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 U.S. Labor Movement Must Organize its Members to Fight the Trump-MAGA Fascist Threat

Bill Fletcher Jr., former president of TransAfrica Forum, a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies, and the author of “They’re Bankrupting Us!”: And 20 Other Myths about Unions” -- his latest novel is titled, "The Man Who Changed Colors." He'll discuss the critical issues examined in his recent In These Times magazine article, "The Labor Movement Is in a Fight for Its Existence Against a Neofascist Threat."

2) A Desperate Trump Could Order the National Guard to Intervene in the 2026 Election

Justin Glawe, an independent journalist and editor of the American Doom newsletter, discusses the urgent issues examined in his recent article, "How Trump's National Guard shock troops could seize voting machines," and other concerns about the security of the 2026 midterm election that Trump and the Republican Party are clearly worried they'll lose - and now taking action on to rig the outcome.

3) Will the World Support a UN Plan That Could End Israel's Gaza Genocide?

Craig Mokhiber, former director of the New York Office of the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, who resigned in protest from his post in 2023, due to the unfolding Gaza genocide and the UN’s failures. He'll discuss his recent article, "How the UN Could Act Today to Stop the Genocide in Palestine," and the general failure of international law in Gaza, Palestine and Israel.

4) Trump Orders Shutdown of $4 Billion RI - CT Wind Farm Project That's 80% Complete

Aziz Dehkan, Executive Director/Lead Organizer with Connecticut Roundtable on Climate and Jobs, discusses CRCJ's response to the Trump Administration's order halting construction of the Revolution Wind offshore wind project that is 80% complete, that would power 350,000 homes in CT and Rhode Island, as well as the other priorities the group is working on in the state legislature this year.

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 Push Democrats to Back Resolution Suspending US Military Aid to Israel

Sam Rosenthal, Political Director with the group RootsAction.org talks about the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and the coalition of progressive groups supporting a resolution calling for “an immediate ceasefire, an arms embargo and suspension of military aid to Israel” that will be heard at a meeting of the Democratic National Committee August 25th to 27th.

2) Labor Day 2025: Unions Organize Nationwide 'Workers Over Billionaires' Rallies to Fight Trump Attacks on Working Families.

Constanza Segovia, Organizing Director with Connecticut For All, discusses plans underway for Labor Day protests nationally and in Connecticut on the theme of 'Workers Over Billionaires,' where the Trump administration has over the past 7 months launched multiple attacks on working families and labor unions.

3) US Science, Public Health Under Attack as HHS Sec. RFK Jr. Cuts All Federal Funding for mRNA Vaccine Research

Dr. Ferric C. Fang, MD, Professor of Laboratory Medicine, Pathology, and Microbiology at the University of Washington School of Medicine, discusses his views on the decision by HHS Sec. RFK Jr. and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, to cancel all federal contracts for research on mRNA vaccines, "because the public lacks trust in the technology," and the consequences for U.S. and global public health in normal times, and in the event of future deadly pandemics.

4) Floundering Democrats Urged to Follow FDR's Example of Uncompromising Battle to Enact Progressive Popular Economic Policies

Heather Digby Parton, a contributing writer to Salon.com, discusses the important issues examined in her recent Salon article, "Paging FDR: Democrats need to embrace New Deal-style politics," where she recounts how President Franklin Delano Roosevelt fought for the underdog — and was brazenly ruthless, urging floundering Democrats to follow FDR's lead.

5) Danbury, CT Organizes Community Resistance to Escalating ICE Raids and Abductions

Sierra-Marie Gerfao, Director of Family Ministry at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Danbury, and Juliana Soares and organizer with the group Greater Danbury Unites for Immigrants, talk about the escalation of violent ICE raids and abductions in Danbury, and elsewhere around Connecticut, and what opponents of this lawless repression are doing to rally resistance against the Trump regime's dehumanizing policy.

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 7-Months of Authoritarian Rule

Jason Stanley, Professor of Philosophy and Chair of American Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, and author of "Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future," and "How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them." Professor Stanley will examine the Trump regime's 7 month history of imposing authoritarian rule, including his issuing a recent executive order mandating an expansive review of the the Smithsonian Institution's museum exhibitions, materials and operation, to ensure they align with President Donald Trump's view of history.

2) Trump's Militarized Occupation of Washington, DC: A Rehearsal for Takeover of Other US Cities

Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, Co-Founder & Executive Director of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, discusses her group's response to Donald Trump's militarized takeover of Washington, D.C., and growing concern that this is yet another test (along with Los Angeles) that's laying the groundwork for the deployment of the U.S. military to cities across the nation, and the possible future invocation of the insurrection act and suspension of constitutional rights.

3) Transactional Corruption: Paramount's Firing of Stephen Colbert Linked to FCC Approval of Corporate Merger

Sydney Register, Press Secretary with the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, and Aaron Stephens, PCCC's Senior Legislative Strategist, will discuss their group's campaign targeting Paramount's cancellation of Stephen Colbert's contract on the Late Show linked with the company's request for FCC approval of their $8 billion merger with Skydance -- and PCCC's response to the Trump regime and GOP's unprecedented effort to gerrymander 5 Congressional seats in Texas and possibly 8-10 seats in other states in advance of the 2026 mid term election.

4) Debunking Trump's Many Lies About The Homeless

Susan Campbell, Distinguished Lecturer, College of Arts & Sciences at the University of New Haven, discusses her recent commentary, "Debunking lies about America's homeless," in the context of President Trump's takeover of the Washington, D.C.'s Police Department and his announced deployment of 800+ National Guard troops to "crack down on crime and homelessness."