Tag: 10.28.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris on media's failure to responsibly report on Trump's candidacy; Michelle Obama on what's at stake for reproductive rights; Vigilante Nation: MAGA's attack on democracy; Trump's plan to subvert election outcome |
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: 10.14.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses GOP Plan to Undermine Presidential Election; Project 2025's Sabotage of Federal Disaster Response; Sanders Pushes Bill to Stop US Weapons Sales to Israel; the Nuts & Bolts of Progressive Electoral Success |
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: 09.16.24 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Donald Trump's stochastic terrorism; Protecting 2024 election against multiple threats; Singer-song writer Bill Bragg's 40 yr career; Growing repression & violence in El Salvador under Pres. Nayib Bukele |
Tag: 09.09.24: Counterpoint Host Scott Harris discusses Mark Green's new book The Inflection Election; University repression of student Gaza war protests; Our Climate Future: Apocalypse or Utopia Portland Maine city council divests from Israel |
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: 08.12.24 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: 07.29.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses The Coming Vicious GOP Attacks on Kamala Harris; Project 2025 is a Christian Nationalist Agenda; Trump's Depraved Love of Nuclear Weapons; Democratic Party Dysfunction Led to Disastrous Biden Candidacy |
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: 07.15.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris on GOP attempts to use failed assassination to shut down criticism of Trump; Left victory in French elections offers lessons to US; Poll finds Americans reject Project 2025; Voters of Tomorrow target youth vote |
Tag: 07.08.24 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses dangerous SCOTUS ruling on presidential immunity; Concerned Democrats hesitate to replace Joe Biden; Jewish Biden Adm staff resigns in protest over US Gaza policy; Trump contagion spreads in US electorate |
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: 05.13.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris on Israelis Expect ICC Netanyahu Arrest Warrant; Students Risk Careers by Protesting Israel's Barbaric Gaza War; Trump's Contempt for Women Exposed in Hush Trial; CT Student Climate campaign targets insurance Cos. |
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: 04.08.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's plan for authoritarian rule; Israel attack on Iran embassy could trigger regional war; GOP weaponizes disinformation on immigration; Congressional TikTok ban ignores larger issue of data privacy |
Tag: 03.18.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Biden's contradictory, deadly Gaza policies; Haiti crisis draws international intervention again; Free speech groups oppose Congressional TikTok ban; Trump 2024 voter purge operation targets dem voters |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Corporate media coverage of Election 2024; Humanitarian crisis & starvation in Gaza; Addressing media bias in reporting on Gaza & Palestine; CT bill supports local news outlets w state ad revenue |
Tag: 03.04.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Addressing affordable housing crisis in CT; Christian extremists working to impose theocracy; SCOTUS delays Trump's Jan6 trial til after election; The Gaza catastrophe, morality and US politics |
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: 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: 01.22.24: 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: 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: 12.11.23: 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: 10.23.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the humanitarian emergency in Gaza; Danger of a wider Middle East War; DOJ must investigate GOP theft of election machine software; Targeting Harvard pro-Palestinian student activists |
Tag: 10-09-23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Hamas brutal attack on Israel; Trump-GOP incitement of violence; Role of sanctions in US southern border crisis; Azerbaijani ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh |
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: 08.14.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses US Role in Ousting Pakistan's Prime Minister; US Media Repeating Same Mistakes Covering Trump 24 Campaign; Data Collection Crucial as New COVID Wave Looms; March to End Fossil Fuels 9-17-23 in NYC |
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: WPKN Special Panel Discussion on Trump Indictment re: His Criminal Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election |
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: 06.26.23: 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: 05.29.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Ron DeSantis' fascist threat; Massive Pentagon budget untouched in debt ceiling debate; Flood of Venezuelan migrants linked to US sanctions; Students, alumni resist DeSantis' destruction of New College |
Tag: 05.15.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses The GOP's fascist agenda a threat to US democracy; Biden should invoke the 14th Amendment to neutralize GOP's debt ceiling threat; US hypocrisy generates ill will in Global South; Haiti's ongoing crisis |
