Tag: 08.26.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses US doctor's eyewitness account of Gaza war horrors, Racism as a primary motive for supporting Trump; Former Israeli soldier condemns his nation's Gaza war; GOP election deniers change Georgia state rules |
Tag: 07.29.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses The Coming Vicious GOP Attacks on Kamala Harris; Project 2025 is a Christian Nationalist Agenda; Trump's Depraved Love of Nuclear Weapons; Democratic Party Dysfunction Led to Disastrous Biden Candidacy |
Tag: 07.22.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses JD Vance's extremist position on abortion, ICJ rules Israeli occupation of Palestine illegal, As Biden drops out of campaign, what's next, Advocating CT climate crisis legislation |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Arizona Court Activates 1864 Draconian Abortion Ban; Israel Iran Attack Counterattack Could Trigger Regional War; EPA has New Standards for PFAS chemicals in drinking water; Radical Connecticut People's History |
Tag: 09.04.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Dangers of Trump-GOP cult; Oxfam's new Best States to Work report; Health hazards of Japan's dump of radioactive water in Pacific; Excerpt of Bernie Sanders "The State of America's Working" speech |
Tag: 07.17,23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Ohio GOP Referendum Undermines Democracy; Teamsters Prepare for Historic Strike at UPS; Police Repression of Climate Activists on the Rise; Campaign Working to Keep Trump off of 2024 Ballot |
Tag: 06.19.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the GOP's Latest Proposal to Cut Social Security & Medicare; Bernie Sanders on "The State of Working Class America;" BRICS Nations Displace G7 Now in Economic Decline; How to Keep Juneteenth Radical |
Tag: 06.05.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Winners & losers in debt ceiling deal; Proposal for drone moratorium in Ukraine War; SCOTUS weakens EPA Clean Water Act enforcement; GOP book bans come to Connecticut |
Tag: 05.29.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Ron DeSantis' fascist threat; Massive Pentagon budget untouched in debt ceiling debate; Flood of Venezuelan migrants linked to US sanctions; Students, alumni resist DeSantis' destruction of New College |
Tag: 05.15.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses The GOP's fascist agenda a threat to US democracy; Biden should invoke the 14th Amendment to neutralize GOP's debt ceiling threat; US hypocrisy generates ill will in Global South; Haiti's ongoing crisis |
Tag: 04.10.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Protests in France challenge increase in Retirement Age; Wave of mass shootings provokes protest; Article V convention threatens civil liberties; New tactics needed to defeat GOP authoritarianism |
Tag: 03.13.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses GOP repressive laws targeting LGBTQ community; Rightwing campaign to outlaw abortion in 50 states; Biden's proposed federal budget; CT finally moves to adopt early voting |
Tag: 03.06.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Fox News Propaganda & Free Speech; Saving Social Security w/out Cutting Benefits; Azerbaijan's blockade Triggers Humanitarian Crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh; Rise in Israel-Palestine Violence, Major Protests |
Tag: 02.06.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses GOP removal of Rep. Ilhan Omar fr Foreign Affairs Comm; Police violence & paths to reform; New film "The Road to Justice" examines civil rights history; Union protests CT Community College tuition hike |
Tag: 01.16.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses GOP Extremists Burning Down the House; Lula Shows US how to Deal with a Violent Coup; GOP Votes to Repeal Funding for IRS Enabling Rich Tax Cheats; Martin Luther King's Radical Social Justice Legacy |
Tag: 01.02.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses What Motivates Far Right Voters; Title 42 & Crisis on the US Southern Border; Protests Follow Ouster and Arrest of Peru's President; Press Freedom in Jeopardy as US Pursues Julian Assange Extradition |
Tag: 12.12.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the critical Moore v. Harper Supreme. Court case; Voter suppression in Georgia the media missed; Massive Pentagon budget passed by the House & Nursing homes unprepared for ongoing COVID pandemic |
Tag: 11.28.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses veteran social change activist George Lakey's memoir, "Dancing with History;" The devolution of the Republican Party; The unfinished business of COP27 climate summit; Long Island Sound Report Card |
Tag: 11.21.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the midterm election & ongoing GOP threat to democracy; Is DOJ appointment of a special prosecutor another delay to Trump accountability; Assessing the COP-27 climate summit; Poll workers under threat |
Tag: 11.14.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses major issues in the 2022 midterm election; the importance of the youth vote in blocking the GOP red wave; How polls & media spin got the midterm election wrong; CT Progressives won big in Nov 8th election |
