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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: 04.01.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the GOP attack on reproductive rights, Israel propaganda targets US journalists; CT Dem Primary Uncommitted campaign; Earth Day hearing on CitiGroup environmental racism
Tag: 02.12.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Israel's ongoing carnage in Gaza war; SCOTUS hearing on Colorado's removal of Trump from state ballot; Questions on CT pension fund investment in Israel; New book on historic fight for reproductive rights
Tag: 01.15.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Why CNN Reports are Subject to Israeli Censorship; Trump's Fascist Threat to Democracy Downplayed by US Media; Courts Uphold Extremist Abortion Laws Endangering Lives; MLK's Radical Message Whitewashed
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses American Jews' relationship with Israel; Ohio voters pass abortion access referendum; Artificial Intelligence: dangers and opportunities; Bridgeport CT mayoral election marred by ballot fraud
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: 06.26.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses One Year After Roe v. Wade Overturned; US & Iran Talk to Ease Tensions; Without Accountability Trump Contagion Continues to Infect the Nation; Billionaire Paul Singer's Lavish Gifts to Justice Alito
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Texas judge's ruling banning an abortion drug; Backlash against the GOP's extremist agenda; CT workers equity agenda lobby day in Hartford; Climate Defiance plan to blockade White House Correspondents Dinner
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump GOP threat to extinguish democracy; Ongoing campaign works to ratify Equal Rights Amendment; Late journalist Robert Parry broke story of Reagan's Oct. Surprise in 1991; Debate over CT prison commutations
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: 01.23.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Oxfam's new report on rising inequality; Resistance to Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade; Supreme Court poised to undermine workers right to strike; Urgent need for reform of US immigration & asylum
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: 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: 07.18.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Pres. Biden's recent Middle East trip; Christian extremist policies imposed across the country; Big Oil profiteering boosts gas prices; AIPAC funds campaigns against progressive candidates
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 the extremist rulings of the Supreme Court, New book celebrates tween's curiosity & imagination; Universal healthcare could have prevented 300,000+ COVID deaths in US; Overturning Roe: women now 2nd class citizens
Tag: 05.23.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses "replacement theory" and the GOP fascist threat to democracy; Abortion fight moves to the states; GOP & Democrats primary election winners/losers; Corporate price gouging exploits inflation
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses right wing targeting pro-choice protesters for arrest; "100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting;" The killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh; Son of dictator wins Philippine election
Tag: 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
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: 12.13.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses NATO's role in Russia-Ukraine tensions; After outlawing abortion what's the Christian right's next target?; Vaccine apartheid creates dangerous COVID variants; UK court OKs Julian Assange US extradition
Tag: 12.06.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Mississippi's abortion law being considered by the Supreme Court; Opposition to a new program that could privatize Medicare; Progressive candidate wins Honduras election; Venezuela's 11/21 election
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: 05.20.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the arrest of 4 occupiers in Venezuela's US Embassy; The risk of US war with Iran; Why new abortion restrictions disproportionately impact women of color & Public option health insurance proposed for CT
Tag: 07.09.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's Supreme Court nominee; Grassroots push to reform the Democratic Party; Trump EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's resignation; Medicare For All Town Hall meeting in CT
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: 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: 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: 10.24.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses issues in the 2016 election campaign including the future of Social Security; What's at stake for the country with future appointments made to SCOTUS; California's Proposition 61 & Stealing US elections
Tag: 11.30.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses what's at stake at the Paris climate summit; Consequences of Turkey's shooting down of a Russian fighter jet over Syria; Planned Parenthood clinic attack & Excerpt of Bernie Sanders talk on socialism
Tag: 10.05.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses America's broken economic and political systems; Russia's intervention in Syria's civil war; the GOP campaign to defund Planned Parenthood & talks by Eric Foner & Ralph Nader at Tort Law Museum opening