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: 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: 03.20.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris Discusses Bank Failures & the Need to Toughen Regulation; Biden Breaks Pledge Not to Permit New Oil Drilling on Federal Lands; Echoes of US Iraq Invasion in Russia's Ukraine War; Climate Activists Target US Banks |
Tag: 03.06.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Fox News Propaganda & Free Speech; Saving Social Security w/out Cutting Benefits; Azerbaijan's blockade Triggers Humanitarian Crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh; Rise in Israel-Palestine Violence, Major Protests |
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: 01.16.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses GOP Extremists Burning Down the House; Lula Shows US how to Deal with a Violent Coup; GOP Votes to Repeal Funding for IRS Enabling Rich Tax Cheats; Martin Luther King's Radical Social Justice Legacy |
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: 12.26.22: 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: 11.14.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses major issues in the 2022 midterm election; the importance of the youth vote in blocking the GOP red wave; How polls & media spin got the midterm election wrong; CT Progressives won big in Nov 8th election |
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: 10.17.22: 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: Counterpoint host Scott Harris presents an excerpt of a public forum titled, "The Looming Threat of Fascism," Biden student debt forgiveness plan a good start; Big Oil has given $1 million to fuel seditionists; CT health insurers seek big rate hikes |
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: 07.25.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Will DOJ prosecute Donald Trump for his attempted coup?; Biden administration mishandling the ongoing battle against COVID; Biden Must take action on climate crisis; New film documentary on WPKN Radio |
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: 07.04.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses multiple crises facing US on July 4 holiday; Activists protest the end of reproductive rights in 60 cities 7-4-22; SCOTUS extremist justices impose minority rule; Attorney offers hope on post-Roe era |
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: 05.23.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses "replacement theory" and the GOP fascist threat to democracy; Abortion fight moves to the states; GOP & Democrats primary election winners/losers; Corporate price gouging exploits inflation |
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: 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: 01.17.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses MLK's lessons to address today's US voting rights crisis; Demands to close Guantanamo after 20 years; Canada needs to prepare for America's turn to fascism; 2 years after police killed Mubarak Soulemane |
Tag: 01.10.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses mobilizing the nation to oppose a Trump fascist takeover; Georgia ground zero for future election theft; Dissecting the 'Big Lie' and conspiracy theories; Climate civil disobedience support center |
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: 11.01.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses troubling signs from the January 6th Investigation; urgent action required to vaccinate the world; Trump and his fascist movement examines; Poor People's Campaign action to protect Biden's social programs |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Congressional negotiations on Pres. Biden's tax proposals; Efforts to protect climate provisions in the Build Back Better plan; The need to decolonize wealth; Efforts to establish a national infrastructure bank |
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: 09.20.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's post-Jan 6th nuclear war threat; Biden creates military alliance to counter China; Occupy Wall Street Lessons Learned 10 Years Later & CT Working Families Bridgeport City Council candidates win |
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: 08.16.21: 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: 08.09.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the life and legacy of the late labor leader Richard Trumka; Investigating Trump's attempted coup; How progressives lost Ohio primary election; Urgent need to address global COVID vaccine access gap |
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: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses investigation of wealthiest Americans tax evasion; Trump DOJ spying on journalists, lawmakers; Campesino elected president of Peru & CT poised to legalize recreational use of marijuana |
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: 05.17.21: 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: 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: 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: 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: 02.15.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses evidence of Trump's criminal conduct in Insurrection; Coalition pushes Biden to Close US Guantanamo prison; Wave of hate crimes against Asian Americans; Investigate Trump & McConnell for treason |