Tag: 10.31.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Diplomacy as a path to end Ukraine war; Progressives can help defeat fascistic GOP; GOP's anti-democratic agenda mimics repressive regimes abroad; Media's elex horse race coverage ignores critical issues |
Tag: 09.5.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Trump GOP threat to democracy; Pursuing a negotiated end to the Ukraine war; US labor movement sees historic rise in union organizing drives; CT Folk Festival Celebrates 29th Year Sept. 10th & 11th |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris presents an excerpt of a public forum titled, "The Looming Threat of Fascism," Biden student debt forgiveness plan a good start; Big Oil has given $1 million to fuel seditionists; CT health insurers seek big rate hikes |
Tag: 08.22.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses a new investigation into Georgia GOP voter suppression; Laws criminalizing homelessness enacted across the US; Starbucks lawless anti-union campaign; Political disinformation targets Latino voters |
Tag: 08.15.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses rising tensions between the US & China over Taiwan; Donald Trump and the GOP's embrace of political violence; Assessing the Inflation Reduction Act & Media fails to cover UN treaty to ban nuclear weapons |
Tag: 08.08.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses GOP election deniers win key primary contests; FBI raids Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence; State legislatures ground zero for GOP attack on democracy; Generation Vote Protests at CPAC |
Tag: 08.01.22 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses a new Senate bill that requires Medicare to negotiate some drug prices & imposes a corporate minimum tax; Why the Feds increase in interest rates won't decrease inflation;I Wage Peace service event Aug 7th |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses why Democrats in 2022 election should warn about dangerous extremists; Jan. 6th investigation progress; Lessons from history indigenous women controlled their own bodies; Finding a way to end the Ukraine War |
Tag: 07.04.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses multiple crises facing US on July 4 holiday; Activists protest the end of reproductive rights in 60 cities 7-4-22; SCOTUS extremist justices impose minority rule; Attorney offers hope on post-Roe era |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Christian nationalism & GOP embrace of January 6th insurrection violence; Reforming US electoral college system; Election of Colombia's 1st leftist president; Climate activists protest at Travelers golf tourney |
Tag: 05.30.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the danger of US intervention if China attacks Taiwan; Texas school massacre provokes demands for new gun restrictions; US exaggerates threats to justify bloated Pentagon budget; History of 2nd Amendment |
Tag: 05.02.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Effective Ways to Fight GOP's Culture War; Elon Musk's Purchase of Twitter & Free Speech; Eroding public health measures to combat a deadly pandemic; Jackpot: How the Super-Rich Harms Us All |
Tag: 02.28.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses negotiations to achieve a ceasefire in Ukraine; Averting the danger of a wider war in Europe; The costs of a new, more dangerous cold war with Russia & Ukraine's 15 nuclear reactors could be targets |
Tag: 02.07.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the crisis in Ukraine & danger of a new Cold War; GOP officially endorses political violence; Biden pressured to honor campaign pledge on student debt; CT group advocates policies on climate & jobs |
Tag: 01.17.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses MLK's lessons to address today's US voting rights crisis; Demands to close Guantanamo after 20 years; Canada needs to prepare for America's turn to fascism; 2 years after police killed Mubarak Soulemane |
Tag: 01.10.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses mobilizing the nation to oppose a Trump fascist takeover; Georgia ground zero for future election theft; Dissecting the 'Big Lie' and conspiracy theories; Climate civil disobedience support center |
Tag: 01.03.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the urgent fight to preserve voting rights; Resolving Russia-US confrontation over Ukraine; Challenges ahead for Chile's new progressive president & Candidate Muad Hrezi challenges CT Rep. John Larson |
Tag: 12.20.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses corporate media's distorted inflation coverage; Status of talks on restoring Iran nuclear deal; Doubling efforts to pass voting rights bills; WPKN project to support Black & Latino communities |
Tag: 11.22.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the GOP's embrace of violence endangering democracy; Nov. 15th Cuba protests fizzle; Millions of Afghan civilians face famine; Campaign to preserve Remington Woods Bridgeport CT green space |
Tag: 09.27.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses legislation to protect democracy from GOP attack; Global vaccination shortfall crisis; Activists Pressure Biden on Climate Action & Brutalization of Haitian refugees at US southern border |
