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) David Daley, former editor in chief of Salon, is the author of the national bestseller, "Antidemocratic: Inside the Far Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections," and Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count," which helped spark the drive to reform gerrymandering. Daley, whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Atlantic, and the Guardian, discusses his recent Nation article, "How the GOP Hopes to Gerrymander Its Way to a Midterms Victory," in view of what Trump and Republicans are doing to carve out 5 new GOP-leaning districts in Texas, and what democracy defenders could and should be doing now to prevent the further erosion of our democratic system and ensure the integrity of elections in both the short and long term.

2) Candice Fortin, US Campaign Manager with the climate group 350.org will provide an overview of the Trump regime's multi-pronged attack on all federal climate regulations, the short and long term impact on the environment, what if anything states can do to implement their own climate regulations -- and how climate/environmental activist groups like 350.org can challenge these policies both in court and in the streets.

3) Media Matters for America Senior Fellow Matt Gertz will assess how corporate and MAGA media are covering public demand for release of the Epstein files, with some cooperating with the Trump White House by amplifying clearly bogus distraction stories designed to tamp down the controversy. He'll also comment on Paramount corporation's decision to cancel The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and concerns that Pres. Trump's lawsuits and many other attempts to intimidate media outlets, constitutes a very real threat to free speech, freedom of the press, and democracy itself.

4) Kellie Snider, a contemporary American artist discusses the nation's history of white supremacy and racism-- before, during and after slavery. She'll also talk about her work as an artist, and the intersection of art and politics during our current crisis where the Trump regime is launching attacks on virtually all democratic institutions.

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, examines the current famine crisis in Gaza, the Trump regime's incoherent and dishonest policies toward Gaza and Palestinians; France, U.K, & Canada's plan to recognize a Palestinian state -- and what if any difference that policy shift could make.

2) Richard W. Behan a contributor to Counterpunch the progressive news and commentary website, talks about his recent article, "The Peril of Spectacle, Especially Jeffrey Epstein’s" and where the deepening bipartisan suspicion and anger about Donald Trump's expanding scandal may take the country -- and serve as a distraction from the central, existential fight to defend democracy against Trump-Republican Party fascism.

3) Rebecca Gordon is a retired professor of philosophy at the University of San Francisco, longtime political and faculty union activist, who writes regularly for TomDispatch.com. Author of several books, including "Mainstreaming Torture" and "American Nuremberg," Professor Gordon, discusses her important coverage of how the Trump regime is expanding the surveillance state targeting perceived enemies to extend and consolidate authoritarian power, described in her recent article, “The United Surveillance States of America.”

4) Ayesha R. Clarke, Executive Director of the Connecticut based group Health Equity Solutions, examines how the federal slashing of social safety net programs in Trump's recently passed budget bill will impact Connecticut, and what Governor Lamont and the state legislature can do to prepare and offset the pain and disruption to essential services serving the state's most vulnerable residents.

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) 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 Counterpunch commentary, "The Waste and Futility of the Golden Dome National Defense System," estimated to cost between $161 and $542 billion over two decades, and the larger danger of expiring U.S.-Russia nuclear arms control treaties.

2) Sharif Abdel Kouddous is the Middle East and North Africa editor with Drop Site News, who received a George Polk Award for his investigation into the killing of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. He'll discuss his coverage of Israel's starvation campaign against Gaza's 2.3 million Palestinian civilians -- and the Trump regime's role in this war crime via the U.S. backed "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" -- as reported in his recent article, "Palestinians Are Collapsing in Gaza's Streets From Israeli-Imposed Starvation Campaign."

3) Robert Greenwald is founder and president of Brave New Films, a nonprofit production company that creates and distributes investigative political and social justice documentaries. He'll talk about his new documentary, titled, "Gaza: Journalists Under Fire," which exposes Israel’s crimes against journalism and humanity, where more than 200 Gaza-based journalists have been killed since the October 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel -- through the lives and deaths of Palestinian journalists Belal Jadallah, Heba Al-Abadla, and Ismail al-Ghoul.

4) Mother Jones' magazine DC bureau reporter, Hannah Levintova, talks about her investigation featured in the Public Radio series, Reveal, titled, "The Landlord Gutting America's Hospitals," which examines how a real estate company buys up hospitals and then leases them back to health care systems, causing dozens of its hospitals to go bankrupt, close or be sold because profits were sucked out of them - resulting in the deterioration of patient care.