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: 01.18.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Investigating the security failure before the Capitol insurrection; Holding Trump's GOP enablers accountable; Defunding GOP Legislators who tried to overthrow democracy; Climate, COVID & Capitalism |
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: 12.21.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Post-Trump threats to US democracy; Progressive group launch "No Honeymoon For Biden" campaign; Trump's 'herd immunity' policies infected millions; Bridgeport Mutual Aid provides COVID assistance |
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: 12.07.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the ongoing threat of Trump-GOP authoritarianism; Reforms needed to respond to Trump corruption; Media democracy agenda for the Biden administration; Our Revolution working to push Biden left |
Tag: 11.30.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump lawbreaking and lies; President-elect Biden's Cabinet choices; Climate issues and Biden's campaign pledges; The assassination of Iran's top nuclear scientist and its consequences |
Tag: 11.23.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's attack on the U.S. Constitution; Repairing our broken system of checks and balances; Assessing the threat of Trump-GOP fascism/authoritarianism & CCAG campaigns for CT public healthcare option |
Tag: 11.16.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses 2020 election outcome & Trump refusal to concede; Democrats debate House losses; Trump mass firings at Pentagon; Future of healthcare under Biden; 2020 Gandhi Peace Awards |
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: 11.02.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the national election protection plan; US media coverage of the 2020 election campaign; How Trump's cult following will respond if he loses; Scenarios for GOP election theft. |
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: 10-12-20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the threat of right wing extremist violence during the Nov. 3rd election; Bolivia's 10-18-20 election; Trump, COVID and the nuclear football and the call for opening the presidential debates |
Tag: 10.05.20 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the threat of white supremacist violence in the 2020 election; the deepening US economic crisis; Supreme Court confirmation battle & New WPKN programs |
Tag: 09.28.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the police killing of Breonna Taylor; Leak of Trump's income taxes; The value of international observers in US 2020 Election; "The Connecticut Man Who Led a Plot to Overthrow Franklin Roosevelt" |
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: 09.14.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the coalition formed to protect the election results; Refugees created by US Post-9/11 wars; Warnings to progressives of a 2nd Trump election victory; Normalization of Israel, UAE, Bahrain relations |
Tag: 09.07.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the plight of low wage restaurant workers in the pandemic; Concern re: Trump rushing vaccine before the election; Militias & vigilante violence at BLM protests & Police abuse CT Senate Majority Leader |
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: 08.10.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's abrogation of nuclear arms control treaties; Congressional failure to pass COVID-19 rescue package; CT Democratic Senate Dist 17 primary candidates Farmer & Cabrera; New book: "Burglar For Peace" |
Tag: 08.03.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump attacks on Post Office; Federal COVID failure designed to sacrifice blue states; Congress must vote funds to run election amid COVID challenge & CT coalition demands transformative systemic change |
Tag: 07.27.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses secret federal forces repressing Portland social justice protests, the coming US eviction crisis; Book discussion: "White Christian Privilege"; CT Police Accountability legislation moves to State Senate |
Tag: 07.20.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses: Secret federal police in Portland; Extreme right groups look for opportunities in COVID-19 crisis; Trump gutting NEPA environmental law; Fox News continues to promote deadly coronavirus disinformation |
Tag: 07.13.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's push to reopen schools; US economic system's failure to deal with COVID pandemic; Biden-Sanders Task Force tackles climate change; Author Greg Palast on his new book, "How Trump Stole 2020." |
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: 06.29.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Congressional legislative action on police violence; Dramatic rise in coronavirus cases nationwide; Black Rock's unregulated economic power and influence & Building a new People's Party |
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: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses: Police killing of George Floyd that triggered militant protests; President Trump's culpability for 100k COVID19 deaths; Trump attempts to punish Twitter; CT protest against gas power plant; Black Panther podcast |
