COUNTERPOINT RADIO, 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) Diljeet Singh, President of Physicians for a National Health Program talks about America's deepening health care crisis -- with a focus on the expiring Affordable Care Act health insurance subsidies, and her work at PNHP advocating for the adoption in the U.S. of a universal, comprehensive, single-payer national health program.

2) Zimyl Adler, Senior Forest, Land & Climate Finance Policy Advocate with Friends of the Earth U.S. discusses what was, and was not accomplished at the UN COP30 Climate summit in Belem, Brazil, with a focus on FOE's views on the widening climate crisis, finance, and justice gaps blocking real climate progress.

3) Greg Palast, investigative journalist for The Guardian, New York Times best-selling author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, and filmmaker examine the recently released emails between Harvard University's Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein, the late convicted sex trafficker of minors — emails in which Summers, who is married, seeks advice from the convicted predator on how to seduce a young economist he was mentoring at Harvard.

4) Greg Mello, Executive Director of the Los Alamos Study Group discusses his views on Donald Trump's comment several weeks ago about his intention to resume nuclear weapons testing. He'll also talk about the danger many see in the expiration and/or violation of long standing nuclear weapons treaties with Russia, with the remaining New Start treaty expiring in February 2026.

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