Counterpoint with Scott Harris

By 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.

Episode Date
Counterpoint 07-07-25 Scott Harris discusses: the dire health impacts of Trump-GOP's federal budget; New ICE budget increased 365% prelude to a police state; DOJ hires indicted Jan 6th insurrectionist; IRIS CT serving refugees adapts to new mission
Jul 08, 2025
Counterpoint 06-30-25 Scott Harris talks w Sarah Kendzior on Trump mafia state attack on democracy; Why Evangelicals want war with Iran; Zohran Mamdani's surprise win in NYC's mayoral primary; The consequences of SCOTUS ruling on birthright citizenship
Jul 01, 2025
Counterpoint 06-23-25 Scott Harris discusses: Trump's Bombing of Iran an Echo of Disastrous Iraq War; Trump & MAGA's Embrace of Political Violence Kills; Democrats Must Adopt Progressive Agenda to Protect Democracy; Danbury CT Activists Counter ICE Raids
Jun 24, 2025
Counterpoint 06-16-25 Scott Harris discusses: Israel Iran conflict risks regional war; RFK Jr spreads dangerous public health disinformation; No Kings protest could be a turning point in opposition to Trump fascism; Trump politicizes US military
Jun 17, 2025
Counterpoint 06-09-25 Scott Harris discusses: Israel's seizure of Gaza bound aid ship violates international law; June 14th No Kings National AntiTrump protests; Trump attacks LGBTQ community; Imposition of insurrection Act would impose Trump dictatorship
Jun 10, 2025
Counterpoint 06-02-25 Scott Harris discusses: Groups demand Dems effectively challenge Trump's autocracy; Project Esther equates dissent w terrorism; Group files human rights complaint against US for complicity w Gaza genocide; CT Trust Act Strengthened
Jun 03, 2025
Counterpoint 05-26-25 Scott Harris discusses: The deadly impact of Trump & GOP House budget bill; Trump's white supremacy on full display in meeting w S. African Pres.; Veterans fast demanding humanitarian aid for Gaza; CT union protest for school funding
May 27, 2025
Counterpoint 05-19-25 Scott Harris discusses: Outcome of Trump Visit to Gulf Monarchies; Growing Opposition to Extreme Trump GOP Medicaid SNAP Budget Cuts; Bill Targets Nonprofits Not Aligned with MAGA Agenda; New Book Examines Gaza Genocide, Palestine Israel History
May 20, 2025
Counterpoint 05-12-25 Scott Harris discusses: a Catholic Worker activist's appeal to Pope Leo to visit Gaza; Challenging Trump's effort to eliminate birthright citizenship; 100 Ways Trump Has Hurt Workers; Examining "The Green New Deal from Below"
May 13, 2025
Counterpoint 05-05-25 Scott Harris discusses: Ralph Nader Assesses Trump's 100-Day Attack on Democracy; Israel's Gaza Food Blockade Triggers Famine, Hospitalizes 9,000 Children for Acute Malnutrition; Yale bans Pro-Palestinian Campus Group Further Chilling Free Speech; HHS Secretary RFK Jr. Pushes Vaccine Disinformation and Defunds Critical Public Health Research
May 06, 2025
Counterpoint 04-28-25 Scott Harris discusses: Assessing Trump's Disastrous First 100 Days; Trump Deports US Citizen Children, Arrests Wisconsin Judge; Trump Policies Risk Dangerous Global Nuclear Proliferation; Opus Dei, Trump's MAGA Movement and Pope Francis' Catholic Church
Apr 29, 2025
Counterpoint 04-21-25 Scott Harris discusses: Campaign Prepares for Trump's Invocation of the Insurrection Act; Effective Resistance to Trump's War on Democracy; Assessing Corporate Media's Coverage of Trump 2.0; Groups Petition Democrats to Call an Emergency Meeting to Design Response to Trump's Authoritarian Coup
Apr 22, 2025
Counterpoint 04-14-25 Scott Harris discusses: Trump regime's dangerous suppression of student free speech; Federal workers could lead new Trump resistance; How your tax dollars were spent in 2024; After Trump tariff pause, Senators demand investigation of Trump inner circle for insider trading
Apr 15, 2025
Counterpoint 04-07-25 Scott Harris discusses: The disastrous impact of Trump's international tariffs on US economic inequality; Trump resistance movement and the history of general strikes; Interviews w NYC Hands Off protesters; CT prepares for Trump education budget cuts
Apr 08, 2025
Counterpoint 03-31-25 Scott Harris discusses: Confronting the Reality of Trump's Repugnant White Supremacist Agenda; Trump-Musk Sabotage of Social Security Designed to Hasten the System's Privatization; ICE Attempt to Deport International Students, First Step to Repress Free Speech for All; Trump's Unconstitutional Executive Order to Change US Voting System Would Disenfranchise Millions
Apr 01, 2025
Counterpoint 03-24-25 Scott Harris discusses: Trump triggers US constitutional crisis; Rightwing domination of social media platforms disinformation; Bernie Sanders rallies Trump opponents nationwide; CT activists demand state release video recording of J'Allen Jones prison death
Mar 25, 2025
Counterpoint 03-17-25 Scott Harris discusses: Trump Suppression of Free Speech Pretext for Deportation Palestinian Student Activist; Trump Musk Social Security Attack Could Disrupt Benefit Checks; Is the Trump Recession Coming; New Book Examines Perception of Racism and Sexism
Mar 18, 2025
Counterpoint 03-10-25 Scott Harris discusses: Trump's assault on democracy mirrors other authoritarian regimes; National 40 day boycott of Target launched over store's elimination of DEI policy; Trump's erratic tariff policy ignites trade war, Wall St. downturn; CCAG's CT 2025 legislative agenda
