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) Amid Iran War U.S. Peace Movement MIA

Frida Berrigan, a long-time activist opposing the ever-stretching shadow of militarism who lives in Southeastern Connecticut, is the author of, “It Runs In The Family: On Being Raised By Radicals And Growing Into Rebellious Motherhood,” talks about her recent commentary, "Where Are the Iran War Protests: Despite a wildly unpopular war with Iran, a mass protest movement for peace hasn’t materialized — at least in the ways we’ve been taught to recognize."

2) After Democratic Socialists of America's Recent Electoral Success What's Ahead for the Movement?

Paul Heideman, author of "Rogue Elephant: How Republicans Went from the Party of Business to the Party of Chaos," discusses his recent Jacobin magazine article, "Where Are the Democratic Socialists of America Going?" which examines how the group is successfully navigating the US electoral system but continues to face considerable challenges in rooting itself in the U.S. working class.

3) After Election Will Republicans Refuse to Certify Democratic Candidate Victories to Maintain Congressional Control

Bill Blum, a Los Angeles lawyer and a former state of California administrative law judge, talks about his recent commentaries re: the midterm election, "Will Jan. 3 Be the New Jan. 6? When it comes to election subversion, expect the worst when Congress reconvenes in 2027," and "Trump’s Voter Purge Machine Just Got a Boost From the Supreme Court," as well as other threats looming over the midterm election.

4) Trump's Attack on Mail-In Voting Could Backfire, Disenfranchising His Own Supporters

Nick Licata, author of "Becoming A Citizen Activist," has served 5 terms on the Seattle City Council, named progressive municipal official of the year by The Nation, and is founding board chair of Local Progress, a national network of 1,000 progressive municipal officials. He'll talk about his recent Counterpunch article, "Trump’s Restrictions on Mail-In Voting Will Reduce the Republican Vote," and share his views on Trump's other plans to subvert the outcome of the November 3rd election.

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) Lula Fights to Stop Right Wing Wave in Brazil and Latin America.

Alexander Main, Director of International Policy at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C., assesses Brazil's recent first round presidential election where right wing candidate Flávio Bolsonaro received 2.25 million more votes than incumbent president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, major issues debated, prospects for the final election round, and the Trump regime's attempt to influence the outcome.

2) Trump Allied Oligarchs Take Over Another Hollywood Media Behemoth

Ari Paul, New York City-based journalist and lecturer at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, discusses his recent FAIR.org column, "CNN Cleared to Join CBS Under Trumpian Paramount Ownership," and issues related to the growing concentration of U.S. media ownership in the hands of Trump friendly oligarchs.

3) As American Dream Slips Away, More Americans are Searching for Answers from Socialist Candidates

Michael Zweig, emeritus professor of economics, founding director of the Center for Study of Working-Class Life at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and author of “Class, Race, and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism,” talks about the 2026 midterm election debate about "socialism," recent primary victories by Democratic Socialists of America candidates, and a growing number of Americans' declining confidence in attaining the "American Dream."

4) Republican's Attempt to Rehabilitate Richard "Tricky Dick" Nixon: the GOP Scheme to Normalize Trump's Lawlessness and Corruption

Salon columnist Heather Digby Parton, who writes Digby’s Hullabaloo blog, talks about her recent article, "The dark reasons behind all the Richard Nixon worship: MAGA needs to maintain its grip on the GOP after Donald Trump — and the 37th president is key." The column outlines Trump supporters' current effort to rehabilitate Nixon, along with unsupported charges that he was unjustly forced to resign in 1973 by the "deep state."

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

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) GOP Hearing Launches Latest Effort to Cut Social Security Benefits

Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works, talks about a U.S. House Budget Committee field hearing held on September 21st at a Dallas property owned by billionaire Harlan Crow, which focused on establishing a fast-track commission, which senior advocates view as a GOP strategy to cut Social Security benefits behind closed doors.

2) Former Senior Military, Security Officials Urge State Attorneys General to Block Federal Armed Interference in Midterm Election

Dan Schwartz, Legal Affairs Lead with National Security Leaders for America (NSL4A) discusses his group's recent call on state attorneys general to prepare to block armed federal interference in the midterm election, and other issues related to President Trump's threat to interfere with and manipulate the outcome of the midterm Congressional election that the Republican Party is predicted to lose.

3) In Germany’s Recent Elections Left Rising Alongside Far Right

Cas Mudde, Stanley Wade Shelton UGAF Professor of International Affairs and Distinguished Research Professor, School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia discusses his recent Guardian column, "Look again – there’s more to Europe’s election trends than far-right success," and shares his views on the outcome of recent elections in Germany and the rise of the far right across Europe.

4) 13 Years After the New Haven Advocate's Demise, the Alternative Weekly Newspaper is Reborn into a Quarterly

Tom Smith, writer, editor, drummer, and author of, "The Crescent City Lynchings," who served as an Associate writer and columnist with the New Haven Advocate newspaper from 1978 to 1987, talks about the recent relaunch of the New Haven Advocate as a quarterly alternative newspaper more than 50 years after the publication’s first printing, featuring news, commentary and humor. Smith, along with Colleen Van Tassell, and writer and illustrator John Guillemette, serve as the revived newspaper’s editors.

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) White House Ban of Three Media Outlets, Only the Latest Trump Attack on the Constitution's First Amendment

Victor Pickard, the C. Edwin Baker professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses Donald Trump's decision to ban journalists from CNN, MS-NOW, and Politico from the White House grounds, revoking their press credentials and triggering a major constitutional showdown over press freedom. He'll focus on this recent issue in the context of the many other instances of Trump regime attacks on journalists, media outlets and the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of the press.

