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Tag: 10.07.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the US media's coverage of Israel's Gaza war; Corporate media 'sanewashing' Trump's cognitive decline; Hurricane Helene, climate change & holding Big Oil accountable; Mexico's first female president
Tag: 09.23.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the escalating war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon; Trump's abortion ban is literally killing women; US Poverty rose when federal safety net programs expired; Billy Bragg on politics and hope
Tag: 09.09.24: Counterpoint Host Scott Harris discusses Mark Green's new book The Inflection Election; University repression of student Gaza war protests; Our Climate Future: Apocalypse or Utopia Portland Maine city council divests from Israel
Tag: 09.02.24 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the ongoing Gaza war & massive Israel protests; Coalition demands media cover threat to democracy; Author asks do we live to work, or work or live?; CT cafe supports inclusion, tolerance & racial justice
Tag: 08.12.24 Counterpoint host Scott Harris: Tim Walz's Progressive MN Legislative Record; Kamala can Neutralize SCOTUS Presidential Immunity Ruling; To End Ukraine War US & Russia Must Talk; Project 2025's Blueprint for Environment & Climate Catastrophe
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: 07.15.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris on GOP attempts to use failed assassination to shut down criticism of Trump; Left victory in French elections offers lessons to US; Poll finds Americans reject Project 2025; Voters of Tomorrow target youth vote
Tag: 07.08.24 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses dangerous SCOTUS ruling on presidential immunity; Concerned Democrats hesitate to replace Joe Biden; Jewish Biden Adm staff resigns in protest over US Gaza policy; Trump contagion spreads in US electorate
Tag: 07.01.24 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Julian Assange's release from prison & impact of plea deal; Calls for Joe Biden to step aside & find a new candidate; Threat of wider war between Israel & Hezbollah; Trump memos expose deep corruption
Tag: 05.20.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses student's moral outrage at US complicity in Israel's Gaza war; Christian right take over of Texas school boards; Walk For Gaza CT; Veterans For Peace 700 Mile Peace Walk 2024
Tag: 04.29.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the weaponization of antisemitism to attack student Gaza protesters; Israel sells occupied Palestinian land in US and Canada; Supreme Court hears case that could criminalize homelessness and poverty
Tag: 04.22.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses a European court victory to address climate change; Israel Iran conflict and ongoing carnage in Gaza; Haiti crisis and international intervention; CT 350.org local climate activism and upcoming events
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: 03.25.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Passage of UN Gaza ceasefire resolution; Assessing Biden's domestic policy agenda; Rightwing extremist network financed Moms For Liberty; CT legislation proposes expanding paid sick leave law
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: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Corporate media coverage of Election 2024; Humanitarian crisis & starvation in Gaza; Addressing media bias in reporting on Gaza & Palestine; CT bill supports local news outlets w state ad revenue
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses new information in the assassination Malcolm X; A vision for a Palestinian-Israel confederated state; Julian Assange battles to stop UK extradition to US; Biden considers embracing Trump immigration policies
Tag: 02.19.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses US role in Ukraine & Gaza wars; Vets for Peace letter to Biden Adm demanding end to US weapons sent to Israel; Engage or Not in 2024 presidential election? New Haven Community Conversations on Gaza War
Tag: 01.29.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Intl Court of Justice order against Israel in Gaza War; Accountability for Boeing's safety issues; Protests erupt against extremist Argentine president Javier Milei; Media normalizes Trump's Fascism
Tag: 01.22.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Israel's Bloody ongoing war in Gaza; White Christian Nationalists Embrace of Trump; Supreme Court Poised to Gut Federal Regulations; 3 Migrants Drowned as Texas Tries to Enforce its own Border Rules
Tag: 12.18.23 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Biden's Power to Stop Israeli Carnage in Gaza; Effective Challenge to America's Undemocratic Electoral College; Physician Relates the Horror her Gamily Faces in Gaza; New book Examines Class, Race & Gender
Tag: 12.11.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's fascist candidacy; Too little too late at the COP28 Climate Summit; Lawsuits to keep Trump off Oregon's 2024 ballot; Antisemitism, Islamophobia & protecting free speech on campus
