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Tag: 12.02.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Goals of the UN Climate Summit in Madrid; the Crisis in U.S. political parties; Media attacks on progressive Democratic candidates; Assessing CT Governor Ned Lamont's climate and energy agenda
Tag: 09.11.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the future of the Democratic Party; The Trump-GOP tax cut agenda; The US role in the 2009 coup in Honduras & The Sept. 11, 1973 Chile Coup 44 years later
Tag: 04.03.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's repeal of Obama climate change regulations and Internet privacy rules; US military escalation in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan & Yemen and New If Not Now movement protests US-Israel policy on Palestine
Tag: 03.13.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses 24 million who will lose health insurance with TrumpCare; Trump EPA head doubles down on climate change denial; L.A. Kauffman on her new book, "Direct Action;" Bush-Era Surveillance Prgrm Contradictions
Tag: 01.09.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Trump agenda & the future of the Democratic party; Israeli policy toward Palestinians; Report from a delegation to Syria & Preview of planned protests at Trump inauguration in Washington, D.C.
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the US decision not to veto a UN resolution against Israel's illegal settlements; Viking Economics egalitarian societies in Scandinavian nations; civil liberties under Trump; US Dept of Arts and Culture activism
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: 11.21.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses progressive organizing under the coming Trump regime; Opposition rising to Trump proposed Muslim ban & registry; the issue of inequality in the 2016 election & Greg Palast on how the election was stolen
Tag: 11.14.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris assesses reasons why Hillary Clinton lost the election; How progressive activists are working to re-shape the Democratic Party; Campaign to nullify anti-democratic effect of the Electoral College; listener calls
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: 10.17.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the US election and fears of a new cold war with Russia; a post-election strategy for the U.S. progressive movement; Haiti disaster after Hurricane Matthew & Art & climate change in New Haven, CT
Tag: 10.03.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Gary Johnson's libertarian ideology and funding; masculinity in the presidential election; Post-impeachment politics in Brazil & Colombian voters reject proposed peace agreement
Tag: 09.19.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the campaign to win Edward Snowden a pardon; opposition to the $66 Billion Monsanto-Bayer merger; the banks financing the Dakota Access Pipeline & CT's landmark court case on equal education funding
Tag: 08.29.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the "Alt Right" movement & the Trump campaign; the tragic ongoing Syrian civil war; investigation into election 2016 vote theft & the campaign to stop a proposed UI CT electric rate hike
Tag: 08.15.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Hillary Clinton's embrace of Neoconservative supporters; Trump attendance at extremist anti-gay Orlando event, Montreal's World Social Forum; CT Working Families Party celebrates five primary victories
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses US nuclear policy on 71st anniversary of Japan A-bomb attack; the links between Saudi Arabia & 9/11; Financial exploitation of US prisoners; Venezuela's economic and political crisis
Tag: 08.01.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses economic inequality issues in the 2016 election; U.S. policy re: Honduras & Brazil; UFE's popular economic education & Views of the DNC from a Bernie Sanders' delegate
Tag: 07.11.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses police-community relations in the wake of a week of violence; Afghanistan: America's longest war; the UK Chilcot report on Britain's role in Iraq War; the deal to close Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant
Tag: 06-20-16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Orlando massacre & hate crimes targeting LGBTQ community; the campaign for gun control laws; Court victory for net neutrality & the SMART ALEC affordable housing initiative
Tag: 05.30.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the global movements confronting the causes of economic inequality; U.S. drone wars; The extremist appointed Israeli Defense minister & CT budget cuts & plan to privatize group homes for the disabled
Tag: 05.09.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses GOP candidate Donald Trump, Racism and Class; Growing opposition to the TTIP free trade treaty; The murder of Berta Caceres & US aid to Honduras & CT's budget crisis & imminent cuts to social services
Tag: 04.18.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the ACLU's lawsuit to get U.S. torture documents; the Next System's nationwide teach-ins; Puerto Rico's debt crisis & the new French "Staying Up All Night" anti-austerity movement
Tag: 04.04.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the successes of the Fight For $15 movement; Brazilian corruption crisis or opposition party coup?; Climate Change & Geo-Engineering; CT budget crisis and threat of massive state-employee layoffs
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Pres. Obama's historic trip to Cuba; Aftermath of the Brussels terrorist attacks; Democracy Spring Wash. DC protest & Saudi intervention in Yemen's brutal civil war
Tag: 03.21.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses election 2016, the coming jobless economy, Donald Trump & fascism & the political parody: Billionaires & Oligarchs Opposed to Bernie Sanders
Tag: 03.07.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses voter suppression w journalist Greg Palast; the mission of the new group Bank Whistleblowers United; Political violence in Honduras & Opposition to hospital consolidation in Connecticut
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
Tag: 02.08.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the fight against the TPP trade agreement; Social Security in the election campaign; UN panel's ruling in Julian Assange case & Union representatives respond to CT Gov. Malloy's budget cut & layoff plan
Tag: 01.25.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Haiti's cancelled election; Flint, Michigan water crisis; Angela Davis on transformative justice; Gates Foundation funding of GMO PR campaign at Cornell University
Tag: 01.18.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Democratic candidate's debate on single payer health care; Excerpt of MLK Jr. speech on, "The Other America," Black Lives Matter protests on MLK holiday weekend & GE's move from CT to Boston/taxation
Tag: 01.11.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Bernie Sander's advocacy of breaking up U.S. big banks; the Sunni-Shiite Muslim divide; White House protest to close down Guantanamo detention camp; Iraq War Vet's visit back to Iraq & Afghanistan
Tag: 12.07.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the gun control debate in the wake of 2 recent US mass shooting incidents; Progress at the Paris climate summit; FDA approval of GMO salmon & Protest at US Guantanamo prison in Cuba
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: 11.09.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement; U.S. troops in Syria; Fight for $15 national day of action; Climate fast; Un-Koch My Campus national campaign
Tag: 11.02.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Syria's civil war; Bernie Sanders' advocacy of democratic socialism; New Speaker of the House Paul Ryan's politics; Labor struggle at Danbury & New Milford CT hospitals
Tag: 10.25.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses secret documents re: the US drone warfare program; Exxon's deception on climate change; Alabama voter suppression exposed & deficiencies in Haiti's 10-25-15 national election
Tag: 09.14.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Iran nuclear agreement; DOJ changes on prosecuting corporate crime; Prosecution of Guatemalan president & Connecticut initiatives on climate change
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses false crisis of the Social Security disability fund; Afghanistan War; Unions and cooperatives & challenges to Northeast natural gas pipeline project