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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: 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: 02.05.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Trump-GOP Threat to Democracy; Escalating Middle East Conflict linked to Israel's Brutal Gaza War; CT For All Launches 2024 Equity Agenda; Far Right Forces Generating Emergency at Southern Border
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: 01.15.24: 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: 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: 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: 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: 06.19.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the GOP's Latest Proposal to Cut Social Security & Medicare; Bernie Sanders on "The State of Working Class America;" BRICS Nations Displace G7 Now in Economic Decline; How to Keep Juneteenth Radical
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: 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: 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: 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: 09.26.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses major Iranian protests & nuclear talks; Russia's expected annexation of 15% of Ukraine; US corporate criminals escape accountability; Lawsuit filed against Ron DeSantis for exploiting asylum seekers
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 05.30.22: 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: 04.11.22: 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: The Men Behind the Guns (Cliff Furnald)
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 08.16.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Democrat's response to GOP gerrymandering; Donors financing republican legislators who voted to overturn the 2020 election; Consumerism, inequality & the climate crisis; Taliban takeover Afghanistan
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: 05.24.21: 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: 04.12.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses GOP voter suppression bills across the US; What's going on in Afghanistan, America's longest war; CT based-Sturm Ruger gun sales to Israel & Gun violence prevention activist's work with faith communities
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: 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: 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: 07.06.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Big Pharma price gouging in the age of COVID19; Understanding the context of the Russia Afghan bounty story; Israel's plan to Annex Palestinian West Bank; Desegregate Connecticut: a new campaign
Tag: 05.25.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the consequences of loosening stay-at-home restrictions; How the New York Times Enhances Trump's Propaganda; Code Pink's Memorial Day peace caravans; Campaign to protect CT prison inmates from coronavirus
Tag: 02.24.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Medicare For All and labor unions; Trump Afghan War peace talks with the Taliban; The crisis in U.S. journalism & The push for Community Choice Aggregation in CT
Tag: 02.03.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Senate sham impeachment trial of Donald Trump; Trump regime Middle East peace plan dead on arrival; House repeals AUMF, funds for unauthorized Iran war & Initiative to address CT's housing crisis
Tag: 01.13.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses War profiteering in the wake of Trump attack on Iranian General; The Democracy Rebellion PBS documentary; Peace movement mobilizes to Stop US-Iran War; Sunrise Movement organizes to impact 2020 election
Tag: 01.06.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the danger of US war with Iran after Trump assassinates top Iranian General; Peace groups mobilize to stop US war with Iran; the origin & ideology of Fascism & WaPo's colonial bias on the Afghan Papers
Tag: 11.11.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the apparent coup in Bolivia; the epidemic of suicide among returning U.S. war veterans; the victories in the Chicago teachers strike; Project Blitz: the Christian right network drafting state laws
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the formal launch of the House impeachment inquiry; Examining the US history of meddling in Ukraine; Understanding the root cause of Chile's massive protest movement & Assessing the fascist threat in the Trump era
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: 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: 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
Tag: 09.16.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Afghan peace talks, Saudi oil field attack; Israel's election; Trump extremist fed judge nominee Steven Menashi & Green Party presidential candidate Howie Hawkins
Tag: 09.09.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Code Pink's effort to end US complicity in Yemen War; Overturning North Carolina's GOP gerrymandered districts; Trapped in the US Terrorist Watch List & Resisting massive voter purges in Ohio & Georgia
Tag: 07.15.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses immigrant humanitarian border crisis; Trump regime efforts to rig US elections; Youth led Global Climate Strike & Left-Right coalition passes amendment blocking funds for Trump war with Iran
Tag: Guest hosts Melinda Tuhus & Richard Hill discuss a public health care option for CT; the growing evidence of natural gas fracking health impacts; Trump Iran crisis moves US closer to war & Trump detention of children shameless violation of human rights
Tag: 06.17.19 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the escalating U.S.-Iran crisis; the Poor People's Campaign & the 2020 election; Opposition to the T-Mobile-Sprint merger & Protests in Haiti demanding the resignation of Pres. Jovenel Moise
