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: 01.08.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Keeping Insurrectionist Trump off 2024 Ballot; Protesters Confront Argentina's Extremist President Javier Milei; South Africa Accuses Israel of Genocide in Gaza; Threat of Wider Middle East War Looms |
Tag: 10.23.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the humanitarian emergency in Gaza; Danger of a wider Middle East War; DOJ must investigate GOP theft of election machine software; Targeting Harvard pro-Palestinian student activists |
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: 09.11.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Sept 11th terrorist attack & US War on Terror; Reporter goes undercover in US rightwing extremist movements; RICO Indictment of 61 StopCopCity Activists; March to End Fossil Fuels 9-17 NYC |
Tag: 08.14.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses US Role in Ousting Pakistan's Prime Minister; US Media Repeating Same Mistakes Covering Trump 24 Campaign; Data Collection Crucial as New COVID Wave Looms; March to End Fossil Fuels 9-17-23 in NYC |
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: 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: 01.30.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the movement of the "Doomsday Clock" to 90 sec. to midnight; Understanding the political crisis in Peru; New book details the threat of White Christian Nationalism; CT Darwin Day event celebrates science |
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: 01.09.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the 2nd anniv of Jan. 6th insurrection & ongoing threats to democracy; Book banning across America; Climate crisis reparations for future generations; Responding toIsrael's new far right government |
Tag: 09.19.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the threat to democracy in the Supreme Court Moore v. Harper case; Wall St. is funding the GOP's culture war; 17 states criminalize fossil fuel protests; Climate activists protest Manchin-Senate deal |
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: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Christian nationalism & GOP embrace of January 6th insurrection violence; Reforming US electoral college system; Election of Colombia's 1st leftist president; Climate activists protest at Travelers golf tourney |
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 07.12.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the assassination of Haitian President Moise; Establishing a National Infrastructure Bank; US appeals UK ruling against Julian Assange extradition & Demand to investigate New Haven racial slur incident |
Tag: 06.28.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris talks about voter suppression with West Virginia activists; Continuing voter purges in Georgia; Former Rep. Dennis Kucinich on his early career battles in Cleveland & Chileans now working on a new constitution |
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: 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: 10.19.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses dark money influencing direction of Supreme Court; Pres. Trump's mental health status; Voter suppression in Indian Country; CT Working Families Party election agenda, Ted Glick's Defeat Trump 30-day fast |
Tag: 09.28.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the police killing of Breonna Taylor; Leak of Trump's income taxes; The value of international observers in US 2020 Election; "The Connecticut Man Who Led a Plot to Overthrow Franklin Roosevelt" |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Georgia's primary election disaster; Progress Since 1992's L.A. Rebellion; Rev. Dr. William Barber's Sermon on Reconstruction; In current protests media focus on race but not class |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses: Police killing of George Floyd that triggered militant protests; President Trump's culpability for 100k COVID19 deaths; Trump attempts to punish Twitter; CT protest against gas power plant; Black Panther podcast |
Tag: 01.20.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses: Nationwide protests call for Trump's removal from office; The continuing campaign to ratify the ERA to the US Constitution; What a Sanders presidency would look like & Growing political crisis in Haiti |
Tag: 10.28.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses new public banking legislation in California; Latin America protests austerity & inequality; Deciphering new phase of Syrian war; New report documents FBI surveillance of progressive groups |
Tag: 06.03.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump administration lies re 2020 Census citizenship question; Why Mueller must testify before Congress; Trump's new Mexico tariffs, NAFTA 2.0; Reviving the U.S. peace movement |
Tag: 12.10.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the unsanitized history of the late G.H.W. Bush; Fossil fuel & debt protest at Yale; RIP Medical Debt project & AMLO Mexico's new progressive President |
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Tag: Interview: Yale Law School opposition to Brett Kavanaugh |
