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) Jennifer Loewenstein, former associate director of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, assesses the rationale and consequences of Israel's attack on Iran, Tehran's retaliation, the Trump regime’s apparent role in the attack, and the threat that this conflict could trigger a wider regional conflict involving the U.S.

2) Elizabeth Jacobs, professor emeritus, of epidemiology at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at the University of Arizona, discusses her alarm at Trump’s Health and Human Services Secreatary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s removal of all 17 sitting members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory committee and replacing them with new members, many of whom are reported to be critics of mRNA vaccines, and public health measures taken during the COVID pandemic.

3) Sasha Abramsky, The Nation magazine’s Western correspondent and author, his latest titled, "Chaos Comes Calling: The Battle Against the Far-Right Takeover of Small-Town America." He'll talk about his recent articles, "Trump Calls Up the Marines. Democracy Is in Danger," and "Trump’s Dangerous Escalation in LA," and discuss the most dangerous authoritarian actions Trump may take in the coming days.

4) Ann Wright, a 29-year US Army/Army Reserves veteran who retired as a Colonel and a former US diplomat who resigned in March 2003 in opposition to the war on Iraq, discusses her views on Donald Trump's federalization and deployment of National Guard and Marine troops to Los Angeles over the objections of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, to suppress mostly peaceful protests re: militarized ICE deportation raids, and growing concern about the Trump regime's partisan politicization of the U.S. military.

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) Israel's Seizure of Ship Carrying Humanitarian Aid to Gaza Violates International Law
Craig Mokhiber, is an international human rights lawyer and former director of the New York Office of the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights who resigned in protest in 2023 due to the unfolding Gaza genocide and the UN’s failures. He'll discuss his urging the UN to convene under Uniting for Peace to mandate a protection force be deployed in Gaza, a call for a complete military embargo of Israel, robust sanctions against the regime, demand for a ceasefire, and action be taken to hold all perpetrators accountable.

2) No Kings June 14th AntiTrump Nationwide Protests, Likely to be the Biggest Since Trump Returned to the White House

Tamika Middleton, Managing Director of Women's March, discusses a broad coalition's plans for the June 14th national No Kings and Kick Out The Clowns protests in the face of President Trump and the Republican Party's attack on democracy and the rule of law, that are being organized in more than 1,600 locations across the U.S.

3) Trump Attacks on LGBTQ Community Provokes Energized Resistance

Human Rights Campaign National Press Secretary Brandon Wolf provides an overview of Donald Trump's many attacks on the LGBTQ+ community over the first 5 months of his administration, and in the first few days of June Pride Month. He'll also discuss how HRC and a national coalition of allied groups are pushing back in the courts and on the street.

4) If Trump Imposes Insurrection Act the US Will be on its Way to Dictatorship

Charles Haynes with the group Citizens Against Tyranny in America talks about Trump's deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles amid protests against ICE deportation raids, and his recent column, "Trump Protestors: You Have No Idea What Is To Come," with a focus on his concern that Trump may soon be deploying US military troops against US citizens protesting his authoritarian power grab, and the need for protest organizers to be prepared on how to respond.

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) Progressive Groups Demand Democrats Hold Emergency Meeting to Develop Effective Challenge to Trump's Autocracy

Alan Minsky, executive director of Progressive Democrats of America, discusses a petition circulated by several progressive groups calling for the Democratic National Committee to “convene an emergency meeting of all its members—fully open to the public—as soon as possible," to strategize in confronting "the predatory, extreme and dictatorial actions of the Trump administration. He’ll also review what happened in the May 30th meeting of the DNC's executive committee.

2) 'Project Esther' Advocates Suppression of Pro-Palestinian Protest, But Equates All Dissent with Terrorism

Andra Watkins, a New York Times best-selling author, who’s devoted many months researching and dissecting Project 2025 on her Substack online newsletter, "For Such a Time as This,” She'll discuss her recent column, "Project Esther: Where Dissent = Terrorism," with a focus on how the Trump regime's targeting of individuals and groups protesting Israel's genocide in Gaza, and in support of independence and self determination for Palestine, have as their larger goal the suppression of all dissent that they label as terrorism.

3) Group Files Human Rights Complaint Against US for Complicity with Israel's Gaza Genocide

Seth Donnelly one of the founders of Taxpayers Against Genocide, a grassroots movement spreading across the US, who talks about his group's class action lawsuit in Northern California against Congresspersons for their use of tax dollars to fund Israel's genocide in Gaza.

4) Coalition Wins Amendments to Connecticut 'Trust Act,' Strengthening Protections for Immigrant Community

Juan Fonseca of Danbury, the campaign manager of the Trust Act NOW! coalition, discusses the CT Senate's recent passage of amendments to the state's TRUST Act, assessing what was, and was not accomplished by groups working to strengthen protections for the state's immigrant community.