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: 05.27.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Espionage Act indictment of Julian Assange; Trump confrontation w Iran could lead to war; UN Report warns of impending extinction of 1 million species & CT Paid Family Medical Leave Act moves forward
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: 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: 06.11.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's violation of Iran nuclear agreement & current talks w North Korea; The Commonbound conference; Mexico's July 1st election & Ceasefire in Afghanistan
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: 05.21.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's "War Cabinet" & the threat of new US conflicts; Campaign to preserve Net Neutrality; Venezuela's controversial presidential election; Unions oppose CT community college consolidation plan
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: 04.16.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Pres.Trump's decision to launch airstrikes against Syria; the GOP plan to cut Social Security, Medicare; Youth activism in the age of Trump & MIT Student Day of Action in Boston
Tag: 03.26.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Cambridge Analytica & digital privacy; US role in Saudi Arabia's Yemen War; Dangerous War hawk John Bolton as Trump NSC Adviser; Speeches from Hartford, CT March for Our Lives rally
Tag: 03.12.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses prospects for the planned Trump-Kim Jong Un Summit; The hidden history of the 2nd Amendment & NRA; A teacher's view on schools, guns and safety & Connecticut moves to preserve Net Neutrality
Tag: 03.05.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the humanitarian crisis in Syria's Eastern Ghouta region; Bloody US-Afghan War entering 17th Year; New US-Russia nuclear arms race & Much at stake for labor in Janus v. AFSCME SCOTUS case
Tag: 02.05.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Nunes Trump-Russia memo; Important court rulings on challenges to gerrymandering; Legislation to prevent Trump pre-emptive attack on N.Korea & State-by-state campaign to sideline Electoral College
Tag: 11.13.17 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses growing US income inequality; US complicity in the ongoing brutal war in Yemen; Momentum builds to establish new city and state public banks & Drug Cos win w Trump nominee of Lilly CEO to be HHS Secretary
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's threats against N. Korea; the campaign to defeat the latest GOP attempt to repeal Obamacare; Assessing the new Burns-Novick PBS Vietnam documentary; Calls for Univ of New Haven to close Saudi Security pgrm
Tag: 08.28.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's Afghan war policy; Renegotiating NAFTA with Canada & Mexico; Texas floods, severe weather & climate change & New Haven Wells Fargo 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: 07.31.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump proposal to send a mercenary army to Afghanistan; Trump tax cuts would benefit the wealthiest; Congressional bill criminalizes support for Israel boycott; CT climate change assembly
Tag: 06.19.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses US Saudi Arabia role in Yemen's civil war; Charges brought against Michigan officials re: Flint water crisis; GOP attempts to repeal DoddFrank banking regulations; Green Party Pres candidate Jill Stein
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's "Election Integrity" commission; Trump's firing of FBI director poses threat to rule of law; Marine vet says Trump Afghan troop escalation bound to fail; Sustainable agriculture key to food sovereignty
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: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's threats against North Korea; the failure of US humanitarian military interventions; Public Banking advocated in New Jersey election & Israel blocks Palestinian BDS organizer from receiving US peace award
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: 02.06.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Judge Gorsuch, Trump's SCOTUS nomination; Local, national response to Trump 'Muslim Ban'; Trump Ratchets Up Tension with Iran & Public Education at Risk in fight over Trump's DeVos Nomination
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: WPKN's Election night coverage
Tag: The A-List Halloween Edition
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: 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: 07.04.16 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the need for a new U.S. peace movement after election 2016; Did recent SCOTUS ruling legalize corruption? New federal legislation addresses Puerto Rico's debt crisis & Hazards of nuclear power in space
Tag: 06-27-16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the economics of Britain's vote to leave the European Union; Breakthrough: Colombian civil war peace agreement; the People's Summit: what's next for Sanders supporters & listener calls on election 2016
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses weapons in space; President Obama's historic visit to Hiroshima, Japan and the effort to abolish nuclear weapons; Chris Hedges on the 2016 election & the Green Party of CT 2016 campaign plans
Tag: 05.16.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Breaking Through Power conference w Ralph Nader; Impeachment of Brazilian Pres. Dilma Rousseff, the post-election future of the Bernie Sanders campaign & this year's annual Left Forum conference in NYC
Tag: 04.11.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Panama Papers global tax shelter leaked documents; Democracy Awakening protests in Washington, D.C.; Kurdish people's struggle for independence; Opposition to CT energy policy
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: 02.29.16: 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: 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: 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
Tag: War Report for August 2015
Tag: China's Way of War