Tag: 09.06.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Supreme Court's action on Texas abortion law; The cost of U.S. militarism since 9-11; New documentary film, "The Big Scary 'S' Word; The state of the US Labor movement 2021 |
Tag: 07.26.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses politically driven COVID disinformation; Colombian soldiers arrest in Haitian president's assassination; SCOTUS ruling kills Voting Rights Act & Texas activists mobilize to stop voter suppression |
Tag: 06.28.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris talks about voter suppression with West Virginia activists; Continuing voter purges in Georgia; Former Rep. Dennis Kucinich on his early career battles in Cleveland & Chileans now working on a new constitution |
Tag: 05.31.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the GOP's ongoing insurrection and attack on Democracy; Challenging the US-Israel special relationship; ExxonMobil on losing end of stockholder rebellion & Challenging Muslim discrimination in CT prisons |
Tag: 05.17.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the conflict and loss of life in Israel-Palestine; Massive protests & police violence in Colombia; Right wing 'cancel culture'; WPKN community radio's move to new studios |
Tag: 05.03.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Why Biden may finally end 'Reagan’s Rancid Legacy;' Assessing Biden's climate policies; At 100 days Biden's corporate capture report card; White supremacist organizations & white workers |
Tag: 04.26.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the effort to repeal the Senate filibuster; Florida's "anti-riot" law that criminalizes protest; the campaign to make Washington, D.C. the nation's 51st state; the push for public option healthcare in CT |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Republican Party's turn to fascism; Concern Biden will continue endless U.S. wars; Rush Limbaugh's malevolent influence on US conservative movement; Opposition to CT Gov Lamont's new COVID vaccination plan |
Tag: 02.22.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses GOP push for voter suppression laws; Pressuring Biden to cancel student debt; Haiti protests demand resignation of Jovenel Moise; CT Pushes for Housing as a Right |
Tag: 02.15.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses evidence of Trump's criminal conduct in Insurrection; Coalition pushes Biden to Close US Guantanamo prison; Wave of hate crimes against Asian Americans; Investigate Trump & McConnell for treason |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Pro-Trump domestic terrorist assault on the US Capitol; Republican Party complicity with the insurrection; Trump & GOP legislators must be held accountable; Mubarak Soulemane's family's struggle for justice |
Tag: 12.21.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Post-Trump threats to US democracy; Progressive group launch "No Honeymoon For Biden" campaign; Trump's 'herd immunity' policies infected millions; Bridgeport Mutual Aid provides COVID assistance |
Tag: 12.07.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the ongoing threat of Trump-GOP authoritarianism; Reforms needed to respond to Trump corruption; Media democracy agenda for the Biden administration; Our Revolution working to push Biden left |
Tag: 11.16.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses 2020 election outcome & Trump refusal to concede; Democrats debate House losses; Trump mass firings at Pentagon; Future of healthcare under Biden; 2020 Gandhi Peace Awards |
Tag: 11.02.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the national election protection plan; US media coverage of the 2020 election campaign; How Trump's cult following will respond if he loses; Scenarios for GOP election theft. |
Tag: 10.26.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses a lawsuit against Trump regime voter intimidation; Trump DOJ interference in election vote counts; Campaign to prevent military election intervention & Why mass mobilization can protect the election |
Tag: 09.21.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses concern re a pre-election conflict with Iran; Ruth Bader Ginsburg's legacy; Trump's war on Social Security; Protecting the November election; Trump's criminal sabotage of US pandemic response |
Tag: 08-31-20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses QAnon conspiracy theories and GOP support; Kenosha and Portland BLM Protests and deadly street violence; Will Trump seek foreign conflict to boost re-election?; Build The Wall arrests & Kris Kobach |
Tag: 08.17.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Joe Biden's pick of Kamala Harris as his running mate; Countering Trump's sabotage of the US Post Office; Trump regime's war against nuclear arms control & Demand for a new trial for Jamil Al-Amin |
Tag: 06.08.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses steps that must be taken for genuine policing reform; Trump's dangerous military response to mass US protests; Trump Coronavirus Death Clock & Connecticut Black Lives Matter activists on local cases |