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) The Deadly Impact of Trump-GOP House Budget Bill

Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works, discusses his group's strategy to defeat Trump's grotesque budget bill in the U.S. Senate that mandates the largest cuts to Medicaid and Medicare in U.S. history, slashing the SNAP food assistance program, while disproportionately giving the wealthiest Americans and profitable corporations a tax break that will cost $4 trillion over the next decade -- all this while increasing the federal deficit by $3.8 trillion.

2) Trump White Supremacy on Full Display in Meeting with South Africa's President

Ron Jacobs, contributor to Counterpunch.org and author of "Nowhere Land: Journeys Through a Broken Nation," talks about his commentary, "Culture, Christianity, and the Afrikaner Blues," in the context of the blatantly false claims made by Donald Trump during South African President Ramaphosa's recent meeting at the White House.

3) Veterans' Fast Demands Israel Restore Full Humanitarian Aid to Gaza

Vietnam Veteran Russell Brown, talks about his participation in the 40-day “Veterans & Allies Fast for Gaza,” where dozens of US war veterans and religious activists have gathered at United Nations headquarters in New York City, with the goal of raising awareness of the famine looming over Gaza. Participants plan to consume less than 250 calories a day, mirroring the average daily nutrient intake of residents in Gaza. The fasters are demanding 1) Full humanitarian aid to Gaza under UN authority and 2) No more U.S. weapons to Israel.

4) Connecticut Teachers Union Civil Disobedience Protest Calls for Equitable Funding for State's Schools

Leslie Blatteau, President of the New Haven Federation of Teachers talks about the CT

chapter of the American Federation of Teachers union's recent civil disobedience protest resulting in the arrest of 10 members and students in front of CT Governor Ned Lamont's office at the State Capitol. The protest was part of a campaign to "secure more robust and equitable investments in Connecticut’s neighborhood and magnet schools."

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 Visit to Oil-Rich Gulf Monarchies has Mixed Outcome

Raed Jarrar, Advocacy Director with the group Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN,) an American non-profit organization founded in September 2020 by Saudi US based journalist Jamal Khashoggi before his assassination ordered by the Saudi monarchy. Jarrar will discuss his group's views on President Trump's recent visits to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the U.A.E., the deals announced, gifts received, and major issues discussed, including the ongoing slaughter and starvation of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

2) Broad Opposition to Trump-GOP's Extreme Medicaid, SNAP Budget Cuts

Analilia Mejia, Co-Executive Director of Popular Democracy in Action discuss her group's opposition to the Trump/GOP budget proposal that will cut a combined $1 trillion from Medicaid and the SNAP food stamp program, that will result in 10.3 million people losing Medicaid coverage over the next decade in order to pay for major tax cuts primarily benefiting the nation's wealthiest families.

3) Bill Targets Nonprofits Not Aligned with MAGA agenda

Lia Holland , Campaigns and Communications Director with Fight For The Future, talks about her group's opposition to a provision included in this year's GOP reconciliation bill, similar to last year's H.R. 9495, which would allow the Trump regime to remove the tax-exempt status of nonprofits that it says support terrorism, with no requirements for providing evidence to prove such a charge -- as a way to punish charities that advocate for issues that don’t align with Trump's MAGA agenda.

4) New Book Examines Gaza Genocide & Palestine, Israel History

Sim Kern, a former teacher, journalist, novelist, and bestselling author of "The Free People’s Village," talks about his new book, "Genocide Bad: Notes on Palestine, Jewish History, and Collective Liberation," part activist memoir, part crash course in Jewish and Palestinian history, Genocide Bad dismantles Zionist propaganda in ten unapologetic essays. Drawing connections between Biblical promises and exploding pagers, medieval dress codes and modern-day apartheid.

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) A Catholic Worker Activist's Appeal to Pope Leo to Visit Gaza
Kathy Boylan, is a member of the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker community in Washington, D.C. discusses her hopes for Pope Leo XlV, the first American Pope, as a peacemaker and advocate for social justice, as well as personal appeal to the new Pope to visit Gaza and take a moral stand against Israel's continuing war against the civilian Palestinian population, and current blockade of all food and humanitarian aid.

2) Challenging Trump's Effort to Eliminate Birthright Citizenship
Jacob Love, Senior Attorney with the Boston based group Lawyers for Civil Rights talks about his work challenging President Trump's executive order to strip birthright U.S. citizenship from children born to immigrant parents. He'll also discuss his concern about reports that the Trump regime is now actively considering deporting immigrants from the U.S. to Libya and Rwanda -- as well as the hundreds of Venezuelans who have already been remanded to El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison without due process.

