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) Peter Kornbluh, director of the Cuba Documentation Project at the National Security Archive in Washington, D.C., and co-author, with William M. LeoGrande, of Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana. Kornbluh, also the author of The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability, talks about his recent Nation Magazine article, "The CIA Goes to Cuba," and what the Trump regime may be planning after its indictment of Raúl Castro in Florida, possibly kidnapping the aging Cuban leader as they did with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January -- or a U.S. military invasion.

2) Ben Grazda, Advocacy Manager with Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Reporters Sans Frontières summarizes RSF's World Press Freedom Index tracking the decline in freedom of the press around the world, and the steep decline here in the U.S. He'll examine some of the long term challenges facing American journalists including: economic pressure leading to the disappearance of many local news outlets, concentration of ownership, political attacks on government critics, and the January 2026 FBI raid on Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's home which sets a dangerous precedent for the future prosecution of journalists doing their jobs.

3) Rep. Josh Elliott of Connecticut's 88th District representing residents of Hamden's Spring Glen, Whitneyville, parts of Centerville and Shepherd Hill neighborhoods. Rep. Elliott, who serves as Deputy House Speaker and Majority Caucus Co-Chair, won 25% of the delegates at the state's Democratic Convention last month, clearing the 15% threshold to force an August primary election against incumbent Democratic Governor Ned Lamont. Lamont won the party's official endorsement with about 75% of the delegate vote. Rep. Elliott will talk about his candidacy, the policies he's advocating, and his strategy to win the August 11th primary.

4) Sam Rosenthal Political Director of Roots Action talks about his recent commentary, "Establishment Democrats Still Don’t Get Why They Lost in 2024," and the critical importance -- in this moment of Donald Trump's multifront violent attack on U.S. democracy -- of having a viable political party to stand as an alternative to Trump and the Republican Party's authoritarian project.

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 Appears Unable to Escape his Own Iran War Quagmire

David Faris, Professor of Political Science at Roosevelt University and author of "The Kids Are All Left: How Young Voters Will Unite America," talks about the issues examined in his recent Nation Magazine article, "Why Ending the Iran War May Be a Never-Ending Story, As Trump’s “excursion” veers into quagmire territory," he may just try to walk away amid a host of new distractions."

2) Trump Created the MAGA Antiwar Opposition to his Own War

Salon columnist Heather Digby Parton, who writes Digby’s Hullabaloo blog, discusses her recent commentary, "Trump’s anti-war claims blow up in his face after Iran fiasco: Opposition to the president's war with Iran among Gen Z MAGA members could help create positive political change," re: U.S. foreign policy, political history, and a possible new post-Trump anti-war re-alignment.

3) Trump's Beijing Summit Reveals China's Rise, US Decline

Mel Goodman, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and a professor of government at Johns Hopkins University. Goodman, a former CIA analyst and author of "Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA," discusses the issues raised in his recent Counterpunch piece, "Sino-American Relations and the “Thucydides Trap.”

4) The Ominous Signals Explaining Why Trump, GOP Appear to Believe They'll Never Face Accountability

Paul Street, an independent radical-democratic policy researcher, journalist, historian and author of, "This Happened Here: Amerikaners, Neoliberals, and the Trumping of America," talks about his recent Counterpunch.org commentary, "Why Trump Is So Indifferent to Public Opinion in an Election Year."

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) Dan Vicuña, Senior Policy Director for Voting and Fair Representation at Common Cause, talks about the consequences of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Louisiana v. Callais case that eviscerated the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the disenfranchisement of millions of people of color, and ways in which our nation can work toward achieving a multiracial democracy.

2) Annie Laurie Gaylor co-founder and co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, and author of three books including, “Woe to Women: The Bible Tells Me So,” talks about the tax payer funded Trump regime religious rally in Washington, D.C., “Rededicate 250,” that featured white Christian nationalist rhetoric from speakers including House Speaker Mike Johnson, Franklin Graham, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and others, that the FFRF criticized as an “unprecedented and shocking mix of church and state.”

3) Melanie D'Arrigo, Executive Director with the Campaign for New York Health talks about the campaign dedicated to passing and implementing universal, single-payer health care in New York State. Supporters of the New York Health Act say that New Yorkers will pay less and get more by cutting out waste and using the negotiation power of 20 million New Yorkers. New Yorkers will save billions of dollars by not paying rising premiums, deductibles, co-pays, out-of-network charges, and long-term care costs.

4) John Miksad, a member of Veterans for Peace and World Beyond War, talks about a coalition of groups sponsoring 2 events in Norwalk, CT on Memorial Day, May 25th to promote peace, honor the fallen and support our current troops by keeping our soldiers out of harm’s way in endless disastrous wars, including Trump's disastrous war on Iran, his deployment of the U.S. military to attack civilian boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, and his oil blockade of Cuba.