COUNTERPOINT RADIO, hosted by Scott Harris, is heard every Monday night on WPKN 89.5 FM, Bridgeport, CT between 8:00 – 9:30 pm ET. Webstreaming and audio archive at http://wpkn.org

Some segments featured on Counterpoint are edited for re-broadcast on the syndicated Between The Lines radio news magazine. Visit their web site at http://www.btlonline.org for free subscriptions to mp3 - podcast audio files, program summaries and interview transcripts. An archive of current and past Counterpoint interviews are accessible for free at our Counterpoint Radio web site: http://counterpointradio.org The full 1.5 hour unedited program can be accessed for a 2 week period after the show, at the WPKN Radio archives: http://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/search/counterpoint

1) Trump's Iran War is a Catastrophe, HIs Sec. of War a Dangerous Failure

Retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence B. Wilkerson, who served a 31-year career in the U.S. military, was chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell from 2002 to 2005, and is now a Senior Fellow at the Eisenhower Media Network discusses his views on growing public concern about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's unprecedented purge of top military leadership, political interference in officer promotions, as well as charges of mismanagement and incompetence in the U.S. war on Iran.

2) U.S.-Venezuela 100 Year "Oil Agreement" Made at the Point of Trump's Gun

Steve Ellner is associate managing editor of Latin American Perspectives, a retired professor of Venezuela's Universidad de Oriente where he lived for over 40 years, and is author of more than a dozen books. Professor Ellner will discuss his views on the recently announced oil deal between the Trump administration and Venezuela's acting president Delcy Rodriguez -- focusing on the local response to the agreement by the people of Venezuela, political activists on the right and left -- and an examination of who will benefit from the oil agreement.

3) As ICE Mass Deportation Raids Terrorize Danbury, CT Community Resists

Tabitha Sookdeo, Executive Director of the youth-led organization, Connecticut Students for a Dream, talks about the recent ICE raids in Danbury, CT over the past week where at least 62 individuals were abducted by ICE agents, which led to a major protest march and rally as well as community organizing to resist the Trump regime's violent and cruel mass deportation campaign.

4) Decades of War Triggered by Nation's Fight to Control Oil and Pipelines

Charlotte Dennett, author of “Follow the Pipelines Uncovering the Mystery of a Lost Spy and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil,” discusses what’s really behind Trump’s six months of war in Iran, and the role of Big Oil in fomenting endless wars in the Middle East -- and U.S. designs on oil and other natural resources in Venezuela, Ukraine, Greenland and Canada.

COUNTERPOINT RADIO, hosted by Scott Harris, is heard every Monday night on WPKN 89.5 FM, Bridgeport, CT between 8:00 – 9:30 pm ET. Webstreaming and audio archive at http://wpkn.org

Some segments featured on Counterpoint are edited for re-broadcast on the syndicated Between The Lines radio news magazine. Visit their web site at http://www.btlonline.org for free subscriptions to mp3 - podcast audio files, program summaries and interview transcripts. An archive of current and past Counterpoint interviews are accessible for free at our Counterpoint Radio web site: http://counterpointradio.org The full 1.5 hour unedited program can be accessed for a 2 week period after the show, at the WPKN Radio archives: http://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/search/counterpoint

1) Rising Number of U.S. Troops Seek Exit Over Trump’s Wars, Concern Over International Law Violations

Steve Woolford, a Resource Counselor with Quaker House in Fayetteville, North Carolina and the GI Rights Hotline, where he provides free and confidential support to military service members, talks about assisting service members who are seeking advice on how to apply for conscientious objector status, and the troubling issues these men and women are confronting in their deployment in the U.S. war on Iran.

2) Trump's 19 Schemes to Subvert the Midterm Election

Justin Glawe, an independent journalist and editor of the American Doom newsletter, discusses his recent columns for Zeteo in their ‘Start The Steal’ series, covering the many actions Trump and his regime have launched to interfere with and manipulate the outcome of this November's midterm election.

3) ICE Raids Detain 60+ in Danbury CT, Sparking Anger and Protests

Carolina Bortolleto, a spokesperson for the group Danbury Unites for Immigrants talks about the recent ICE raids in Danbury over the past week where at least 62 individuals were abducted by ICE agents, and a march and rally being organized in response, that will take place in Danbury this Weds. Sept. 2nd 5:00 pm at the city’s Library Plaza.

4) Nuclear Power is a Destructive, False Solution to the Climate Crisis

Linda Pentz Gunter, founder and executive director of Beyond Nuclear, editor of the news site Beyond Nuclear International, and author of "No To Nuclear: Why Nuclear Power Destroys Lives, Derails Climate Progress and Provokes War.” She'll discuss her work advocating for a phase-out of nuclear power, and to educate the public about the links between nuclear power generation and nuclear weapons. Ms. Gunter will be speaking about her book at the Unitarian Church in Hamden, CT on Friday, Sept. 11th.

COUNTERPOINT RADIO, hosted by Scott Harris, is heard every Monday night on WPKN 89.5 FM, Bridgeport, CT between 8:00 – 9:30 pm ET. Webstreaming and audio archive at http://wpkn.org

Some segments featured on Counterpoint are edited for re-broadcast on the syndicated Between The Lines radio news magazine. Visit their web site at http://www.btlonline.org for free subscriptions to mp3 - podcast audio files, program summaries and interview transcripts. An archive of current and past Counterpoint interviews are accessible for free at our Counterpoint Radio web site: http://counterpointradio.org The full 1.5 hour unedited program can be accessed for a 2 week period after the show, at the WPKN Radio archives: http://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/search/counterpoint

1) Veteran Lawmakers Warn That America is the Middle of Trump's “Rolling Coup”

Sasha Abramsky is a journalist and author of books, including "The American Way of Poverty," "Chaos Comes Calling: The Battle Against the Far-Right Takeover of Small-Town America," and "American Carnage: How Trump, Musk, and DOGE Butchered the US Government." He'll discuss his recent columns in The Nation covering the Trump regime's open planning for a coup to manipulate the outcome of this November's midterm Congressional election, that most polls say Republicans will likely decisively lose.

2) Trump Regime Spies on Anti-ICE Activists in Echo of Cold War Era Attack on Free Speech

Gerry Condon, a Vietnam-era veteran and war resister, former president and current national board member of Veterans For Peace discusses VFP's condemnation of the Trump regime's spying on anti-ICE activists in Minneapolis/St. Paul against the backdrop of President Trump's criminal prosecution of his perceived political enemies and labeling Americans who oppose his agenda as 'domestic terrorists.'

3) To Fix our Broken Political System Advocates Push for Proportional Representation in U.S. House

Dustin Wahl, executive director of Fix Our House, who talks about his group's "education and advocacy campaign promoting proportional representation as an urgently-needed reform to pull politics out of its doom loop of polarization and dysfunction, sideline the anti-democratic forces threatening our democracy, and offer America’s diverse electorate full and fair representation in the House of Representatives."

4) Supreme Court Gives Trump an Interim Win in his Scheme to Restrict Mail-In Voting
Greg Palast, who’s been reporting on voter suppression for over 20 years, is an award-winning investigative journalist, best-selling author of "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy," whose investigations were featured in the documentary film, “Vigilante: Georgia’s Vote Suppression Hitman." He'll talk about the U.S. Supreme Court's interim ruling in a case involving Donald Trump's effort to have the federal government take control of mail-in voting in a scheme to manipulate the outcome of the midterm election that will determine which party controls Congress.