation into Georgia GOP voter suppression; Laws criminalizing homelessness enacted across the US; Starbucks lawless anti-union campaign; Political disinformation targets Latino voters
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 Christian nationalism & GOP embrace of January 6th insurrection violence; Reforming US electoral college system; Election of Colombia's 1st leftist president; Climate activists protest at Travelers golf tourney
Tag: 05.02.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Effective Ways to Fight GOP's Culture War; Elon Musk's Purchase of Twitter & Free Speech; Eroding public health measures to combat a deadly pandemic; Jackpot: How the Super-Rich Harms Us All
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: 04.18.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Double standards in international law and human rights exposed by Russia's war in Ukraine; Combating GOP classroom censorship; Debt Collective demands Biden cancel student debt; Amazon workers union win
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: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Senate failure to pass voting rights bills; Challenging insurrectionist's right to run for public office; Koch Network's war on COVID public health measures; CT campaigns to ban prison solitary confinement
Tag: 11.22.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the GOP's embrace of violence endangering democracy; Nov. 15th Cuba protests fizzle; Millions of Afghan civilians face famine; Campaign to preserve Remington Woods Bridgeport CT green space
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: 09.13.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the demand for classified 9/11 files re Saudi Arabia involvement; BTL 9/11/2001 Re-Broadcast; Republican Party threat to democracy; Colombia's protest movement against inequality, poverty and corruption
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: 08.16.21: 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: 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: 07.05.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Exxon lobbyist reveals how company blocks climate legislation; the privatization of Medicare; Supreme Court ruling further erodes Voting Rights Act; Arrest of opposition leaders in Nicaragua
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: 05.10.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Joe Biden's proposals to tax the rich; Stopping tax avoidance by the wealthiest; CIA plot to kill Raul Castro revealed & Desegregate CT pushes statewide zoning reform bill
Tag: 05.03.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Why Biden may finally end 'Reagan’s Rancid Legacy;' Assessing Biden's climate policies; At 100 days Biden's corporate capture report card; White supremacist organizations & white workers
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: 04.05.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Hedge Funds and the Green New Deal; Boot Camps for Destroying Democracy; Petition Drive to Recall Georgia Governor Kemp; "Unrig Bridgeport" campaign to end corruption, restore democracy
Tag: 03.29.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses immigration and the 'Border Industrial Complex;' Biden adm hardline policies toward Russia and China; GOP voter suppression in Georgia & across the US & Grassroots vaccination campaign in Fairhaven, CT
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the "For the People Act" & democracy; Amazon workers union drive in Alabama; White supremacist ongoing threat to democracy & Stop Solitary CT campaign to end solitary confinement in CT
Tag: 02.22.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses GOP push for voter suppression laws; Pressuring Biden to cancel student debt; Haiti protests demand resignation of Jovenel Moise; CT Pushes for Housing as a Right
Tag: 02.08.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Ben & Jerry's campaign on ending police qualified immunity; Trump impeachment, GOP & democracy; Biden foreign policy & Re-prioritizing CT state budget and taxes
Tag: 02.01.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses President Biden's climate change policies; Trump's impeachment trial that begins on Feb. 9th; Tracking the coronavirus pandemic and the danger of variant strains; US poverty causes & policy solutions
Tag: 01.25.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Joe Biden's proposals on immigration reform; Holding corporations accountable for supporting GOP insurrection; What's next for pro-Trump militia groups; Schools, Race and Housing in Connecticut
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Pro-Trump domestic terrorist assault on the US Capitol; Republican Party complicity with the insurrection; Trump & GOP legislators must be held accountable; Mubarak Soulemane's family's struggle for justice
Tag: 01.04.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's continuing attempt to overturn the 2020 election; UK's 11th hour Brexit Deal; NRC proposes to extend nuclear power plant licenses to 100 years & the Kevin Zeese Emerging Activist Fund
Tag: 12.14.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the urgent need for equitable distribution of coronavirus vaccines; Trump-GOP Sedition Continues Attempted Election Coup; Ranked Choice Voting Gains in Election 2020; Protest Demands Yale Pay Fair Taxes
Tag: 11.11.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses why 70 million voted for Trump; How to abolish the undemocratic Electoral College; Daniel Ellsberg explains why accountability for Trump is critical & How Georgia's voters were purged and restored
