WPKN Archives: Counterpoint host Scott Harris presents Intl news coverage of leaked draft SCOTUS ruling overturning Roe v. Wade ruling; Views on danger of escalation between the US & Russian in Ukraine war; Coronavirus Criminals & Colombia's May 29th Election

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Original Aired:
Monday, May 9th, 2022
8:01PM to 9:32PM

Duration:
1 hour, 31 minutes

Posted:
Monday, May 9th, 2022 8:04PM

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Episode: Counterpoint host Scott Harris presents Intl news coverage of leaked draft SCOTUS ruling overturning Roe v. Wade ruling; Views on danger of escalation between the US & Russian in Ukraine war; Coronavirus Criminals & Colombia's May 29th Election

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) Excerpts of international news coverage from Germany, Australia and the UK of the leaked draft Supreme Court majority ruling that would overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion in the U.S.

2) George Beebe, former director of the CIA's Russia desk who advised then-VP Dick Cheney, who now serves as Director of Grand Strategy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He'll discuss the status of negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, and concern that efforts to end this conflict could be derailed by the Biden administration's recent announcement that one of their central goals is to weaken Russia's overall military capacity.

3) John Nichols, The Nation magazine's national affairs correspondent, talks about his newest book, "Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for Those Who Caused The Crisis," and the movement to investigate how the U.S. government sabotaged its response to the pandemic that cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans.

4) Alexander Main, Director of International Policy at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC. previews Colombia's May 29th first-round presidential election, and the significance that the frontrunner in the race is former leftist guerilla Gustavo Petro, who has served as mayor of Bogotá and is currently a senator, and his running mate, Afro-Colombian human-rights and environmental activist Francia Marquez, who if elected, would become Colombia's first black vice president.

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