Counterpoint with Scott Harris
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.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 80 minutes
- Episodes
- 56
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Voters' Contradictory Support for Abortion and Trump; Women's March Organizing Jan 18th Trump Protest; Respond to Trump's Agenda with Radical Action; ICC Issues War Crimes Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu, Others
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 featu…
How Traitor Trump Won 2024 Election; Trump's Bizarre Cabinet Picks Meet Little GOP Resistance; Trump Laying Groundwork to Establish Mafia State; House Bill Will Give Trump Weapon to Attack his Enemies
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 featu…
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
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 featu…
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
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 featu…
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
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 featu…
Trump's fascist threat in 2024 election; Israel provoking war w Iran may draw in US; Rev. William Barber on the intersection between morality and social justice; Naming 7 corporations undermining democracy
1) Trump's Fascist Threats Increase as 2024 Campaign Nears End
Jason Stanley, the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University and author of "How Fascism Works," talks about his newest boo…
GOP Plan to Undermine Presidential Election; Project 2025's Sabotage of Federal Disaster Response; Sanders Pushes Bill to Stop US Weapons Sales to Israel; Nuts & Bolts of Progressive Electoral Success
1) Trump, GOP Plan to Undermine Presidential Election Results if They Lose
Justin Glawe, an independent journalist, frequent contributor to Rolling Stone magazine, writes the newsletter American Doom.…
Media Sanitizing US Role in Israel's Brutal Gaza War; Media 'Sanewashing' Trump's Cognitive Decline; Big Oil Should Pay for Climate Change-Fueled Hurricane Destruction; Mexico's 1st Female President's Challenges
1) US Media Sanitizes US Role in Israel's Brutal Gaza War
Norman Solomon, co-founder of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, talks about his latest book, "War M…
Israel's Provoking Hezbollah into Wider War; GOP Georgia Election Deniers' Sabotage; Trumpism's Toxic Election Issue: Immigration; Blinken's Reckless Action in Ukraine
1) Israel's Attack on Hezbollah in Lebanon Threatens to Ignite Long Feared Wider War
John Feffer, director of Foreign Policy In Focus and Global Just Transition at the Institute for Policy Studies, di…
Dangers of Israel-Hezbollah Conflict; Trump's Deadly Abortion Ban; Consequences of Expired Pandemic Safety Net; Billy Bragg on Politics, Hope and Power of Music
1) Escalating Conflict Between Israel and Hezbollah Could Erupt into Regional War
Jennifer Loewenstein, former associate director of Middle Eastern Studies and senior lecturer at the University of Wis…
Trump's Stochastic Terrorism Targets Haitian Immigrants; Common Cause's Election Protection; Rebel Singer/Songwriter Billy Bragg's Political Activism; El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele's Growing Repression & Violence
1) Donald Trump's Repeated Stochastic Terrorism Now Targets Haitian Immigrants
Wajahat Ali, creator of Left Hook substack, co-host of The Democracy-ish podcast, and author of "Go Back to Where You Cam…
'The Inflection Election: Democracy or Fascism'; ACLU v. University Crackdown on Gaza Protests; Climate Future: Apocalypse or Utopia; Portland, Maine Divests from Israel
1) New Book Warns Voters that 2024 is "The Inflection Election: Democracy or Fascism"
Mark Green, former two-term New York City public advocate and author or editor of 26 books on U.S. politics, discu…
Massive Protests Blame Netanyahu for Hostage Deaths; Election Campaign Threats to Democracy; Work to Live or Live to Work?; Connecticut Cafe for Racial Justice
1) Gaza War Continues to Kill as Massive Israeli Protests Blame Netanyahu for Hostage Deaths
James Zogby, co-founder and president of the Arab American Institute, discusses the effort at last week's D…
Eyewitness to Gaza Horror; Racism Drives Trump Support; Former IDF Soldier for Peace; Georgia's Election Deniers Changing State Rules
• US Doctor Shares His Eyewitness Account of Gaza War Horrors
Dr. Ahmad Javed Yousaf, MD, an internist and pediatrician practicing in Benton, Arkansas, who will recount his horrifying experience provi…
Kamala Harris' Economic Policies; Gaza Ceasefire Talks; Sinclair's Right-wing Propaganda on Local TV Channels; Large Progressive Gathering at Chicago DNC
Counterpoint with Scott Harris, Aug. 19, 2024
1) Assessing Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris' Economic Policy Proposals
Matt Bruenig, president of People’s Policy Project, a left wing thinktank, dis…
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I'm Scott Harris, a 30-year radio veteran and host of Counterpoint, a weekly radio program and podcast. Each week my guests and I discuss a wide range of local, national and international political,…