Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris, is heard every Monday night on WPKN 89.5 FM, Bridgeport, CT between 8:00 - 10:00 pm ET. Webstreaming and audio archive at http://wpkn.org

1) John Coequyt, Global Climate Policy director with the Sierra Club talks about the importance of the U.N. Climate Summit meeting that began Monday, Nov. 30th in Paris, and the role of the global climate movement in pressuring governments to take concrete urgent action to address the causes of global warming.

2) John Quigley, professor emeritus of international law at Ohio State University and author of, "The Ruses for War," discusses Turkey's recent shooting down of a Russian jet fighter, both the motivation and repercussions -- as well as prospects for world and regional powers to come together to defeat ISIS in Syria and Iraq, as the government of French President François Hollande has called for.

3) Miranda Blue, Senior Researcher with the group People for the American Way examines the links between the toxic rhetoric of Republican Party politicians and presidential candidates, extremist anti-abortion activists -- and the murder of three people at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic on Friday, Nov. 27th.

4) An excerpt of Presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), speech on democratic socialism. He cited President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Second Bill of Rights,” a program for economic and social justice advanced in 1944 but not yet achieved. Other topics included his ideas for defeating ISIS and whether or not the U.S. should accept Syrian war refugees following the terrorist attacks in Paris.

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