Tag: 12.04.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Dark Legacy of Henry Kissinger; GOP's Latest Threat to Social Security & Medicare; Biden Pays Price for Embrace of Israel's Deadly Gaza Attack; Prospects for Progress on Climate Crisis at COP 28
Tag: 11.20.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Israel's war in Gaza and mass killing of Palestinians with Ralph Nader; The Biden-Xi Jinping meeting & US China relations; Israel's spy network on US college campuses & the new CT chapter of Third Act
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: 11.06.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses root causes of the Israel Hamas war, Jewish Voice for Peace demand for a ceasefire in Gaza; UAW strike ends with historic agreement with Big 3 automakers; Antisemitic groups exploit Middle East conflict
Tag: 09.25.23: Mike Merli (fill-in for Counterpoint with Scott Harris) discusses Global Fossil Fuel Addiction Feeding the Ukraine War; Campaign to End Wrongful Convictions in CT; Protests Greet Netanyahu as he visits the U.S.
Tag: 08.28.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses New report on widening gap between CEO and worker pay; Confronting GOP's embrace of political violence; Guatemala elects anti-corruption activist; CT rallies opposition to health insurance rate hike
Tag: 07.31.23 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses concern that Joe Biden is a risky candidate in 2024; Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in the crosshairs of war; Fossil fuel corps must pay for climate crisis; New Haven's 'Interfaith Service Day'
Tag: 07.10.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Opposition to Biden's transfer of cluster bombs to Ukraine; Biden nominates death squad ally to US diplomacy panel; Biden won't reform 'Not Normal' SCOTUS; CT legislature fails to address climate crisis
Tag: 07.03.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Russia Rebellion & Opening for Peace Talks; SCOTUS Ignores Precedent to Overturn Affirmative Action; US Repression IWW Union Offers Lessons for Today's Labor Activists; SCOTUS Blocks Student Debt Relief
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: 05.22.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses: Can Chinese Diplomacy Help End Russia-Ukraine War; The Threat of AI & Need for Regulation; DOJ Ignores Trump Scheme to Steal Election Software; Historic Boat Sails Again to Demand Nuclear Abolition
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: 04.03.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump indictment & threat of domestic terrorism; Israel faces two major crises; In These Times' director on the future of progressive media; Opponents Explain their opposition to CT aid in dying bill
Tag: 03.20.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris Discusses Bank Failures & the Need to Toughen Regulation; Biden Breaks Pledge Not to Permit New Oil Drilling on Federal Lands; Echoes of US Iraq Invasion in Russia's Ukraine War; Climate Activists Target US Banks
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: 02.27.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Russia's Suspension of Nuclear Arms Treaty; Protests Call for Diplomacy to End Ukraine War; Toxic Railroad Derailments Demands Govt Regulation; CT Bill provides Healthcare for Undocumented Immigrants
Tag: 02.13.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Chinese balloon & rising US-China tensions; US Media ignores report concluding US blew up Nord Stream pipeline; Group works to stop Biden 2024 re-election run; CT's Carbon Free & Healthy School Act
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: 12.26.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Jan 6 Comm Report & accountability; Ending the war in Ukraine; Myths about fusion power; Biden's new policy addressing homelessness
Tag: 12.19.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre & ongoing campaign to end gun violence; UK's public sector labor strikes; GOP threat to cut Social Security, Medicare & Critique of Biden's US-Africa Leaders Summit
Tag: 12.05.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Israel's dangerous new ultranationalist government; the wider impact of Elon Musk's devolution of Twitter; Venezuela government & opposition start new new talks; Congress blocks Railroad workers strike
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: 10.03.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the dangerous new phase in the Ukraine War; Deadly hurricanes and climate change; Polls got it wrong in 1st round of Brazil election; Resisting culture war book bans & classroom censorship in CT schools
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: 08.15.22: 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: 07.25.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Will DOJ prosecute Donald Trump for his attempted coup?; Biden administration mishandling the ongoing battle against COVID; Biden Must take action on climate crisis; New film documentary on WPKN Radio