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: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump adm failure to address pandemic, Ensuring Vote-By-Mail is a safe option in Nov election; Maya Cummings candidate for MD's Congressional 7th Dist; Lives on the line for SEIU Healthcare 1199 NE union members |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Nurses' demand for protective equipment & sane policies; The link between the pandemic & Fascism; Coronavirus exposes failings of US food system & Local cultural venues battle to survive the pandemic lockdown |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Organizing for structural change triggered by COVID-19; Report: "Billionaire Bonanza 2020" how the current crisis exacerbates inequality; May Day worker strikes boost labor; CT Campaign to secure mail-in ballots |
Tag: 04.27.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Democrats' need to push coronavirus aid for working families; Crisis opportunities for change; Hate groups exploit COVID-19 pandemic & CT Sheraton Hotel workers lose jobs and company health insurance |
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: 04.13.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses massive unemployment leading to loss of health insurance; Racial disparity in COVID-19 deaths; Bernie Sanders progressive legacy; Calls for COVID-19 debt cancellation for poorest nations |
Tag: 04.06.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Donald Trump's mental health status & mismanagement of COVID-19 crisis; Coronavirus pandemic exposes how corporate values damage public policy; hazards of mail-in voting & the plight of farmworkers |
Tag: 03.30.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the government's COVID-19 response, The impact of inequality during the pandemic; Urgent need for universal healthcare & Assessing Connecticut's response to the Coronavirus threat |
Tag: 03.23.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Coronavirus & insurance industry profits; Senators accused of insider trading; COVID-19 devastates the world economy; Biden vs. Biden on how to attack coronavirus & Occupied Palestine & the pandemic |
Tag: 03.16.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses media coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, the inadequacy of the US social safety net to respond to the outbreak of COVID-19; Addressing racism in the US & Views on today's Cuban culture and politics |
Tag: 03.09.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Bernie Sander's presidential campaign; U.S. attempting to extradite Wikileaks' Julian Assange from UK; Coronavirus and Medicare For All & CT Working Families Party 2020 legislative agenda |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses public health preparedness and the Coronavirus; the Trump regime's new "Denaturalization" section at the DOJ; Progressives vs. moderates in Democratic primary & Post-Trump impeachment call to action |
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: 02.10.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's impeachment acquittal & Democratic primary campaign; The power of money in US politics; House passage of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act & Decrying conditions at New Haven, CT's jail |
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: 01.27.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Senate impeachment trial & the constitution; Media bias against progressives in Democratic primary campaign; The collapse of Honduras causing immigrants to flee & Climate activism on trial |
Tag: 01.20.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses: Nationwide protests call for Trump's removal from office; The continuing campaign to ratify the ERA to the US Constitution; What a Sanders presidency would look like & Growing political crisis in Haiti |
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: 12.23.19: 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: 12-09-19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the latest in the Trump impeachment inquiry; Trump cuts to 700,000 SNAP/Food Stamp recipients; White House-Congressional talks on NAFTA 2.O/USMCA; CT Common Cause legislative agenda |
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: 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: 11.18.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the progress of the Trump impeachment inquiry; Corporate media coverage of the Impeachment hearings; Five + months of militant protest in Hong Kong; Challenging Facebook's monopoly & use of personal data |
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: 10.21.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses continuing danger of Turkey's invasion of northern Syria; Growing U.S. Inequality; Calculating Medicare for All costs; Opposition to Killingly, CT natural gas power plant |
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: 10.07.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the widening Trump impeachment inquiry; Bernie Sander's heart attack & double standards for protecting whistleblowers; Former Brazilian President Lula's corrupt prosecutors; Alabama lawsuit on Census |
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: 09.23.19: 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: 09.02.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Britain's Brexit crisis; Trump regime's effort to deport severely ill children; Assessing labor support for the Green New Deal & CT Mobilizes for Global Climate Strike Sept. 20th |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the new U.S.-Russia nuclear arms race; Bernie Sanders' groundbreaking workplace democracy proposal; Move to establish domestic terrorism statute open to FBI abuse & The fires burning down the Amazon rainforest |