Tag: 04.27.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Democrats' need to push coronavirus aid for working families; Crisis opportunities for change; Hate groups exploit COVID-19 pandemic & CT Sheraton Hotel workers lose jobs and company health insurance |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses public health preparedness and the Coronavirus; the Trump regime's new "Denaturalization" section at the DOJ; Progressives vs. moderates in Democratic primary & Post-Trump impeachment call to action |
Tag: 02.03.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Senate sham impeachment trial of Donald Trump; Trump regime Middle East peace plan dead on arrival; House repeals AUMF, funds for unauthorized Iran war & Initiative to address CT's housing crisis |
Tag: 01.20.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses: Nationwide protests call for Trump's removal from office; The continuing campaign to ratify the ERA to the US Constitution; What a Sanders presidency would look like & Growing political crisis in Haiti |
Tag: 12.23.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the consequences of a sham impeachment trial in the Senate; Court rules ObamaCare unconstitutional; Trump's plan to cut Social Security disability benefits; Campaign to bar ICE agents from CT court house |
Tag: 12-16-19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses nationwide pro-impeachment protests; Conservative defeat of the Labor Party in the UK election; Trump's executive order on antiSemitism a threat to free speech; 'What's Wrong with the Republicans?' |
Tag: 12.02.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Goals of the UN Climate Summit in Madrid; the Crisis in U.S. political parties; Media attacks on progressive Democratic candidates; Assessing CT Governor Ned Lamont's climate and energy agenda |
Tag: 11.18.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the progress of the Trump impeachment inquiry; Corporate media coverage of the Impeachment hearings; Five + months of militant protest in Hong Kong; Challenging Facebook's monopoly & use of personal data |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the formal launch of the House impeachment inquiry; Examining the US history of meddling in Ukraine; Understanding the root cause of Chile's massive protest movement & Assessing the fascist threat in the Trump era |
Tag: 10.14.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Turkey's war on the Kurds in Northern Syria; "The Cult of Trump" author interview; Responding to Trump tweets armed militia groups threaten civil war; Trump exec order will erode Medicare benefits |
Tag: 10.07.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the widening Trump impeachment inquiry; Bernie Sander's heart attack & double standards for protecting whistleblowers; Former Brazilian President Lula's corrupt prosecutors; Alabama lawsuit on Census |
Tag: 09.23.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the threat of a U.S. war with Iran; The case for the impeachment of Donald Trump; Book discussion on "Fault Lines in the U.S. Constitution;" New coalition of farmers & ranchers for a Green New Deal |
Tag: 07.22.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Never Again Action protests to close Trump's inhumane refugee camps; Trump's racist comments attacking "The Squad"; Trump admin deregulation of polluting industries & Medicare4All CT forum 8-17-19 |
Tag: 07.01.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses two recent Supreme Court Rulings on 2020 Census and gerrymandering; U.S. Relations with Russia; Maine candidate challenging Senator Susan Collins & RootsAction's Bad Blues: challenging corporate Democrats |
Tag: Guest hosts Melinda Tuhus & Richard Hill discuss a public health care option for CT; the growing evidence of natural gas fracking health impacts; Trump Iran crisis moves US closer to war & Trump detention of children shameless violation of human rights |
Tag: 04.22.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the debate on impeaching Donald Trump; White House executive orders easing regulations on fossil fuel pipelines; Report on asylum-seekers at the US- Mexico Border; Climate Change event in Bridgeport, CT |
Tag: 03.11.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses charges of antisemitism against Rep. Ilhan Omar; US government surveillance of immigration rights activists; Report from Iraq after ISIS & Youth Climate Strike in CT & worldwide March 15th |
Tag: Resistance Round Table for March 9, 2019. Hosts Scott Harris & Ruth Anne Baumgartner |
Tag: 01.21.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the L.A. teachers strike; Economic and political crisis in Venezuela; Proposed anti-BDS legislation in the US Senate; Trump border wall shutdown & 2020 Census question |
Tag: 01.14.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses legality of Trump declaring emergency to build his wall, Consequences of the government shutdown, Media false equivalencies in Trump wall debate, CT progressive agenda under new governor Ned Lamont |
Tag: 11.19.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses climate activist sit-in of Nancy Pelosi's office; Congress could end the Yemen War; Ranked Choice Voting succeeds in Maine; Addiction recovery support in CT & Petition seeks Khashoggi's body from Saudis |
Tag: 11.05.18: Counterpoint Scott Harris discusses prospects for progressives in the 2018 midterm election; Immigrants stepping up to run for office; If Democrats win the House subpoena power can reclaim the mantle of populism; Trump demonizes immigrants |