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: 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: 06.13.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the 6-18-22 Poor People's March; Jan. 6th House investigation hearings; Conservative Democrat's PAC works to defeat progressive candidates; US complicity in horrific Yemen War
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: 04.25.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the forgotten Yemen War; GOP plot to steal the next election; UK moves to extradite Julian Assange to the US threatening press freedom, Justice for Mubarak campaign wins indictment of CT State Trooper
Tag: 04.18.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Double standards in international law and human rights exposed by Russia's war in Ukraine; Combating GOP classroom censorship; Debt Collective demands Biden cancel student debt; Amazon workers union win
Tag: 04.11.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Big Oil profiteering amid war in Ukraine; Children really worried about the climate crisis; Covid racial disparities made white US residents less supportive of public health measures; Student debt crisis
Tag: 04.04.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Ukraine conflict & danger or nuclear war; DOJ Inaction on Trump coup attempt condemned; Biden proposes minimum tax on billionaires; Union wins historic organizing drive at Amazon
Tag: 03.28.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses chances for peace talks in Ukraine, GOP race-baiting SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, Humanitarian crisis in Yemen's War, The fight for affordable housing in Connecticut
Tag: 03.21.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Ukraine war peace talks; COVID vaccine apartheid continues; Ukraine war & the threat of nuclear war; Campaign to pass CT law providing undocumented immigrants access to healthcare
Tag: 03.14.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Ukraine War & dangers of enforcing a no fly zone; Amid Ukraine war proposing Defense Production Act for renewables; Millions of Medicaid recipients may lose benefits; Noam Chomsky on Ukraine crisis
Tag: 03.07.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Ukraine war and the urgent need for nuclear de-escalation; Vladimir Putin's goal in Ukraine and impact of Russian sanctions; Starbucks union drive catches fire; Growing US racial wealth gap
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: 02.21.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses how war can be averted in Ukraine, The danger of extremists inside Canada's 'Freedom Convoy,' A new political and social profile of Vermont; Understanding the end of slavery celebrated on Juneteenth
Tag: 02.14.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the US hypocrisy re: International law; Critical Race Theory & the GOP culture war; Nord Stream 2 and the Ukraine crisis & Joe Rogan's Vaccine Disinformation Blowback
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: 01.31.22: 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: 01.17.22: 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: 12.27.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Joe Manchin's opposition to Biden's Build Back Better plan; Chile's historic presidential election; Book examines the 'privatization of everything'; How dark money bought a Supreme Court seat
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: 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: 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: 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: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Youth climate activists in Glasgow demand more; Postmaster General Louis DeJoy must go; Addressing the homelessness crisis in the US; Broadband funds in infrastructure plan won't end the digital divide
Tag: 11.01.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses troubling signs from the January 6th Investigation; urgent action required to vaccinate the world; Trump and his fascist movement examines; Poor People's Campaign action to protect Biden's social programs
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Congressional negotiations on Pres. Biden's tax proposals; Efforts to protect climate provisions in the Build Back Better plan; The need to decolonize wealth; Efforts to establish a national infrastructure bank
Tag: 10.04.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Congressional showdown over infrastructure bills; DeJoy slow down of U.S. mail; Exposed CIA plot to kidnap or kill Julian Assange; Fox News' Tucker Carlson parrots racist 'replacement theory'
Tag: 09.20.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's post-Jan 6th nuclear war threat; Biden creates military alliance to counter China; Occupy Wall Street Lessons Learned 10 Years Later & CT Working Families Bridgeport City Council candidates win
Tag: 09.13.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the demand for classified 9/11 files re Saudi Arabia involvement; BTL 9/11/2001 Re-Broadcast; Republican Party threat to democracy; Colombia's protest movement against inequality, poverty and corruption
