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Counterpoint with Scott Harris

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  • Each week, host Scott Harris conducts interviews on a wide range of political, economic and social topics with individuals and representatives of organizations not ordinarily accessible in the mainstream media. This show airs weekly on WPKN (wpkn.org) and streams here in podcast form.
    2024 Squeaky Wheel Productions, Inc.
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Each week, host Scott Harris conducts interviews on a wide range of political, economic and social topics with individuals and representatives of organizations not ordinarily accessible in the mainstream media. This show airs weekly on WPKN (wpkn.org) and streams here in podcast form.
2024 Squeaky Wheel Productions, Inc.
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  • How Will Members of Trump's Cult Respond to his Election Win; Kamala Harris' Defeat Linked to Ignoring Working Class Economic Discontent; Assessing Media's Failures in Covering 2024 Election; Immigrant Advocacy Groups Plan to Resist Trump's Mass Deportation Pledge
    2024/11/12

    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) How Will Members of Trump's Cult Respond to his Election Win

    Steven Hassan, a mental health professional, author, and one of the nations foremost deprogrammers who's helped people leave destructive cults, talks about the new edition of his book, "The Cult of Trump," and the impact Donald Trump's election victory will have on the president-elect himself, his followers, and his MAGA movement's attack on U.S. democratic institutions.

    2) Kamala Harris' Defeat Linked to Ignoring Working Class Economic Discontent

    Branko Marcetic, a Jacobin magazine staff writer and author of "Yesterday’s Man: The Case Against Joe Biden," who examines why Vice President Kamala Harris lost the election to twice impeached, convicted felon and coup plotting insurrectionist Donald Trump, with a focus on the Democrat's failure to speak to the economic concerns that were by far voters’ leading motivation for choosing a candidate on Election Day.

    3) Assessing Media's Failures in Covering 2024 Election

    Victor Pickard, C. Edwin Baker professor of media policy and political economy, and co-director at the Media, Inequality & Change Center at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, assesses corporate media's coverage of the 2024 election, with a focus on the decline of legacy media outlets i.e. newspapers and cable TV news, the growing strength, reach and influence of rightwing "Bro" social media and podcast sphere, and the lack of funding support to develop a progressive counterpart and alternative.

    4) Immigrant Advocacy Groups Plan to Resist Trump's Mass Deportation Pledge

    Dulce Guzmán, Executive Director of Alianza Americas talks about her group’s recent call for justice and unity after Donald Trump’s election victory, and nationwide preparations being made to resist Trump's campaign pledge to deport 11+ million immigrants living in the U.S.

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  • Worries that Biden Gaza Policy Will Lose Harris Votes; Women's Pivotal Role in 24' Election; Social Media Platforms Flood Election Campaign with Disinformation; Election Will Decide Future of Social Security and Medicare
    2024/11/05

    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) Democrats Should Worry that Biden-Harris Gaza Policy Will Lose Votes in Must-Win Battleground States


    Richard Eskow, host and managing editor of "The Zero Hour" and the lead writer for Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign. He recently wrote the piece "Dems Are Afraid Gaza Will Cost Them the Election. They’re Not Afraid Enough." He discusses the Biden/Harris administration's position on Israel's savage war in Gaza and how it may impact the turnout of voters Kamala Harris needs to win the battleground states essential for an electoral college victory. He'll also assess Kamala's move to the center on a host of issues during this campaign, and what progressive activists must do if she wins to advocate and agitate to support progressive policy initiatives.

    2) Trump's Misogyny and Role in Eliminating Reproductive Rights Have Made Women's Votes Pivotal in Determining Presidential Election Winner


    Amanda Marcotte, a senior politics writer at Salon.com, author of "Troll Nation: How The Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters…" and publishes the biweekly politics newsletter, Standing Room Only. She'll discuss election issues including the critical role the gender gap will play in the election outcome, and the long-term post-election damage we can expect from Trump's toxic, hateful message targeting immigrants and the trans community.

    3) Disinformation Floods US Election Campaign Fueling Distrust in Government and Inciting Violence


    Nora Benavidez, senior counsel and director of digital justice and civil rights with the media democracy group Free Press, discusses the important issues examined in Free Press' recent reports on how social media platforms have degraded or abandoned content moderation, creating an environment that could fuel the spread of dangerous disinformation before and after the November 5th election, which could lead to deepening distrust in the electoral process and violence. She'll also explore policies Free Press has researched that could be implemented to better control the spread of both misinformation and disinformation adjacent to future elections and public health crises/ pandemics.

    4) Election Outcome will Decide Future of Social Security and Medicare

    Alex Lawson Executive Director of Social Security Works talks about his work ahead of the election to protect and strengthen Social Security and Medicare, with a focus on opposing Trump - GOP proposed cuts to benefits, and support for updating the Social Security COLA formula, V.P. Harris' proposal to expand Medicare to cover long-term care at home, and provide Medicare more power to negotiate lower drug prices.

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    1 時間 21 分
  • Media's Credulous Coverage of Trump's Candidacy is Journalistic Malpractice, Michelle Obama Powerfully Addresses What's at Stake for Reproductive Rights in US Election, New Book 'Vigilante Nation' Describes MAGA's State Based Attack on Democracy, If Kamala Wins, Trump-GOP Have a Plan to Subvert Election Outcome
    2024/10/29

    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) Media's Credulous Coverage of Trump's Candidacy is Journalistic Malpractice

    Chris Lehmann, DC Bureau chief for The Nation magazine and a contributing editor at The Baffler discusses his recent article, "The Press Needs to Start Taking Trump Literally," addressing the media's coverage of Trump's unhinged and dangerous comments pronouncing January 6th as "a day of love," calls to use the US military to round up his political enemies, and his admiration of Adolph Hitler.


    2) Michelle Obama Powerfully Addresses What's at Stake for Reproductive Rights in US Election

    An excerpt of former First Lady Michelle Obama's speech delivered in Kalamazoo, Michigan on October 26th, where she powerfully spoke about the issue of reproductive rights and what's at stake in the 2024 election -- directly addressing the urgency of the issue for men, who's wives, sisters, mothers, cousins, aunts and girlfriends' lives are jeopardized by Trump's abortion ban.


    3) New Book 'Vigilante Nation' Describes MAGA's State Based Attack on Democracy

    David Noll, Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development and a Professor of Law at Rutgers University, who discusses his new book, "Vigilante Nation: How State-Sponsored Terror Threatens Our Democracy," co-written with UCLA professor of law Jon Michaels, which examines Trump/Republican election denialism, xenophobia and embrace of political violence in the 2024 election campaign.


    4) If Kamala Wins, Trump-GOP Have a Plan to Subvert Election Outcome

    Teddy Wilson, a journalist and researcher on the U.S. radical right discusses the threat posed to the 2024 presidential election by Republican operatives, including the American First Legal Foundation, that are filing multiple lawsuits and laying the groundwork to challenge county and state election outcomes if Trump loses, as well as sowing chaos with plans to delay the certification of election results.

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