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Tag: 03.18.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Biden's contradictory, deadly Gaza policies; Haiti crisis draws international intervention again; Free speech groups oppose Congressional TikTok ban; Trump 2024 voter purge operation targets dem voters
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: 09.19.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the threat to democracy in the Supreme Court Moore v. Harper case; Wall St. is funding the GOP's culture war; 17 states criminalize fossil fuel protests; Climate activists protest Manchin-Senate deal
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: 01.31.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Pres. Biden's pledge to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court; Dangerous increase in rhetoric in Ukraine crisis risks conflict; California debates single payer healthcare; CT climate march 2/8/22
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Senate failure to pass voting rights bills; Challenging insurrectionist's right to run for public office; Koch Network's war on COVID public health measures; CT campaigns to ban prison solitary confinement
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: 11.29.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Looming deadline for passage of Voting Rights legislation; Study advises progressive candidates how to connect with voters; America's wealthiest own US tax code; Comedy circuit rife with sexual misconduct
Tag: 10.18.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses AT&T support for extremist One America "News" Network; Freedom to Vote Rally-Relay from WV to DC; Rising tensions between US & China; "The Great Strike of 2021" workers abandon the job market
Tag: 07.19.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Senate Negotiations on Medicare Expansion; US response to Cuban protests; CT forum on land use, climate & equity; "Creating a New Moral Political Economy"
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: 04.19.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the crisis in US policing & the Derek Chauvin trial; Biden urged to implement global vaccine manufacturing program; Unions push for passage of PRO Act & Bill would divert missile funds to Covid vaccine
Tag: 04.12.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses GOP voter suppression bills across the US; What's going on in Afghanistan, America's longest war; CT based-Sturm Ruger gun sales to Israel & Gun violence prevention activist's work with faith communities
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: 12.28.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the inadequacies of the COVID relief bill; Lawsuits launched against Google; Proposal to establish a federal infrastructure bank & Post Cards To Voters: an electoral success story
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: 11.11.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses why 70 million voted for Trump; How to abolish the undemocratic Electoral College; Daniel Ellsberg explains why accountability for Trump is critical & How Georgia's voters were purged and restored
Tag: 10.19.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses dark money influencing direction of Supreme Court; Pres. Trump's mental health status; Voter suppression in Indian Country; CT Working Families Party election agenda, Ted Glick's Defeat Trump 30-day fast
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: 08.10.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's abrogation of nuclear arms control treaties; Congressional failure to pass COVID-19 rescue package; CT Democratic Senate Dist 17 primary candidates Farmer & Cabrera; New book: "Burglar For Peace"
Tag: 07.27.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses secret federal forces repressing Portland social justice protests, the coming US eviction crisis; Book discussion: "White Christian Privilege"; CT Police Accountability legislation moves to State Senate
Tag: 06.29.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Congressional legislative action on police violence; Dramatic rise in coronavirus cases nationwide; Black Rock's unregulated economic power and influence & Building a new People's Party
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Organizing for structural change triggered by COVID-19; Report: "Billionaire Bonanza 2020" how the current crisis exacerbates inequality; May Day worker strikes boost labor; CT Campaign to secure mail-in ballots
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: 01.27.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Senate impeachment trial & the constitution; Media bias against progressives in Democratic primary campaign; The collapse of Honduras causing immigrants to flee & Climate activism on trial
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: 12-09-19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the latest in the Trump impeachment inquiry; Trump cuts to 700,000 SNAP/Food Stamp recipients; White House-Congressional talks on NAFTA 2.O/USMCA; CT Common Cause legislative agenda
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: 10.07.19: 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: 08.12.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the ongoing drive to strengthen gun laws; UN Report on the link between climate change and food security; organizing civil disobedience in the Trump era; Rose City ANTIFA confronts white supremacists
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: 06.03.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump administration lies re 2020 Census citizenship question; Why Mueller must testify before Congress; Trump's new Mexico tariffs, NAFTA 2.0; Reviving the U.S. peace movement
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: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's success in confirming record number of extreme right federal judges; Gerald Horne on race in America; socialism vs. capitalism and inequality in the U.S. today; Yale student divestment campaign
Tag: 03.18.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses CT Supreme Court ruling on Sandy Hook lawsuit against gunmaker; Congress poised to invoke War Powers Act against Yemen War; US Delegation to Iran see impact of Trump Sanctions; CT Immigration Rights Bills
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: 12.17.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the UN Climate Summit w US elected officials; Disturbing history of Trump's AG Nominee William Barr; Groundbreaking Senate vote against Yemen War & Green New Deal financing via Public Banks
Tag: 11.26.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the new Democratic Congress & Medicare4All; General Motors' Layoff Announcement; US tear gasses immigrants at Mexico border; List of 15 articles of impeachment for Trump
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Tag: 11.12.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses voter suppression in the 2018 midterm election; Protecting the Mueller probe after Trump fires AG Jeff Sessions; a progressive agenda for the Democratic House & Connecticut election results
Tag: 07-02-18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Supreme Court's ruling in Trump Muslim ban case; The coming Senate debate/vote to replace Justice Kennedy; Supreme Court "Janus" ruling damaging public sector unions & Averting a new US-Russia Cold War
Tag: 05.21.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's "War Cabinet" & the threat of new US conflicts; Campaign to preserve Net Neutrality; Venezuela's controversial presidential election; Unions oppose CT community college consolidation plan
Tag: 07.17.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses GOP voter suppression tactics; FEC complaint filed on Trump Jr. Russia meeting; Consequences of GOP Senate Healthcare legislation & Refuse Fascism says Trump poses unique threat to democracy
Tag: 06.26.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses consequences of GOP healthcare bill; Disability Rights Activists Protest Trumpcare; Corporate dominance of US politics fuels rising inequality & CT Indivisible group resists Trump agenda
Tag: 06.12.17 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses investigations into multiple Trump scandals; People's Summit and the Progressive Agenda; Jeremy Corbyn & Labor Party's unexpected UK election gains; Chris Hedges on Current US Political Crisis
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: 04.24.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump Justice Dept. plans to indict WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange; Progressive Democrats mobilize to win special elections; Results of the French election & a speech by BDS founder Omar Barghouti
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: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the GOP Healthcare Failure; Progressives campaign to block Gorsuch SCOTUS nomination; Over 10,000 Women sign-up to run for public office; Palestinian Dance-Rap Groups Tours US and CT
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: 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: 02.29.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the battle of Obama's SCOTUS nomination; the shaky ceasse-fire in the Syrian civil war; Trump's racism & hate groups & Newtown group's gun control advocacy
Tag: 02.15.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the battle to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia; the escalating arms race between the US & Russia; Analysis of Venezuela's economic & political crisis & report on the CT Green Party