3) New Report Finds 100 Ways Trump Has Hurt US Workers

Margaret Poydock, a senior policy analyst at the Economic Policy Institute who discusses EPI's new report, "100 Ways Trump Has Hurt Workers in his First 100 days," which she co-authored, as well as the response of workers and opponents challenging these Trump regime policies.

4) New Book Examines "The Green New Deal from Below"
Jeremy Brecher, a historian, documentary filmmaker, activist, and author of more than a dozen books on labor and social movements, including his widely acclaimed book, "Strike!" which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1972. Jeremy will talk about his latest book titled, "The Green New Deal from Below: How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy," that explores community-led initiatives in various sectors such as renewable energy, green schools, and fair labor practices.

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) Ralph Nader Assesses Trump's 100-Day Attack on Democracy

Ralph Nader, America’s best known and most effective public interest lawyer, who ran for president four times with the Green Party and as an independent, talks about the current constitutional crisis under the Trump regime, and his new book, "Civic Self-Respect," a handbook on democracy and the ways in which citizens are empowered by their several roles, not only as voters, but through other roles: such as worker, parent and veteran.

2) Israel's Gaza Food Blockade Triggers Famine, Hospitalizes 9,000 Children for Acute Malnutrition

Craig Mokhiber, an international human rights lawyer and former director of the New York Office of the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights who resigned in protest in 2023 because of the unfolding genocide in Gaza and the UN’s failures. He'll discuss Israel's blockade of food supplies to Gaza starving 2.3 million Palestinians, recent International Court of Justice hearings on Israel's attack on, and interference with UNRWA and other UN agencies in Palestine -- and the long term impact of Israel and the U.S. government's undermining of international law and the likely impact on future conflicts around the world.

3) Yale Bans Pro-Palestinian Campus Group Chilling Free Speech

Mark Colville, a longtime social justice activist who leads New Haven, CT's Amistad Catholic Worker House, and a Yale student discuss Yale University administrators decision to revoke Yalies4Palestine university club status, the larger issues of freedom of speech on campus, the illegitimate conflation of any criticism of Israel with antisemitism, and the Trump administration's attack on colleges and university federal funding in an effort to suppress dissent and academic freedom.

4) HHS Secretary RFK Jr. Pushes Vaccine Disinformation and Defunds Critical Public Health Research
Dr. Kristen Panthagani, PhD, a resident physician, Yale Emergency Scholar at Yale New Haven Hospital, and a research fellow focusing on population health, epidemiology, communication and misinformation. She'll discuss criticism of Trump-appointed HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s spread of disinformation about the safety of vaccines, promotion of bogus "cures" for the growing measles epidemic, regressive rhetoric about people suffering with autism, the mass firing of federal research scientists and budget cuts ending research into Alzheimers and cancer.

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) Assessing Trump's Disastrous First 100 Days

Melvin Goodman, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, professor of government at Johns Hopkins University, a former CIA analyst and author talks about his recent article, "The Meltdown of the United States," where he observes, "The executive branch has taken on powers that are usually associated with wartime requirements. The legislative branch has been largely neutralized because of the near total abdication of the Republican Party. And the judicial system is facing an unprecedented challenge from a president and vice president who have no respect for our courts and our judges."

2) Trump Deports US Citizen Children, Arrests Wisconsin Judge

Dulce Guzmán, Executive Director of the group Alianza Americas discusses her group's concerns about the arrest of Milwaukee County Judge Hanna Dugan over allegations she obstructed justice after directing a migrant out of her courtroom as federal agents waited to arrest him. She'll also address the Trump regime's continued defiance of federal and Supreme Court orders -- while hundreds of people are being deported without due process, some to a brutal prison in El Salvador.

3) Trump Policies Risk Dangerous Global Nuclear Proliferation

Kevin Martin, Executive Director of Peace Action, the country’s largest grassroots peace and disarmament organization, talks about his article, "Trump, the Peace President? More Likely the Proliferation President," assessing the Trump regime's foreign policy on Iran's nuclear program, the Ukraine war, Israel's ongoing slaughter of Palestinian civilians in Gaza and nuclear disarmament.

4) Opus Dei, Trump's MAGA Movement and Pope Francis' Catholic Church

Gareth Gore, a London-based investigative journalist and editor talks about his new book about Opus Dei the conservative personal prelature within the Catholic Church, "Opus The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church. He'll also discuss the late Pope Francis' views on Opus Dei, the coming college of cardinals vote for his successor, and the rising influence of the political right wing inside the U.S. Catholic Church.