WPKN Archives: 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

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Counterpoint

Original Aired:
Monday, August 16th, 2021
8:02PM to 10:02PM

Duration:
2 hours

Posted:
Monday, August 16th, 2021 8:06PM

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democracy afghanistan war congress taliban inequality consumerism climatechange gop trump democrats gerrymandering census sedition insurrection sharia kabul


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Episode: 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

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) Walker Bragman, a reporter with the Daily Poster and attorney whose work has been featured in Paste Magazine, the Intercept, HuffPost, the Independent, Salon, Truthout, and the Hill. He'll discuss his recent article, "Republicans Are Poised to Gerrymander Their Way Into Long-Term Power," about how Democrats missed a critical deadline to stop GOP gerrymandering.

2) Andrew Perez, Senior Editor at the Daily Poster and Co-founder of the Democratic Policy Center talks about his recent article, "Big Corporate Money Is Funding the GOP Election Deniers," which exposes the super PAC behind House Republicans who attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, that took in more money than before the January 6th insurrection.

3) Cynthia Kaufman, Director of the Vasconcellos Institute for Democracy in Action at De Anza College discusses her recent article, "Consumerism, Inequality, and the Climate Crisis," in the context of the recent sobering IPCC report re: climate change and the consequential policy decisions the world must rapidly make if we are to avoid climate catastrophe.

4) Melvin A. Goodman, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and an adjunct professor of international relations at Johns Hopkins University. A former CIA analyst, Goodman is the author of "A Whistleblower at the CIA," his forthcoming book is titled, “The Dangerous National Security State." Prof. Goodman will discuss the fall of Kabul, Washington's policy decisions over the last 2 decades that led to the Taliban victory, and how the fundamentalist Islamic force taking power in Kabul will impact the region, and U.S. policy going forward.

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Show: Counterpoint

Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris, is heard every Monday on WPKN 89.5 FM, Bridgeport, CT between 8:00-10:00 pm ET. Webstreaming is at http://wpkn.org/ . Interview segment archives are at counterpointradio.org .

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