Mar 11, 2025
Counterpoint 03-03-25: Scott Harris discusses Democratic Party's weak opposition to Trump coup; Trump intimidates, threatens freedom of the press; Students resist Trump elimination of campus DEI; FBI & local police turn blind eye to white supremacist violence
Mar 04, 2025
Counterpoint 02-24-25: Scott Harris discusses discusses the GOP attempt to cut $880 billion from Medicaid; RFK Jr's attack on US public health policy; Tactics to resist Trump-Musk coup; Bernie Sanders attacks Trump Musk Oligarchy
Feb 25, 2025
Counterpoint 02-17-25: Scott Harris discusses Trump's illegal demolition of federal government provokes constitutional crisis calls for impeachment; Democrats muddled response to Trump-Musk coup; Trump's Russia Ukraine war peace overture creates rift with European allies; Trump OMB Director Russell Vought, Architect of Trump-Musk Demolition of Federal Government
Feb 18, 2025
Counterpoint 02-10-25: Scott Harris discusses Trump's criminal plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza; Elon Musk's Hackers illegally Takeover Federal Agencies; Trump targets Education Dept for elimination; Tens of thousands oppose Trump in 50501 nationwide protests
Feb 11, 2025
Counterpoint 02-03-25: Scott Harris discusses Trump's vicious white supremacist policy agenda; RFJ Jr. endangers US public heath; Trump GOP move to extend tax cuts for the rich austerity for everyone else; Voter suppression key to Trump's election win
Feb 04, 2025
Counterpoint 01-27-25: Scott Harris discusses Trump's Pardon of 1,500 Jan 6 insurrectionists supports political violence; Challenging Trump's mass deportations; Trump, Panama, Greenland and US imperialism; Alarming responses to Elon Musk's Nazi salute
Jan 28, 2025
Counterpoint 01-20-25: Scott Harris discusses Trump's inauguration and resistance to his authoritarian repressive agenda; the global climate crisis; the Israel Hamas Gaza ceasefire; Speeches and interviews from the Jan 18, 2025 anti-Trump People's March in Washington DC
Jan 21, 2025
Counterpoint 01-13-25: Scott Harris discusses The consequences of Trump's plan to pardon January 6 Insurrectionists; Facebook dumps platform fact-checking amplifying Trumps lies; LA wildfires, climate crisis and the future of public policy; Amazon Labor Union's Christmas strike a success
Jan 14, 2025
Counterpoint 01-06-25: Scott Harris discusses On 4th anniversary of January 6th Insurrection democracy is on the ropes; Jimmy Carter's hidden conservative legacy; Trump threatens US renewable energy future; Danger ahead under trump foreign policy
Jan 07, 2025
Counterpoint 12-30-24: Scott Harris discusses Trump Will Use Unitary Executive Theory to Impose Tryanny; New Campaign Revives Debate on ERA; World Unwilling to Stop Palestinian Genocide; Pope Francis Calls for Global South Debt Cancellation
Dec 31, 2024
Counterpoint 12-23-24: Scott Harris discusses white supremacist hate groups' threat as Trump takes office; The UN and Israel's violation of international law; Trump GOP demonization of trans youth; Philadelphia protest against Trump mass deportation
Dec 24, 2024
Counterpoint 12.16.24: Scott Harris discusses Ralph Nader's take on 2024 election outcome, CEO murder and anger at for-profit healthcare, US broken news media promotes disinformation, Trump's frighteningly bizarre cabinet nominees
Dec 17, 2024
Many Unanswered Questions re: the Rebels who Toppled the Syrian Regime; Courageous South Koreans Block a Military Dictatorship; Trump 2.0 Corruption and Ethics Violations Ahead; Remembering 2012 Sandy Hook Mass Shooting Victims
Dec 10, 2024
Eight ways to respond to Trump victory; Why Trump voters should understand Americans who oppose their convicted felon president; Trump plans more tax cuts for the rich; CT groups prepare for Trump's mass deportations
Dec 03, 2024
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
Nov 26, 2024
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
Nov 19, 2024
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
Nov 12, 2024
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
Nov 05, 2024
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
Oct 29, 2024
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
Oct 22, 2024
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
Oct 15, 2024
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
Oct 08, 2024
Israel's Provoking Hezbollah into Wider War; GOP Georgia Election Deniers' Sabotage; Trumpism's Toxic Election Issue: Immigration; Blinken's Reckless Action in Ukraine
Oct 01, 2024
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
Sep 24, 2024
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
Sep 17, 2024
'The Inflection Election: Democracy or Fascism'; ACLU v. University Crackdown on Gaza Protests; Climate Future: Apocalypse or Utopia; Portland, Maine Divests from Israel
Sep 10, 2024
Massive Protests Blame Netanyahu for Hostage Deaths; Election Campaign Threats to Democracy; Work to Live or Live to Work?; Connecticut Cafe for Racial Justice
Sep 03, 2024
Eyewitness to Gaza Horror; Racism Drives Trump Support; Former IDF Soldier for Peace; Georgia's Election Deniers Changing State Rules
Aug 29, 2024
Kamala Harris' Economic Policies; Gaza Ceasefire Talks; Sinclair's Right-wing Propaganda on Local TV Channels; Large Progressive Gathering at Chicago DNC
Aug 20, 2024
Coming soon: Counterpoint with Scott Harris
Aug 19, 2024