2) Yemen's Houthi's Playing an increasingly Pivotal Role in the U.S. War on Iran

Nicolas J. S. Davies is an independent journalist, a researcher with CODEPINK, and the author of "Blood On Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq." He'll discuss his recent column co-written with Medea Benjamin, "The Urgency of Recognizing the Ansar Allah Government in Yemen," and issues related to the current situation in Yemen, Trump's war on Iran, and conflict's impact on the flow of Middle East oil.

3) Erik Prince, founder of the Blackwater Mercenary Army, is now Operating in Haiti & linked to Civilian Deaths

Kim Ives, a journalist and editor at the weekly newspaper Haïti Liberté, talks about the issues he's covering in Haiti, news of ongoing violence, the role of Erik Prince, founder of the private military contractor Blackwater, the UN adjacent Gang Suppression Force, and the Trump regime's decision to revoke TPS status for some 350k Haitians in the U.S., with the threat of mass deportation.

4) Trump's March to Consolidate U.S. Fascist State Can Only be Stopped by Mass Civil Society Uprising

Paul Street is an independent radical-democratic policy researcher, journalist, historian and author of "This Happened Here: Amerikaners, Neoliberals, and the Trumping of America." He'll discuss his column, "It’s Only Wednesday, For Fascist’s Sakes!" a compendium of Donald Trump's crimes against democracy from less than one recent week.

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 Authoritarian Onslaught is Designed to Overwhelm a Nation that Rejects his Tyranny

Sarah Kendzior is a journalist, anthropologist, and researcher, who's the bestselling author of several books including her latest, "They Knew" and "The Last American Road Trip," and is the former co-host of the popular podcast Gaslit Nation. She'll discuss her views on the Trump regime's looming threat to subvert the outcome of the midterm election by a multi-pronged set of seditious tactics -- and the enormous challenge of reconstructing our broken nation's democratic institutions.

2) Trump's Mental Instability and Unilateral Presidential Powers Creates Risk of Global Catastrophe

Dr. Bandy Lee, a forensic and social psychiatrist, co-founder and president of the World Mental Health Coalition, and is editor of the bestselling book, "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump," which analyzed the mental fitness of President Donald Trump. Dr. Lee, whose latest book is titled, "The Psychology of Trump Contagion: An Existential Danger to American Democracy and All Humankind," will explain why she believes that Trump's mental instability and unfettered presidential powers create an extreme, unprecedented risk of global catastrophe.

3) Growing Recognition AI Danger Provokes Calls for Development Slow Down and Regulation

Miranda Bogen, Director of the Center for Democracy & Technology’s AI Governance Lab & Chief Technologist talks about the important work her group has been doing to educate the public on the dangers of unregulated artificial intelligence, while calling for new AI regulatory legislation at both the U.S. federal level and internationally. This conversation follows a week when news coverage of AI erupted after high-profile researchers warned that increasingly powerful AI systems may be advancing faster than scientists can reliably control them, and reports of six cases of unauthorized AI behavior, including AI agents concealing mistakes and circumventing human direction.

4) Pro Palestinian Protest at Philadelphia Venue of Ed Sheeran's First Concert After Removal of Rapper Macklemore From 42-City Tour

Shayna, a critical care nurse, anti-imperialist organizer and spokesperson for organizers of this past Saturday’s demonstration where hundreds gathered outside of Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field ahead of Ed Sheeran’s first concert after rapper Macklemore was dropped as an opening act because of several stadium owner’s objections to his earlier pro-Palestinian remarks. Following Macklemore's exit, all of Sheeran's opening acts, and his own Beoga band members, protested by withdrawing from his 42-city Loop Tour in 15 countries, including Finneas, Lukas Graham, and Aaron Row. Protesters at the Philadelphia concert venue demanded a free Palestine, an end to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, while condemning the blatant silencing of artists who express solidarity with the Palestinian people.

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) 25 Years Later U.S. Post-9/11 Wars Cost $8 Trillion and Caused More Than 4.5 Million Deaths Worldwide

Elizabeth Miller, Project Director September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, discusses the important work her group has been doing since the 9/11 terrorist attack, advocating nonviolent options and actions in the pursuit of justice. Stephanie Savell Co-director of the Costs of War Project at Brown University's Watson Institute, talks about her group's research on the cost of U.S. wars launched after the 9/11 attacks -- and the impact that's had on our nation's security, foreign policy and civil liberties 25 years later.

2) U.S.–Canada Trade War: "The Most Stupid Trade Fight in History"

Lori Wallach, Director of the Rethink Trade program at American Economic Liberties Project, and senior Advisor to the Citizens Trade Campaign, the U.S. national trade justice coalition of unions and environmental, consumer, faith, family farm and other groups. She'll discuss the causes and consequences of the trade war initiated by Donald Trump, after bilateral trade negotiations collapsed, leading the U.S. to impose 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods in August 2026, which Canada matched with dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs on $20 billion of U.S. exports earlier this month.

3) Hedge Fund Billionaire Stephen Mandel Funds Campaigns to Make the Democratic Party More Business Friendly

Katya Schwenk, an investigative journalist covering private interests and corporate power at The Lever, talks about her article co-written with Luke Goldstein, titled, "How A Hedge Fund Billionaire Became The Democrats’ New Kingmaker," about Stephen Mandel who's bankrolling a new political apparatus built to “redefine” the Democratic Party.

4) More Than 1 Million Refugees Who Held U.S. TPS Revoked by Trump Now Face Potential Deportation

Dulce Guzmán, Executive Director at Alianza Americas, discuss her group's work focusing public attention on the plight of hundreds of thousands of refugees from more than a dozen countries who have had their TPS status revoked by the Trump administration -- and the uncertainty that nationals from El Salvador who reside in the U.S. are now living with because Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin has not announced any decision on their future status.

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.