Tag: 10.08.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the defeat of groups opposed to Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination; Assessing Trump's renegotiated NAFTA treaty; Fight For 15 stages strikes, protests in 7 states; UCONN's Alternative Press Collection |
Tag: 10-01-18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses what Brett Kavanaugh learned in high school about privilege; protesters who descended on Washington to oppose Kavanaugh nomination; Trump at the UN General Assembly & Ripple Effect Artists theater NYC |
Tag: 09.24.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses voter suppression and the Voting Rights Act; Kavanaugh SCOTUS nomination & sex abuse charges, Lawsuits re: voter purges nationwide; Socialist Action candidate ballot petition chaos |
Tag: 06.25.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses immigration crisis on U.S. Mexico border; What's next for the Poor People's Campaign; SCOTUS punts on gerrymandering cases & Progressive candidate AMLO set to win Mexican presidential election |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's likely announcement withdrawing the US from the Iran nuclear deal; Trump, Pruitt Dismantle the EPA; Trump scandal circus exposes contempt for rule of law; CT Working Families Party 2018 Legislative Agenda |
Tag: 04.16.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Pres.Trump's decision to launch airstrikes against Syria; the GOP plan to cut Social Security, Medicare; Youth activism in the age of Trump & MIT Student Day of Action in Boston |
Tag: 02.12.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses increased military spending in the federal budget; deteriorating human rights conditions in Honduras; The new Poor Peoples' Campaign; California's progressive governor 1939-1943 |
Tag: 01.22.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Trump Resistance movement one year later; Trump nuclear strategy a clear and present danger; DACA and ending the government shutdown; Hartford public forum on Fascism & Anti-Fascism |
Tag: 12.18.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the winners & losers in the GOP tax bill; Fallout from FCC repeal of Net Neutrality; Trump mixed messages on talks with North Korea; The ongoing post-election crisis in Honduras |
Tag: Mic Check -- Dec. 10, 2017 |
Tag: 11.06.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses GOP effort to promote religion in politics; EPA banning of scientists from advisory boards; Democratic party post-election autopsy; Confronting hate & fear in Trump's America |
Tag: 10.09.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Gun control groups' response to Las Vegas mass shooting; Status of Puerto Rico recovery; Trump's move to decertify Iran nuclear deal, CT budget impasse impact on state's disabled |
Tag: 09.18.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's Election Integrity Commission; Supreme Court case on partisan gerrymandering; John Nichol's new book, "Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse" & Connecticut's budget impasse |
Tag: 09.11.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the future of the Democratic Party; The Trump-GOP tax cut agenda; The US role in the 2009 coup in Honduras & The Sept. 11, 1973 Chile Coup 44 years later |
Tag: 08.14.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris examines Resistance to Trump Adm; Opposition to a corporate deregulation bill before Congress; a leaked US govt. report on the effects of climate change & CT group supports immigrants threatened w deportation |
Tag: 06.19.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses US Saudi Arabia role in Yemen's civil war; Charges brought against Michigan officials re: Flint water crisis; GOP attempts to repeal DoddFrank banking regulations; Green Party Pres candidate Jill Stein |
Tag: 05.29.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses legal basis for impeaching Trump; The Trump budget's threat to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid; Pentagon wants to send 5,000 more US troops to Afghanistan & Ralph Nader receives Gandhi Peace Award |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's "Election Integrity" commission; Trump's firing of FBI director poses threat to rule of law; Marine vet says Trump Afghan troop escalation bound to fail; Sustainable agriculture key to food sovereignty |
Tag: 05.08.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the dark repercussions of the GOP healthcare bill; Economic issues in the French election; Trump signs "religious liberty" executive order; CT Roundtable on Climate and Jobs campaign update |
Tag: 05.01.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris assesses Trump's "tax reform" proposal; Trump abets corporate takeover of federal govt apparatus; Women peacemakers call for talks w North Korea; Action Together CT mobilizes opposition to Trump agenda |
Tag: 04.10.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's attack on Syria; GOP Senate detonates nuclear option; March for Science appeals to reason; Koch brothers defeat TrumpCare & Win Keystone XL Pipeline Approval |
Tag: 03.13.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses 24 million who will lose health insurance with TrumpCare; Trump EPA head doubles down on climate change denial; L.A. Kauffman on her new book, "Direct Action;" Bush-Era Surveillance Prgrm Contradictions |
