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) US-Israeli War on Iran Escalates, as Erratic Trump Appears to Look for Exit

Raed Jarrar, Advocacy Director with the group Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) founded by Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi before his assassination, discusses the current state of the U.S., Israeli war on Iran, escalation of the regional conflict destroying fossil fuel infrastructure and disrupting energy supplies, the prospect of the deployment of U.S. troops to Iran, and the consequences for international law.

2) Heritage Foundation, Trump Regime's 'Project 2026' Targets Women's Rights

Katherine Spillar, Executive Director of the Feminist Majority Foundation, and Executive Editor, Ms. Magazine to discuss your Ms. Magazine article, "Project 2026 Declares Open War on Women's Rights," with a focus on Trump administration policies' impact on women, and voter suppression legislation designed to disenfranchise millions of women across the country in the 2026 midterm election.

3) Another US Oil War in Iran Spikes Energy Prices, Disrupts Supply Chains; Aggravates the Climate Crisis

Lois Parshley, Climate Research Director with Public Citizen’s Climate Program.… will examine the spike in energy prices, and interruption in the delivery of energy supplies due to Trump's Iran war, creating hardship for vulnerable populations, and strategies for the world escaping this cycle of endless oil wars that has caused so much violence and destruction — and the catastrophic contribution to the climate crisis!

4) Nuestra América Convoy Arrives in Cuba, Challenging Trump's Oil Blockade

Andy Shallal owner of the Busboys and Poets bookstores and progressive political cultural hub in Washington, D.C., talks about the Trump regime's blockade of oil to Cuba, the impact on the Cuban people, and the Nuestra América Convoy to Cuba, the recently delivered a shipment of 6,300 pounds of critical humanitarian aid to the island nation by air and sea.

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) Steven Levitsky, David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies at Harvard University and co-author with Daniel Ziblatt, of "How Democracies Die," and "Tyranny of the Minority," talks about his recent article, "The Price of American Authoritarianism," assessing Donald Trump's first 12 months back in the White House and the threat he now poses to the 2026 midterm election, U.S. democracy and our republic.

2) Craig Mokhiber, former director of the New York Office of the United Nation's High Commissioner for Human Rights until he resigned in protest due to the Gaza genocide, discusses the catastrophic war launched against Iran by Trump and Netanyahu, the further dismantling of international law, and the resulting death and economic chaos engulfing the region, addressed in his recent article, "Understanding the U.S. and Israel’s illegal war on Iran."

3) Justin Glawe, an independent journalist and editor of the American Doom newsletter, discusses his recent article, "Inside the FBI raid in Georgia — and what it really means," and his reports on the Trump regime plan to nationalize the 2026 midterm election, in a clear effort to employ voter suppression to prevent a Democratic Party takeover of the House and U.S. Senate.

4) Anna Gomez, the lone Democrat serving on the Federal Communications Commission, talks about her concerns regarding the concentration of media ownership, FCC censorship and interference in the exercise of First Amendment right to free speech, the future of public media and the expansion of broadband access.

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 Has No Clear Objectives in his Lawless and Chaotic War with Iran

Mel Goodman, senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, a professor of government at Johns Hopkins University and a former CIA analyst, whose latest book is titled American Carnage: The Wars of Donald Trump, shares his views on the motivation and conduct of the U.S. and Israeli war on Iran, as well as the short and long term consequences for international law, the world economy and the American empire.

2. "It’s Time to Make Some Thunder:" Bishop William Barber Responds to Trump-GOP Midterm Election Gerrymandering Scheme!

Excerpt of speech by Bishop William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, president and senior lecturer at Repairers of the Breach, and founding director of the Center for Public Theology & Public Policy at Yale Divinity School. In this November 2, 2025 speech he talks about the Moral Mondays coalition response to President Trump’s effort to gerrymander the First Congressional district in North Carolina, and efforts to rig the 2026 midterm election nationwide.

3. Trump Follows Israel Into Catastrophic War on Iran, Netanyahu Calls the Shots

Branko Marcetic, a Jacobin staff writer and the author of "Yesterday’s Man: The Case Against Joe Biden" talks about his recent commentaries, "Trump Is in Way Over His Head in Iran," and "The US Is Fighting Israel’s War on Iran," and "US Military Aid to Israel Is a National Security Risk."

4. CT Working Families Party and Progressive Coalition Legislative Agenda Includes Immigrant Rights Bills and Increasing taxes on the Wealthy Sarah Ganong, State Director of the Connecticut Working Families Party, discusses WFP's CT legislative agenda, which includes standing up for immigrant rights, advocating for an equitable state budget with higher taxes on the wealthy, and demanding fair schedules for workers in hospitality, retail, and food service jobs. She'll also talk about statewide groups organizing for the March 28th anti-Trump, pro-democracy No Kings Day protests in CT and nationally.