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) Adam W Gaffney, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Bruce Lesley, President of the group First Focus on Children discuss the expected overall healthcare impact of the Trump/GOP federal budget bill just passed by Congress that cuts $1 trillion from Medicaid and Medicare, will take away millions of poor families's access to food and nutrition programs, and close hundreds of community hospitals. Both will also address viable alternatives to America's current failed for-profit healthcare system.

2) Chris Lehmann, the DC Bureau chief for The Nation magazine and a contributing editor at The Baffler, discusses the important and timely issues examined in his recent Nation article, "Trump's Big Bill is Building a Big Police State," "explaining that with more than $150 billion in outlays to expand the horrific surveillance, detention, and rendition regime created under the Laken Riley Act, the measure will carry out Trump’s pledge to make the terror wreaked by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, alongside federal and National Guard troops, in Los Angeles the standard operating procedure for immigrant roundups going forward."

3) Teddy Wilson, a journalist and researcher with more than a decade of experience covering the U.S. Radical Right who publishes the Radical Reports newsletter, talks about indicted January 6th insurrectionist, Jared L. Wise's appointment as a counselor to Ed Martin, Director of the so-called Dept. of Justice 'Weaponization Working Group,' and also discusses investigations he's conducted in his "Pardon Tracker" series re: the alarming activities of insurrectionists and other convicted criminals after they were pardoned by Donald Trump.

4) Maggie Mitchell Salem, Executive Director of the CT based group IRIS, Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services, discusses the impact of the Trump administration's new immigration policies on IRIS services, as well as federal funds revoked or withdrawn from IRIS' budget. She'll also talk about her group's new 'Know Your Rights' campaign that was launched on the July 4th weekend, and other projects and services local listeners can support or volunteer for.

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) Sarah Kendzior, author of four bestselling books including, “They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent,” and her latest, "The Last American Road Trip," talks about the Trump - GOP mafia state's aggressive attack on the U.S. constitution, rule of law and dissent, as the regime deploys National Guard troops and the Marines to U.S. cities and instigates war (with Israel) against Iran.

2) Amanda Marcotte, a senior politics writer at Salon.com and author of "Troll Nation: How The Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters Set On Rat-F*cking Liberals, America, and Truth Itself," talks about her recent commentary, "Evangelicals push Trump into conflict with Iran," making the case that the Christian right remains Trump's most important constituency.

3) India Walton, senior strategist with RootsAction.org, won the Democratic primary for mayor of Buffalo, N.Y. in 2021, but lost the general election after establishment Democrats, Republicans and the city's business sector pulled out all the stops to defeat her. She'll discuss Zohran Mamdani's apparent and historic victory in the New York City primary election, and the attacks and obstacles he'll likely face in the general election campaign as the Democratic Party establishment, their corporate allies and Wall Street attempt to smear Zohran as a "dangerous Muslim socialist."

4) Dulce Guzman, Executive Director of Alianza Americas discusses her group's response to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that limits the power of federal judges to issue nationwide injunctions, without addressing the constitutionality of Trump’s executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship. She'll also talk about the next steps in defending the U.S. Constitution from Trump regime authoritarian rule.

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 Bombing of Iran an Echo of Disastrous Iraq War

Phyllis Bennis, director of the Institute for Policy Studies’ New Internationalism Project, talks about President Trump's decision to launch of air strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities, the ongoing Israel-Iran air battle, and the danger that Trump's entry into the conflict could ignite a dangerous regional war.

2) Trump & MAGA's Embrace of Political Violence Kills

David Schultz, Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Political Science, Environmental Studies, and Legal Studies at Hamline University, discusses his recent Counterpunch article, "The Tragedy of Political Violence: It Works," recounting how violence has played a critical role in shaping history across the world and here in the U.S. He’ll examine Donald Trump and the Republican Party’s embrace and normalization of political violence, such as the January 6th Capitol insurrection and the more recent deployment of U.S. military forces to suppress anti-Trump/ICE protests in Los Angeles, and how Trump’s MAGA movement could employ political violence to extinguish U.S. democracy.

3) Democrats Must Adopt Progressive Economic Agenda to Defeat Trump and Protect Democracy

Norman Solomon, co-founder of RootsAction.org, executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy and author talks about the recent massive June 14th nationwide anti-Trump protests, and his recent commentary, "No Kings Day' was historic: Now we need a powerful — and independent — movement against Trump," discussing the strategies and tactics necessary to stop the Trump-GOP march toward fascism.

4) Danbury CT Immigration Activists Organize the Community to Counter ICE Deportation Raids

Carolina Bortolleto, co-founder and Co-Executive Director with Connecticut Students for a Dream, and immigrant rights activist Juliana Soares discuss recent ICE deportation raids in Danbury and elsewhere in Connecticut, the Danbury community's response, and demands issued by Danbury Unites for Immigrants, a collective of local immigrant community leaders.