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) Laura Carlsen, Coordinator of Global Solidarity and Learning, with Just Associates in Mexico City, and Director of MIRA: Feminisms and Democracies, a think tank also based in Mexico City. She'll discuss Claudia Sheinbaum's historic election victory as Mexico's first female president, and the former energy scientist's agenda, future relations with the US, and domestic policy challenges she'll face ahead.

2) Marjorie Cohn, professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, past president of the National Lawyers Guild and author, discusses the ongoing Israeli military's slaughter of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, and the important issues examined in her recent article, "Following International Court of Justice (ICJ) and International Criminal Court (ICC) Actions, Sanctions and Arms Embargo Are Crucial Next Steps."

3) Tim Judson, Executive Director of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) talks about his group's mission, "to create a sustainable energy future without nuclear power," and the current push internationally to revive the nuclear power industry that included an agreement announced at the UN's 2023 COP28 climate conference to "triple global nuclear energy capacity by 2050 to meet climate goals and energy needs."

4) Best-selling author and investigative journalist Greg Palast, who’s been reporting on voter suppression for over 20 years, discusses his latest investigation, "Trump Plan for 2024 taken From KKK Plan of 1946," as well as his new documentary film, "Vigilantes Inc,” that will be distributed nationally before the 2024 US presidential election.

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