Tag: 09.10.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the new book, "How to Read a Protest;" Trump's SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh; US complicity in the war in Yemen; Singer songwriter David Rovic's new history podcast project |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris presents an excerpt of Timothy Snyder talk on tyranny; & discusses the ascent of the Democratic Socialists of America; Connecticut primary election results and President Trump's now cancelled military parade |
Tag: 07.23.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's attempt to dismantle the CFPB; the launch of a new Medicare4All Caucus in the House; Anti-Fascist protest planned in Wash DC 8-12-18 & Gandhi Peace Awards, Anti-blockade Flotilla sails to Gaza |
Tag: 05.14.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Palestinians killed by Israel at Gaza border; Trump's Lawyer's Links w Corporate & Russian 'kickbacks'; Peace groups mobilizing to oppose future Trump Iran war; Union calls for boycott of Stamford Hilton |
Tag: 04.09.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Israeli snipers killing of 30 Palestinian protesters; Universal Basic Income; Trump trade policies & NAFTA negotiations; Sinclair TV propaganda and merger proposal |
Tag: 02.26.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the ongoing campaign to rein in gun violence; Congress urged to reverse FCC Net Neutrality Repeal; Antifa protests Wash., DC right wing gathering; Coalition Calls on Yale to Cancel its Puerto Rican Debt |
Tag: 12.11.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses fallout from Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital; Trump proposal to establish a private spy agency; Post-Election crisis in Honduras; Yale University fossil fuel divestment campaign |
Tag: 08.21.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump and nuclear war, Charlottesville racist violence; DOJ demand for data on visitors to anti-Trump website; America's new fascist threat & CT anti-racist organizing |
Tag: 06.26.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses consequences of GOP healthcare bill; Disability Rights Activists Protest Trumpcare; Corporate dominance of US politics fuels rising inequality & CT Indivisible group resists Trump agenda |
Tag: 06.05.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the consequences of Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord; California proposed move to single payer healthcare; Causes of the current crisis in Brazil & Sustaining the Trump Resistance movement |
Tag: 05.01.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris assesses Trump's "tax reform" proposal; Trump abets corporate takeover of federal govt apparatus; Women peacemakers call for talks w North Korea; Action Together CT mobilizes opposition to Trump agenda |
Tag: 01.30.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the explosion of anti-Trump protests nationwide; Challenging the constitutionality of Trump's Muslim Ban; Wash., DC mass arrests of inauguration protesters; Unions protest Trump Immigration policies |
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: 01.16.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses charges that Russia hacked the US election; Fighting back against voter suppression in the 2016 election; Self-defense in the Trump era; Protests planned for the Trump inauguration in Washington & locally |
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: 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: 07.25.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses protests at Democratic & GOP conventions; Corporate money and its role in major US political parties; the Christian right influence in the Republican party & Sanders supporters anger over Clinton VP pick |
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: 02.22.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the New York Times coverage of single payer health care; Apple vs. FBI on encryption; Plan for civil disobedience in Washington, DC this spring & Bridgeport CT coal plant conversion to natural gas |
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: 01.04.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses an important Supreme Court case, Jan. 2016, that could weaken labor unions; police violence, accountability and the Black Lives Matter movement; Haiti's cancelled presidential election & listener calls |
Tag: 12.21.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses anti-Muslim hate crimes in U.S., Critique of big Green NGOs at Paris climate talks; New book explores economic inequality & Antiracist activism on university campuses |
Tag: 11.16.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Paris terrorist attacks, the current, deteriorating situation in Afghanistan and the recent "Our Generation Our Choice" protest actions in Washington, D.C. |
Tag: 09.07.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses organizing around the fight for a $15 minimum wage; the history & future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Resignation of Guatemala's president & the campaign to close the Indian Point nuclear plant |
Tag: 08.03.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses opposition to oil drilling in the Arctic; Expansion of Medicare for all; Lawsuit launched against EPA for approval of Nanotechnology pesticide & CT NAACP call for an investigation into death of Abe Dabela |