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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: 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: 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: 10-09-23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Hamas brutal attack on Israel; Trump-GOP incitement of violence; Role of sanctions in US southern border crisis; Azerbaijani ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh
Tag: 09.04.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Dangers of Trump-GOP cult; Oxfam's new Best States to Work report; Health hazards of Japan's dump of radioactive water in Pacific; Excerpt of Bernie Sanders "The State of America's Working" speech
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: 06.12.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses How to reduce rising US-China tensions; Debt ceiling deal cruelly cuts social program, rewards the rich; GOP threatens violence after Trump's federal indictment; Debt ceiling deal guts climate regulation
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: 05.15.23: 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: 03.13.23: 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: 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: 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: 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: 10.17.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Extreme US wealth inequality & policy remedies; House January 6th Comm Hearing & waiting for accountability for Trump; GOP policies would weaken or end Social Security, Medicare; Behind Haiti's crisis
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: 06.06.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Stopping disinformation ahead of 2022 midterm election, UnFoxMyCableBox campaign targets Fox News toxic rhetoric, Questioning why Fed attacks wages to stop inflation; Tracking pipelines & US oil wars
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: 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: 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: 01.10.22: 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: 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: 09.27.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses legislation to protect democracy from GOP attack; Global vaccination shortfall crisis; Activists Pressure Biden on Climate Action & Brutalization of Haitian refugees at US southern border
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: 08.30.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the movement to protect US democracy; Afghanistan and war profiteering; Opposition to Biden nomination of Rahm Emanuel as US ambassador to Japan; Chevron's prosecution of Steven Donziger
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: 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: 04.19.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the crisis in US policing & the Derek Chauvin trial; Biden urged to implement global vaccine manufacturing program; Unions push for passage of PRO Act & Bill would divert missile funds to Covid vaccine
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: 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: 01.25.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Joe Biden's proposals on immigration reform; Holding corporations accountable for supporting GOP insurrection; What's next for pro-Trump militia groups; Schools, Race and Housing in Connecticut
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: 10.19.20: 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: 10-12-20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the threat of right wing extremist violence during the Nov. 3rd election; Bolivia's 10-18-20 election; Trump, COVID and the nuclear football and the call for opening the presidential debates
Tag: 10.05.20 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the threat of white supremacist violence in the 2020 election; the deepening US economic crisis; Supreme Court confirmation battle & New WPKN programs
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: 09.21.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses concern re a pre-election conflict with Iran; Ruth Bader Ginsburg's legacy; Trump's war on Social Security; Protecting the November election; Trump's criminal sabotage of US pandemic response
Tag: 09.07.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the plight of low wage restaurant workers in the pandemic; Concern re: Trump rushing vaccine before the election; Militias & vigilante violence at BLM protests & Police abuse CT Senate Majority Leader
Tag: 08-31-20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses QAnon conspiracy theories and GOP support; Kenosha and Portland BLM Protests and deadly street violence; Will Trump seek foreign conflict to boost re-election?; Build The Wall arrests & Kris Kobach
Tag: 06.29.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Congressional legislative action on police violence; Dramatic rise in coronavirus cases nationwide; Black Rock's unregulated economic power and influence & Building a new People's Party
Tag: 06.22.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Opposition to GOP's advocacy of COVID19 corporate immunity; 5 ways to rebuild the US labor movement; Camden's dismantled Police Dept is no model for US; SCOTUS' landmark LGBTQ+ non-discrimination ruling
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: 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: 10.14.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Turkey's war on the Kurds in Northern Syria; "The Cult of Trump" author interview; Responding to Trump tweets armed militia groups threaten civil war; Trump exec order will erode Medicare benefits
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the new U.S.-Russia nuclear arms race; Bernie Sanders' groundbreaking workplace democracy proposal; Move to establish domestic terrorism statute open to FBI abuse & The fires burning down the Amazon rainforest
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's Mexico tariff "crisis"; The rise in hate crimes & right wing extremist violence; Nationwide Day of Action calling for Trump impeachment & CT's new law mandating 2k megawatts of wind power
Tag: 09.17.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses current NAFTA negotiations; Labor resists Philippines Pres. Duterte's violence & repression; GOP voter suppression & intimidation in N.Carolina; Singer songwriter Jackson Browne accepts Gandhi Peace Award
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: 05.28.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump administration abuse of immigrant children; Prospects for US-North Korea summit meeting; the eruption of violence in Nicaragua & a preview of this year's Left Forum conference in NYC
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: 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: 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: 09.26.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses recent police shootings and protest; U.S. nuclear policy and the danger of nuclear war; Pro-sports athletes and Black Lives Matter protest & SURJ-CT organizes White people for racial justice
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: 06.06.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the link between climate change and conflicts; Colorado's single-payer healthcare ballot measure; Latin America's Left in turmoil & CT towns ban on toxic fracking waste
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