Tag: 08.19.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Israel's travel ban against Reps. Omar & Tlaib; Progressive presidential candidates' electability; Truck rams through peaceful protest at ICE detention center & New Haven moving to Sanctuary City status |
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: 08.05.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the debate on Medicare for All; Trump administration proposal to deny 3.1 million food insecure Americans food stamps; Anti-Fascist organizing in Tennessee & Two mass shootings kill 31 in 13 hours |
Tag: 07.29.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Puerto Rico's July uprising; "The Making of a Democratic Economy," with co-author Ted Howard; the fight to block Trump's effort to deny asylum seeker's rights & Trump's reinstatement of federal executions |
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: 06.17.19 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: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's Mexico tariff "crisis"; The rise in hate crimes & right wing extremist violence; Nationwide Day of Action calling for Trump impeachment & CT's new law mandating 2k megawatts of wind power |
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: 05.13.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the debate over impeachment of Pres. Trump; US pushing confrontation with Iran; Local activists make progress on election reform; CT progressives advocate fair & just state budget |
Tag: 05.06.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses deadly US Venezuela sanctions; Charities donate to hate groups; Insurance industry opposition to Medicare4All; Measure to stop US involvement in Yemen War fails; Breslin, Hamill & journalism |
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: 04.22.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the debate on impeaching Donald Trump; White House executive orders easing regulations on fossil fuel pipelines; Report on asylum-seekers at the US- Mexico Border; Climate Change event in Bridgeport, CT |
Tag: 04.15.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses What Israeli election results mean for Palestinians; Advocacy for Dialogue in Strife-Torn Venezuela; Why Indictment of Assange Poses threat to Press Freedom & 31,000 Workers Strike Stop & Shop |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's success in confirming record number of extreme right federal judges; Gerald Horne on race in America; socialism vs. capitalism and inequality in the U.S. today; Yale student divestment campaign |
Tag: 04.01.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump legal effort to rule ObamaCare unconstitutional; 40th anniversary of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident; Holding ExxonMobil accountable for climate change denial & CT climate change legislation |
Tag: 03.25.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the conclusion of the Mueller probe into Trump-Russia Collusion; Trump's recognition of Israel's control of disputed Golan Heights; Assessing Bernie Sanders' 2016 & 2020 presidential candidacy |
Tag: 03.18.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses CT Supreme Court ruling on Sandy Hook lawsuit against gunmaker; Congress poised to invoke War Powers Act against Yemen War; US Delegation to Iran see impact of Trump Sanctions; CT Immigration Rights Bills |
Tag: 03.11.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses charges of antisemitism against Rep. Ilhan Omar; US government surveillance of immigration rights activists; Report from Iraq after ISIS & Youth Climate Strike in CT & worldwide March 15th |
Tag: 03.04.29: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the failure of the Trump-Kim summit meeting; proposed tax on social media ads to fund journalism; the ongoing crisis in Venezuela; Connecticut progressive legislative agenda 2019 |
Tag: 02.25.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the rise of hate groups across the U.S.; Prospects for U.S.-Taliban Afghan war peace talks; New wave of anti-government protests in Haiti & Proposed criminal justice reforms in CT |
Tag: 02-11-19 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses strengths & weaknesses of the proposed Green New Deal; Campaign to defund ICE & CBP; Book: "State of Confusion: Political Manipulation & the Assault on the American Mind," & Trump intervention in Venezuela |
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: 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: 01.21.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the L.A. teachers strike; Economic and political crisis in Venezuela; Proposed anti-BDS legislation in the US Senate; Trump border wall shutdown & 2020 Census question |
Tag: 01.14.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses legality of Trump declaring emergency to build his wall, Consequences of the government shutdown, Media false equivalencies in Trump wall debate, CT progressive agenda under new governor Ned Lamont |
Tag: 01.07.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's border wall & govt. shutdown; House Dems' new H.R.1 voting rights/ethics bill; Net Neutrality update & Bernie Sanders' delegates network reactivated |
Tag: 12.17.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the UN Climate Summit w US elected officials; Disturbing history of Trump's AG Nominee William Barr; Groundbreaking Senate vote against Yemen War & Green New Deal financing via Public Banks |
