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Trump’s Illegal Demolition of Federal Government Provokes Constitutional Crisis, Calls for Impeachment

Interview with John Bonifaz, co-founder and president of Free Speech For People, conducted by Scott Harris

gaza water crisis

After Israel Destroyed Gaza’s Civil Infrastructure, Palestinians Face a Water & Environmental Crisis

Interview with Fred Pearce, a contributing writer for Yale Environment 360, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

ukraine russia

Trump’s Ukraine War Peace Overture to Russia Triggers Breach with European Allies

Interview with Melvin Goodman, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and former CIA analyst, conducted by Scott Harris

This Week’s Under-reported News Summary – Feb. 19, 2025

Compiled by Bob Nixon

  • Trump executive order awards refugee status to South African Afrikaners
  • New U.S. protectionism leaves power vacuum for China to fill
  • Red states create their own DOGE task forces

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Here's week 5 of our latest Hey AmeriKKKa! It's Not Normal compilation on Substack

• It’s Not Normal for Homeland Security, amid mass firings and a supposed hunt for government waste, to spend $200 million in taxpayer funds on anti-immigrant ads that repeatedly praise the president:

https://betweenthelinesradionews.substack.com/p/hey-amerikkka-its-not-normal-week-202

#itsnotnormal #TrumpChaos #stopmusk #muskcoup
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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

1) A representative of the group Social Security Works, discusses the House GOP budget resolution that calls for $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid to help pay for extending the 2017 tax cuts, primarily benefiting the wealthiest Americans. They'll also talk about the group's campaign to educate and mobilize Americans to oppose this proposal that will eliminate millions of Americans' access to affordable health care.

2) Elizabeth Jacobs, Professor Emeritus, Epidemiology Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at the University of Arizona discusses rising concern about newly confirmed Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr's agenda at this sprawling agency, and the damage his anti-science views could inflict on the federal health response to contagious diseases such as measles and bird flu, federally funded research on new drugs and food safety, as well as supervision of Medicare, Medicaid, CHIPS and the ACA.

3) Maria J. Stephan, Co-Lead and Chief Organizer with the Horizons Project is the author and editor of five books on authoritarianism and civil resistance, including the award-winning book, "Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict." She talks about her recent article, "We are stronger than we think," and issues related to the rising protest movement opposing the Trump/ Musk agenda, the power of collective defiance and how to make cruelty backfire.

4) Mike German, a fellow with the Liberty and National Security program at the Brennan Center for Justice, talks about his new book, "Policing White Supremacy The Enemy Within," a former FBI agent’s urgent call for law enforcement to prioritize far-right violence and end tolerance for police racism, and an increasingly dangerous situation where Donald Trump and his administration have embraced white supremacist and armed militia groups committing political violence on his behalf.

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IT's NOT NORMAL FOR THE US ATTORNEY GENERAL to create what she is calling a "Weaponization Working Group" within the Department of Justice. Former assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Andrew McCarthy called it both unnecessary and highly problematic due to her proposed appointee, suggested the new AG is setting herself up for an avalanche of controversy based upon potential charges of unethical legal behavior and conflict of interest.

That led him to note that Bondi will head up the group-which will be three former Donald Trump lawyers or tied to his "Stop the Steal" efforts.