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) Ralph Nader, America’s leading public interest lawyer, four-time independent presidential candidate and bestselling author talks about his newest book, "Let's Start the Revolution: Tools for Displacing the Corporate State and Building a Country that Works for the People." He'll also comment the 2024 presidential election and Israel's ongoing war in Gaza.

2) Trita Parsi, Executive Vice President with the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, examines Israel's recent assassinations of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, and Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut -- the threat of a wider war involving Iran, and what's driving Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's actions that risks a major conflict that would likely draw in the U.S.

3) Seraj Assi, a Palestinian writer living in Washington, DC, and author of "My Life As An Alien," discusses the important issues examined in his recent Jacobin article, "Israel Is Slaughtering Journalists With No Consequences," and other issues related to the war in Gaza, rising violence in the occupied West Bank and the recent Israeli assassinations of the political leader of Hamas, and a Senior Hezbollah commander, that could explode into a wider Middle East war.

4) Steve Ellner, a retired professor at Venezuela’s Universidad de Oriente where he taught since 1977, author and currently associate managing editor of the publication Latin American Perspectives, discusses the results of Venezuela's July 28th election, U.S./regional response to President Maduro's claim of victory & opposition protests -- touching on some of the issues examined in his recent NACLA article, "What the Mainstream Media Isn’t Saying About Venezuela’s María Corina Machado."

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