Tag: 12.10.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the unsanitized history of the late G.H.W. Bush; Fossil fuel & debt protest at Yale; RIP Medical Debt project & AMLO Mexico's new progressive President |
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: 11.26.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the new Democratic Congress & Medicare4All; General Motors' Layoff Announcement; US tear gasses immigrants at Mexico border; List of 15 articles of impeachment for Trump |
Tag: 11.19.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses climate activist sit-in of Nancy Pelosi's office; Congress could end the Yemen War; Ranked Choice Voting succeeds in Maine; Addiction recovery support in CT & Petition seeks Khashoggi's body from Saudis |
Tag: 11.12.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses voter suppression in the 2018 midterm election; Protecting the Mueller probe after Trump fires AG Jeff Sessions; a progressive agenda for the Democratic House & Connecticut election results |
Tag: 11.05.18: Counterpoint Scott Harris discusses prospects for progressives in the 2018 midterm election; Immigrants stepping up to run for office; If Democrats win the House subpoena power can reclaim the mantle of populism; Trump demonizes immigrants |
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: 10.15.18: 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: Resistance Round Table -- October 13, 2018 |
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: 09.17.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses current NAFTA negotiations; Labor resists Philippines Pres. Duterte's violence & repression; GOP voter suppression & intimidation in N.Carolina; Singer songwriter Jackson Browne accepts Gandhi Peace Award |
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: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Facebook online censorship; Cohen guilty pea, Manafort guilty verdict threatens Trump presidency; Nationwide Strike to End Prison Slavery & Thousand Doors for Justice day of action 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: 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: 07.23.18: 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: 07.16.18: 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: 07.09.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's Supreme Court nominee; Grassroots push to reform the Democratic Party; Trump EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's resignation; Medicare For All Town Hall meeting in CT |
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: 06.25.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses immigration crisis on U.S. Mexico border; What's next for the Poor People's Campaign; SCOTUS punts on gerrymandering cases & Progressive candidate AMLO set to win Mexican presidential election |
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: 06.11.18: 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: 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: 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: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's likely announcement withdrawing the US from the Iran nuclear deal; Trump, Pruitt Dismantle the EPA; Trump scandal circus exposes contempt for rule of law; CT Working Families Party 2018 Legislative Agenda |
Tag: 04.30.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump plan to increase public housing rent; Ralph Nader on Trump, empire & the military budget; Brazil's politics move dangerously to the right; CT Bail fund Mothers Day project |
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: 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: 04.02.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump administration efforts to privatize the VA; Inclusion of a controversial citizenship question in the 2020 Census; Assessing Trump's trade policies & NAFTA negotiations & CT energy policies |
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: 03.19.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's nominee, accused torturer Gina Haspel to be CIA director; Trump's drive to militarize space; the success of the West Virginia's teachers strike & National Popular Vote bill in the CT legislature |
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: 02.19.18: 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: 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: 01.29.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Rising global inequality; Trump re-negotiation of NAFTA treaty; CT prosecutors report on police shooting of 15-year old Jayson Negron; Future of President's Commission on alleged voter fraud |
Tag: 01.22.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Trump Resistance movement one year later; Trump nuclear strategy a clear and present danger; DACA and ending the government shutdown; Hartford public forum on Fascism & Anti-Fascism |
Tag: 01.15.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris talks about Donald Trump's mental health with Dr. Bandy Lee; The Nation magazine's John Nichols assesses Tump's racism; New lawsuit challenges Trump policy on Guantanamo US prison; Women's March in Hartford, CT |
Tag: Resistance Round Table -- Jan. 13, 2017 |
Tag: 01.08.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses new South/ North Korea talks; Trump Responds to Iran protests; Coalition Counters Christian Right Message on Religious Freedom Day; Newsletter Connects New Haven's Progressive Community |
