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) As Trump Escalates Attack on Democracy Resistance Grows

Yint Hmu of Public Citizen's democracy campaign discusses the work her group is doing to challenge and resist the Trump authoritarian agenda both at home and abroad, including their many lawsuits and national protest organizing. They'll also talk about the explosive situation in Minneapolis in the aftermath of the ICE shooting death of Renee Good, as Trump threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act and declare martial law.

2) Religious Leaders Step Up to Resist ICE Violence

Rabbi Jill Jacobs, CEO of T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights talks about her group's condemnation of the ICE killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis, and a call for accountability, justice and an end to ICE brutality nationwide.

3) 'Walk Out' Protest Actions Respond to Rising State Violence in Minnesota

Tamika Middleton, Chief Political and Strategy Officer with Women's March, talks about the January 20th Free America Walkout protest, and other important work Women's March is prioritizing. Student leader

Saniyah Yoland of the group Get Free, a youth-led progressive activist movement, talks about the work they're doing organizing students for the Friday, Jan. 23rd school walkout protest.

4) FCC Commissioner Decries Government Assault on Free Press

FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez, the lone Democrat serving on the Federal Communications Commission talks about her concerns re: the concentration of media ownership, FCC censorship and interference in the exercise of First Amendment right to free speech, the future of public media and the expansion of broadband access.

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 Takeover of Venezuela for Oil Follows Decades Long Destabilization Campaign

Alexander Main, Director of International Policy at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, talks about President Trump's regime's illegal kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, imposition of a naval blockade, seizure of oil tankers, and the president's declaration that the U.S will run Venezuela and take control of that nation's oil for many years ahead. He’ll also address Trump’s threat to attack other nations including Columbia, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, Greenland and Canada and Iran.

2) Minnesota Explodes in Protest after ICE Killing of Renee Good

Pastor Doug Pagitt, Executive Director of the Minneapolis-based national organization Vote Common Good, that organizes religious activists to take action against the Trump administration's mass deportation agenda, talks about this moment of crisis in the aftermath of the ICE shooting death of ICE observer Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of 3.

3) Trump Aligned Oligarchs Launch Media Mergers to Transform Outlets into MAGA Propaganda Platforms

Victor Pickard the C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the Annenberg School for Communication, where he co-directs the Media, Inequality & Change Center, talks about recent mega media mergers, spinoffs, and the effort by Trump-supporting oligarchs to buy up media properties that could dramatically impact news coverage and cultural content. He'll touch on his recent co-written piece, "The Political Economy of the US Media System: Excavating the Roots of the Present Crisis."

4) US Venezuela Attack Rouses U.S. Senate to Pass War Powers Resolution

Marjorie Cohn, professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and past president of the National Lawyers Guild, discusses her recent commentary, "Trump Will Try to Defend Aggression Toward Venezuela. It’s Still Illegal." She'll also comment on the legal and accountability issues related to the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.

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) After Venezuela Attack Trump Threatens to Strike Iran Again

Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft is author of, "Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy.” Parsi talks about his recent article, "As expected, Netanyahu back demanding more war with Iran," recent Trump threats to intervene in Iran if the government kills anti-government protesters, and the message to Iran's leaders after the US kidnapping of Venezuela's president Nicolás Maduro.

2) Trump's Kidnapping of Venezuelan President will have Far Reaching Consequences

Steve Ellner, an associate managing editor of Latin American Perspective, and a retired professor at the Universidad de Oriente in Venezuela, where he lived for over 40 years -- and Andreína Chávez, based in Caracas, who wrote the recent DropSite News article, “War of the entire people: Venezuela's Grassroots Rise to Resist Trump's Naval Blockade," examine the consequences of Donald Trump's attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro, in Venezuela, Latin America and the world.

3) Trump - RFK Jr's Research Cuts and Vaccine Changes Threaten US Public Health

Kayla Hancock, Director of Public Health Watch at Protect Our Care talks about her group's opposition to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decision to cut seven grants worth millions of dollars to The American Academy of Pediatrics, jeopardizing initiatives on reducing sudden infant deaths, improving adolescent health, preventing fetal alcohol syndrome and identifying autism early.

4) Resistance to Trump Growing in his 2nd Year Back in the White House

Kevin B. Anderson, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara talks about his recent article, "The Worm Turns: Trumpist Fascism." He'll discuss issues related to effective resistance, the need to organize a popular front, big tent opposition to Trump's authoritarian rule, while ensuring progressives don't sacrifice minority constituencies or controversial positions on the climate crisis, the right of Palestinians to self-determination and independence, and trans people's rights to basic human rights.