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: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Georgia's primary election disaster; Progress Since 1992's L.A. Rebellion; Rev. Dr. William Barber's Sermon on Reconstruction; In current protests media focus on race but not class
Tag: 06.08.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses steps that must be taken for genuine policing reform; Trump's dangerous military response to mass US protests; Trump Coronavirus Death Clock & Connecticut Black Lives Matter activists on local cases
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Pres Trump's mismanagement of the pandemic; Dems advised to harness justified anger; Dangers & opportunities for unions in coronavirus crisis; Campaign to release CT inmates from prisons where COVID19 is spreading
Tag: 02.17.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the threat of tyranny posed by Pres. Trump & AG Bill Barr; Trump Adm proposes deep cuts to Social Security & Medicare; Bernie Sanders' relation with the term socialism & CT Marijuana legalization effort
Tag: 12.23.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the consequences of a sham impeachment trial in the Senate; Court rules ObamaCare unconstitutional; Trump's plan to cut Social Security disability benefits; Campaign to bar ICE agents from CT court house
Tag: 12-16-19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses nationwide pro-impeachment protests; Conservative defeat of the Labor Party in the UK election; Trump's executive order on antiSemitism a threat to free speech; 'What's Wrong with the Republicans?'
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: 10.14.19: 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: 09.09.19: 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: 07.22.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Never Again Action protests to close Trump's inhumane refugee camps; Trump's racist comments attacking "The Squad"; Trump admin deregulation of polluting industries & Medicare4All CT forum 8-17-19
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: 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: 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: 06.03.19: 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: 02.04.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump pulling out of the INF nuclear treaty with Russia; Public opinion shifts on climate change; Movement Revives Push for Equal Rights Amendment; Trump goes easy on corporate crime
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: 10.29.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the rise of hate crimes in the age of Trump; Trump plan to pull out of the INF nuclear weapons treaty with Russia; Brazil's new extreme right president & Working Families Party midterm election GOTV
Tag: 10.22.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses voter suppression across the U.S.; the Saudi murder of Jamal Khashoggi and state assassinations; GOP vows to cut Social Security, Medicare; Action Together CT electoral plan & CT Univ. link to Saudi $$$
Tag: 10.08.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the defeat of groups opposed to Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination; Assessing Trump's renegotiated NAFTA treaty; Fight For 15 stages strikes, protests in 7 states; UCONN's Alternative Press Collection
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: 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: Counterpoint host Scott Harris presents an excerpt of Timothy Snyder talk on tyranny; & discusses the ascent of the Democratic Socialists of America; Connecticut primary election results and President Trump's now cancelled military parade
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: 07-02-18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Supreme Court's ruling in Trump Muslim ban case; The coming Senate debate/vote to replace Justice Kennedy; Supreme Court "Janus" ruling damaging public sector unions & Averting a new US-Russia Cold War
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: 06.04.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Fed proposal to weaken Volcker Rule; "Little Pink House" Epic Eminent Domain Battle; Christian Right Pushes Agenda in States; Left Forum 2018 Plenary Excerpts
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: 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: 12.18.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the winners & losers in the GOP tax bill; Fallout from FCC repeal of Net Neutrality; Trump mixed messages on talks with North Korea; The ongoing post-election crisis in Honduras
Tag: 12.04.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the GOP tax reform bills' impact; Privatizing & segregating US public education; Organizing to stop the repeal of Net Neutrality & Confronting white nationalists on the University of CT Storrs campus
Tag: 11.20.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the GOP tax bill & Medicare cuts; Healthcare as important issue in US electoral politics; FCC moves to allow Sinclair TV merger; Threat to dissent in trial of of 200 arrested at DC inauguration protests
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: 11.06.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses GOP effort to promote religion in politics; EPA banning of scientists from advisory boards; Democratic party post-election autopsy; Confronting hate & fear in Trump's America