Tag: 08.23.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Afghan-American community's demands to Joe Biden; Holding politicians accountable for COVID malpractice; Aiding Haiti in this moment of crisis; Working Families Party gears up for Bridgeport city election
Tag: 08.02.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Climate change measures in the infrastructure bills; Expiration of federal eviction moratorium; Ohio's special primary election; National nurses union on CDC COVID precaution guidance
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: 06.21.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Biden-Putin summit meeting; Fascism's Global Spread; the campaign to pass "For The People Act" in the U.S. Senate & New Connecticut zoning reform legislation
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the apparent ouster of Israeli PM Netanyahu; White Supremacy & Republicans vs. Democracy; The Future of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid; New Day Pacifica campaign working to save Pacifica Radio network
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: 05.24.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses prospects for lasting peace in Israel-Palestine; Countering the GOP threat to US democracy; Opposition to CDC's relaxation of COVID Precautions; Push to expand voting rights in Connecticut
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: 05.10.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Joe Biden's proposals to tax the rich; Stopping tax avoidance by the wealthiest; CIA plot to kill Raul Castro revealed & Desegregate CT pushes statewide zoning reform bill
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: 04.05.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Hedge Funds and the Green New Deal; Boot Camps for Destroying Democracy; Petition Drive to Recall Georgia Governor Kemp; "Unrig Bridgeport" campaign to end corruption, restore democracy
Tag: 03.29.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses immigration and the 'Border Industrial Complex;' Biden adm hardline policies toward Russia and China; GOP voter suppression in Georgia & across the US & Grassroots vaccination campaign in Fairhaven, CT
Tag: 03.22.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the mass shooting in Atlanta & gun safety legislation; Charges dropped against former Brazilian President Lula; Biden administration policy toward China; Ripple Effect Artists plays & film projects
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: 02.08.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Ben & Jerry's campaign on ending police qualified immunity; Trump impeachment, GOP & democracy; Biden foreign policy & Re-prioritizing CT state budget and taxes
Tag: 02.01.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses President Biden's climate change policies; Trump's impeachment trial that begins on Feb. 9th; Tracking the coronavirus pandemic and the danger of variant strains; US poverty causes & policy solutions
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: 12.14.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the urgent need for equitable distribution of coronavirus vaccines; Trump-GOP Sedition Continues Attempted Election Coup; Ranked Choice Voting Gains in Election 2020; Protest Demands Yale Pay Fair Taxes
Tag: 11.30.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump lawbreaking and lies; President-elect Biden's Cabinet choices; Climate issues and Biden's campaign pledges; The assassination of Iran's top nuclear scientist and its consequences
Tag: 11.23.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's attack on the U.S. Constitution; Repairing our broken system of checks and balances; Assessing the threat of Trump-GOP fascism/authoritarianism & CCAG campaigns for CT public healthcare option
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: 11.11.20: 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: 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: 09.14.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the coalition formed to protect the election results; Refugees created by US Post-9/11 wars; Warnings to progressives of a 2nd Trump election victory; Normalization of Israel, UAE, Bahrain relations
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: 07.13.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's push to reopen schools; US economic system's failure to deal with COVID pandemic; Biden-Sanders Task Force tackles climate change; Author Greg Palast on his new book, "How Trump Stole 2020."
Tag: 03.23.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Coronavirus & insurance industry profits; Senators accused of insider trading; COVID-19 devastates the world economy; Biden vs. Biden on how to attack coronavirus & Occupied Palestine & the pandemic
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: 02.10.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's impeachment acquittal & Democratic primary campaign; The power of money in US politics; House passage of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act & Decrying conditions at New Haven, CT's jail
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