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: 12.11.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses fallout from Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital; Trump proposal to establish a private spy agency; Post-Election crisis in Honduras; Yale University fossil fuel divestment campaign |
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: 11.27.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Combating sexual harassment with a Women's Solidarity Network; Re-imagining Change to challenge Trump agenda; Surprise winner of Honduras presidential election; Timothy Snyder on threats to Democracy |
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: 10.16.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's decertification of Iran Nuclear Deal, End of Obamacare subsidy's Impact on Americans; US Peace Movement Awakens; South Korean peace activist to speak in New Haven |
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: 09.11.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the future of the Democratic Party; The Trump-GOP tax cut agenda; The US role in the 2009 coup in Honduras & The Sept. 11, 1973 Chile Coup 44 years later |
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: 08.28.17: 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: 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: Resistance Round Table -- Aug. 12, 2017 |
Tag: 08-07-17 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump DOJ plan to sue universities re "reverse discrimination"; GOP Immigration bill would deeply cut # legal migrants entering US;The crisis in Venezuela continues; NAACP Issues Missouri travel advisory |
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: 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: 07.10.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses protests on climate and other issues at the G20 summit in Germany; DEA operations in Honduras kill civilians; Flash Mob at White House Demands Trump Impeachment; Addressing CT State budget deadlock |
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: 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: 06.19.17: 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: 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: Interview with Farhha Feroz |
Tag: Resistance Round Table -- June 10, 2017 |
Tag: 06.05.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the consequences of Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord; California proposed move to single payer healthcare; Causes of the current crisis in Brazil & Sustaining the Trump Resistance movement |
Tag: 05.29.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses legal basis for impeaching Trump; The Trump budget's threat to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid; Pentagon wants to send 5,000 more US troops to Afghanistan & Ralph Nader receives Gandhi Peace Award |
Tag: 05.22.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the investigations into Trump-Russia collusion; Fmr Sen. Joe Lieberman to lead the FBI?; New graduate union at Yale pressures admin to negotiate; Saudis & US fuel carnage in Yemen's civil war |
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: 05.08.17: 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: 04.24.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump Justice Dept. plans to indict WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange; Progressive Democrats mobilize to win special elections; Results of the French election & a speech by BDS founder Omar Barghouti |
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: 04.03.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's repeal of Obama climate change regulations and Internet privacy rules; US military escalation in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan & Yemen and New If Not Now movement protests US-Israel policy on Palestine |
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: 03.20.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Trump proposed budget; An effort challenging a campaign calling for a Constitutional Convention; Assessing the failure of Trump's Travel Ban 2.0 & Opposing a bill weakening gun purchase restrictions |
Tag: 03.13.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses 24 million who will lose health insurance with TrumpCare; Trump EPA head doubles down on climate change denial; L.A. Kauffman on her new book, "Direct Action;" Bush-Era Surveillance Prgrm Contradictions |
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: Interview #2 With Ben Howe of the Red State Blogn- Subject Donald Trump |
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: 02.13.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses concerns re: Jeff Sessions as Trump Attorney General; What the Anti-Trump Movement Needs to Sustain itself; Trump's new FCC head targets Net Neutrality & Groups organize to protect immigrant community |
Tag: Resistance Round Table (Armageddon Update) -- Feb. 11, 2017 |
Tag: Address by Rev. William Barber at the Yale Divinity School -- Feb. 3, 201 |
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: 01.30.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the explosion of anti-Trump protests nationwide; Challenging the constitutionality of Trump's Muslim Ban; Wash., DC mass arrests of inauguration protesters; Unions protest Trump Immigration policies |