Tag: 10.30.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the First Indictments in Mueller's Trump-Russia Probe; Winners and Losers in GOP Tax Reform Plan; Status Check on the National Popular Vote Campaign; Movement Targets Bank Investments in Fossil Fuels
Tag: 10.23.17 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Climate change link w increase in US wildfires; Corporate media ignores key solution in US healthcare debate; Response to fake news marginalizes left media; Newtown group responds to Las Vegas shooting
Tag: 10.09.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Gun control groups' response to Las Vegas mass shooting; Status of Puerto Rico recovery; Trump's move to decertify Iran nuclear deal, CT budget impasse impact on state's disabled
Tag: 10.02.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the urgent need for debt relief for Puerto Rico & US Virgin Islands; Saudi decision allowing women to drive; Theocrat Roy Moore's Alabama GOP primary victory; Benefit event for CT Immigration Bail Fund
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: 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: 09.04.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the effort to save the DACA program; How deregulation exacerbated the destruction of flood ravaged Southeast Texas; The true face of Antifa & Fight For 15 movement Labor Day protests
Tag: 08.14.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris examines Resistance to Trump Adm; Opposition to a corporate deregulation bill before Congress; a leaked US govt. report on the effects of climate change & CT group supports immigrants threatened w deportation
Tag: 07.17.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses GOP voter suppression tactics; FEC complaint filed on Trump Jr. Russia meeting; Consequences of GOP Senate Healthcare legislation & Refuse Fascism says Trump poses unique threat to democracy
Tag: 06.26.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses consequences of GOP healthcare bill; Disability Rights Activists Protest Trumpcare; Corporate dominance of US politics fuels rising inequality & CT Indivisible group resists Trump agenda
Tag: 06.12.17 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses investigations into multiple Trump scandals; People's Summit and the Progressive Agenda; Jeremy Corbyn & Labor Party's unexpected UK election gains; Chris Hedges on Current US Political Crisis
Tag: 05.08.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the dark repercussions of the GOP healthcare bill; Economic issues in the French election; Trump signs "religious liberty" executive order; CT Roundtable on Climate and Jobs campaign update
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: 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: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the GOP Healthcare Failure; Progressives campaign to block Gorsuch SCOTUS nomination; Over 10,000 Women sign-up to run for public office; Palestinian Dance-Rap Groups Tours US and CT
Tag: 02.27.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the results of the DNC chair election; Trump/Pruitt aim to dismantle EPA; Our Revolution's mission and game plan & CCAG 2017 Legislative Agenda
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: 10.10.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses challenges to voter suppression laws, Arrest of NSA contractor for alleged theft of classified data, the AltRight organizing on college campuses, listener calls re: 2016 US presidential election campaign
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: 05.09.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses GOP candidate Donald Trump, Racism and Class; Growing opposition to the TTIP free trade treaty; The murder of Berta Caceres & US aid to Honduras & CT's budget crisis & imminent cuts to social services
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: 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: 03.07.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses voter suppression w journalist Greg Palast; the mission of the new group Bank Whistleblowers United; Political violence in Honduras & Opposition to hospital consolidation in Connecticut
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: 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: 02.01.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses what happens if Bernie Sanders loses; Democracy Awakening actions in Wash. D.C. in April; Eyewitness to Oregon militia takeover & fight over public lands; Immigration as a central issue in Election 2016
Tag: 01.18.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Democratic candidate's debate on single payer health care; Excerpt of MLK Jr. speech on, "The Other America," Black Lives Matter protests on MLK holiday weekend & GE's move from CT to Boston/taxation
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: 12.14.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Donald Trump and his racism; Assesses the agreement negotiated at the Paris climate summit; Examines the results of Venezuela's legislative election & Ongoing CT janitors contract talks & strike threat
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: 11.02.15: 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: 10.05.15: 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: 09-21-15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses racism in the 16' Election Campaign; Ralph Nader on the new Tort Law Museum; Deferred prosecution of GM for deadly car flaws; NLRB Invalidated union elections at two CT hospitals