Tag: 03.06.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the links between Trump and Russia; Concern re: the demonization of Putin & Russia and where it may lead; Trump's 2nd Travel Ban executive order & The campaign to declare Bridgeport, CT a Sanctuary City |
Tag: 02.20.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses what President Trump has in common with fascists in US history; Contradictions and confusion on Trump administration's Middle East policy; Movement to Impeach Trump & CT Green Party agenda for 2017 |
Tag: 02.06.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Judge Gorsuch, Trump's SCOTUS nomination; Local, national response to Trump 'Muslim Ban'; Trump Ratchets Up Tension with Iran & Public Education at Risk in fight over Trump's DeVos Nomination |
Tag: 01.30.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the explosion of anti-Trump protests nationwide; Challenging the constitutionality of Trump's Muslim Ban; Wash., DC mass arrests of inauguration protesters; Unions protest Trump Immigration policies |
Tag: 01.23-17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris features speeches & interviews from historic protests against Trump inauguration; Pres. Trump's financial conflicts of interest and violation of ethics & Campaign to end prison solitary confinement |
Tag: 01.09.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Trump agenda & the future of the Democratic party; Israeli policy toward Palestinians; Report from a delegation to Syria & Preview of planned protests at Trump inauguration in Washington, D.C. |
Tag: 12.19.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses charges Russia hacked the US Presidential election; Trump's nomination of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General; Trump's "oilgarchy" nominations re: environment & climate & New Haven 12-21-16 antiracist vigil |
Tag: 12.12.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses how Democrats can challenge the Trump agenda, Commentary on the alleged Russian role in the US election; Legal status of opposition to Dakota Access pipeline & protests planned for Trump inauguration |
Tag: 11.14.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris assesses reasons why Hillary Clinton lost the election; How progressive activists are working to re-shape the Democratic Party; Campaign to nullify anti-democratic effect of the Electoral College; listener calls |
Tag: 09.12.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses democracy reform in the presidential debates; the ongoing campaign to defeat the TPP trade bill; the growth of renewable energy sources & a landmark case on CT's unequal education system |
Tag: 08.01.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses economic inequality issues in the 2016 election; U.S. policy re: Honduras & Brazil; UFE's popular economic education & Views of the DNC from a Bernie Sanders' delegate |
Tag: 07.25.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses protests at Democratic & GOP conventions; Corporate money and its role in major US political parties; the Christian right influence in the Republican party & Sanders supporters anger over Clinton VP pick |
Tag: 06-27-16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the economics of Britain's vote to leave the European Union; Breakthrough: Colombian civil war peace agreement; the People's Summit: what's next for Sanders supporters & listener calls on election 2016 |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses weapons in space; President Obama's historic visit to Hiroshima, Japan and the effort to abolish nuclear weapons; Chris Hedges on the 2016 election & the Green Party of CT 2016 campaign plans |
Tag: 04.18.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the ACLU's lawsuit to get U.S. torture documents; the Next System's nationwide teach-ins; Puerto Rico's debt crisis & the new French "Staying Up All Night" anti-austerity movement |
Tag: 03.07.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses voter suppression w journalist Greg Palast; the mission of the new group Bank Whistleblowers United; Political violence in Honduras & Opposition to hospital consolidation in Connecticut |
Tag: 02.08.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the fight against the TPP trade agreement; Social Security in the election campaign; UN panel's ruling in Julian Assange case & Union representatives respond to CT Gov. Malloy's budget cut & layoff plan |
Tag: 12.14.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Donald Trump and his racism; Assesses the agreement negotiated at the Paris climate summit; Examines the results of Venezuela's legislative election & Ongoing CT janitors contract talks & strike threat |
Tag: 11.02.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Syria's civil war; Bernie Sanders' advocacy of democratic socialism; New Speaker of the House Paul Ryan's politics; Labor struggle at Danbury & New Milford CT hospitals |
Tag: 09-21-15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses racism in the 16' Election Campaign; Ralph Nader on the new Tort Law Museum; Deferred prosecution of GM for deadly car flaws; NLRB Invalidated union elections at two CT hospitals |