Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris, is heard every Monday night on WPKN 89.5 FM, Bridgeport, CT between 8:00 – 9:30 pm ET. Webstreaming and audio archive at http://wpkn.org

1) John Nichols, The Nation magazine's National Affairs correspondent, and author. His latest book is titled, "It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism," cowritten with Senator Bernie Sanders. He'll discuss the recent removal of GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Republican Party dysfunction, and the opportunity for Democrats in future elections, as he wrote about in his recent Nation piece, "Democrats Are on a Winning Streak That Could Transform Our Politics."

2) Christina Harvey, Executive Director of the group Stand Up America discusses her views on President Biden's recent speech where he called out MAGA extremism as a serious threat to our democracy. She'll also talk about related ongoing rightwing extremist violence that is being incited by Donald Trump's hateful threats targeting political opponents, judges, members of marginalized groups, prosecutors and court personnel.

3) Michael A. Paarlberg, Ph.D. Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University assesses the large number of asylum seekers crossing the U.S. southern border, the political and media response, with a focus on the link between U.S. economic sanctions targeting Venezuela and the large number of Venezuelans now seeking to enter the U.S.

4) Sharon Chekijian, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Yale New Haven Hospital discusses the crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh, after the Azerbaijani army launched a military operation on September 19th that has forced 100,000 people — more than 80% of the population — to flee to Armenia. She'll talk about the current situation for those that have been forcibly exiled, the lack of U.S. media attention on this apparent ethnic cleansing operation, and the future of Artsakh's people.

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