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: 01.16.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses charges that Russia hacked the US election; Fighting back against voter suppression in the 2016 election; Self-defense in the Trump era; Protests planned for the Trump inauguration in Washington & locally |
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 GOP sabotage of election recounts in rustbelt states;Trump & GOP agenda to repeal ObamaCare; Trump's frightening tweets calling for a new nucelar arms race; CT Green Party Elex Results & push for public banking |
Tag: 12.19.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses charges Russia hacked the US Presidential election; Trump's nomination of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General; Trump's "oilgarchy" nominations re: environment & climate & New Haven 12-21-16 antiracist vigil |
Tag: WPKN's Post-election Issues Program -- Dec. 10, 2016 |
Tag: 12.12.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses how Democrats can challenge the Trump agenda, Commentary on the alleged Russian role in the US election; Legal status of opposition to Dakota Access pipeline & protests planned for Trump inauguration |
Tag: Digging in the Dirt - Interview with Ben Howe - Director of "The Sociopath" |
Tag: Interview with Bishop John Selders of Moral Monday CT |
Tag: 12.05.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the GOP threat to privatize Social Security & Medicare; Fidel Castro's legacy & future of US-Cuba relations under Trump regime; Plans for Womens March on Washington & Danbury, CT Vigil for Unity & Justice |
Tag: 11.28.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses racism in the incoming Trump administration; election recounts in key battleground states; 2016 CT legislative election results; US media coverage of presidential election campaign |
Tag: 11.21.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses progressive organizing under the coming Trump regime; Opposition rising to Trump proposed Muslim ban & registry; the issue of inequality in the 2016 election & Greg Palast on how the election was stolen |
Tag: 11.14.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris assesses reasons why Hillary Clinton lost the election; How progressive activists are working to re-shape the Democratic Party; Campaign to nullify anti-democratic effect of the Electoral College; listener calls |
Tag: 11.07.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses election protection; Opposition campaign against Dakota Access pipeline; Electoral Reform; Maine ranked choice voting referendum; Voter intimidation threat election day |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Russia's alleged role in the 2016 US election; Mass goverment surveillance under the next president; opposition to the proposed AT&T-Time Warner merger & Obamacare's flaws and proposed reforms/replacements |
Tag: Recipe for the Trump Slimy and the Hillary Winner-take-all Cake |
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: 10.17.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the US election and fears of a new cold war with Russia; a post-election strategy for the U.S. progressive movement; Haiti disaster after Hurricane Matthew & Art & climate change in New Haven, CT |
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: 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: 09.26.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses recent police shootings and protest; U.S. nuclear policy and the danger of nuclear war; Pro-sports athletes and Black Lives Matter protest & SURJ-CT organizes White people for racial justice |
Tag: 09.12.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses democracy reform in the presidential debates; the ongoing campaign to defeat the TPP trade bill; the growth of renewable energy sources & a landmark case on CT's unequal education system |
Tag: 09.05.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Donald Trump's visit to Mexico; EU penalty against Apple for tax avoidance; Concern re: Sander's Our Revolution group; Yale Graduate students push for labor union & local protest re: N. Dakota pipleline |
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: 08.15.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Hillary Clinton's embrace of Neoconservative supporters; Trump attendance at extremist anti-gay Orlando event, Montreal's World Social Forum; CT Working Families Party celebrates five primary victories |
Tag: 08.01.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses economic inequality issues in the 2016 election; U.S. policy re: Honduras & Brazil; UFE's popular economic education & Views of the DNC from a Bernie Sanders' delegate |
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: 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: 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: 03.21.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses election 2016, the coming jobless economy, Donald Trump & fascism & the political parody: Billionaires & Oligarchs Opposed to Bernie Sanders |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the 5th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster; the free trade issue in the 2016 primary election; Concerns re: manipulation of ballots in the 2016 election & Radioactive leak at Indian Point nuclear plant |
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: 02.01.16: 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: 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: 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 |