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.