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China diplomacy in Russia-Ukraine War?

Can Chinese Diplomacy Help End the Ukraine War?

Interview with retired U.S. Army Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson, former chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, conducted by Scott Harris

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DOJ Fails to Investigate Trump Scheme to Steal 2020 Election Software

Interview with Susan Greenhalgh, senior advisor on election security with Free Speech For People, conducted by Scott Harris

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23 More Stop Cop City Activists Charged with Domestic Terrorism

Interview with Ayla King, activist arrested at Stop Cop City action, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

This Week’s Under-reported News Summary – May 24, 2023

Compiled by Bob Nixon

  • Palestinians commemorate 75 years since the Naqba
  • Brazil’s campaign to expel illegal miners turns violent
  • In debt ceiling standoff, GOP pushes food stamps work requirements

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Biden’s Invocation of 14th Amendment Would Neutralize GOP Debt Ceiling Threat 

When Republicans took control of the U.S. House of Representatives last November, it was a given that the extremist wing of the GOP would...
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After Title 42, Biden’s Policies Create New Obstacles for US Asylum Seekers

May 11 marked the end of Title 42, a public heath regulation put in place by the Trump administration in 2020 that excluded people...
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During his CNN town hall TV appearance on May 10, Donald Trump repeated the same lies and insults he’s been spewing since he lost...

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• Over 30,000 people in Canada’s western provinces were forced to flee their homes, after an outbreak of spring wildfires. Alberta’s Premier Danielle Smith...

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As CNN Swerves Right: Refuse Fascism!

The Resistance Roundtable panel speaks with Paul Street (www.paulstreet.org), independent progressive policy researcher, award-winning journalist, historian and author of many books including This Happened Here and They Rule: The 1% v. Democracy.
Paul deconstructs the threat posed by Trump, the Republican Party and a craven corporate media as the nation staggers forward toward the 2024 election.

From the National Priorities Project @natpriorities: "The Warfare State: How Funding for Militarism Compromises Our Welfare" ... and affects the #DebtCeiling debate

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The Education Myth, Neo Liberalism and 1000 Points of Fascism

Professor Jon Shelton, author of The Education Myth: How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy, discusses his theory that neoliberalism has fused competition and meritocracy...
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The War in Ukraine and the War Against Women at Home

Today's show feature a focus on two potentially cataclysmic issues: the War in Ukraine and the continuing war against women's reproductive rights at home....

Policing in America, a conversation with professor Gerald Horne

In the wake of the Memphis police murder of Tyre Nichols, Dr. Gerald Horne, professor of history and African American Studies at the University...

Whither our economy in 2023? And what are the root causes of Inflation?

Dr. Jack Rasmus, professor emeritus in Economics at St. Mary's College, gives his assessment of the U.S. economy in 2022 and offers his predictions...

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Counterpoint, 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) Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of Italian and History New York University examines Ron DeSantis' official "botched" launch of his presidential campaign with Elon Musk -- and his record of making Florida a laboratory for fascist culture war policy, his weaponization of the law, his laser focus on suppressing educators and students -- and corporate media's obsession on DeSantis' "lack of charisma," while normalizing his white supremacist, authoritarian policy agenda.

2) Lindsay Koshgarian, Program Director with the National Priorities Project, discusses her group's new report: “The Warfare State: How Funding for Militarism Compromises our Welfare,” and how the Pentagon's massive, ever growing budget relates to recent negotiations over the debt ceiling and the U.S. federal budget.

3) Adrienne Pine, Visiting Professor of Anthropology and Social Change with the School of Consciousness and Transformation at the California Institute of Integral Studies discusses her view of the Biden administration's post Title 42 immigration policies, with a focus on the treatment of Venezuelans and Cubans seeking asylum in America, fleeing nations that have been the target of harsh U.S. economic sanctions.

4) Joshua Epstein, a New College of Florida student who will be graduating in 2024 and Tamara Solum, a retired Sarasota business owner, teacher and education advocate whose daughter Kari Solum graduated from New College in 2020. They'll discuss the Save New College campaign, recent graduation speakers, the wider significance of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suppression of educators and students now that he's officially running for president.

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
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Trump’s first interview after losing the 2020 election was with NYU Trustee and Fox host Maria Bartiromo. Before the interview even took place Bartiromo ran the questions by The White House. During it, she set Trump up to spread conspiracies by noting, “you’ve said many times that this electio...
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Counterpoint, 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) Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, U.S. Army, (Ret.) who served as Chief of Staff to Gen. Colin Powell (2002-05) talks about the Eisenhower Media Network's recent full-page ad in the New York Times, calling for a diplomatic end to the Russia-Ukraine war.

2) Corynne McSherry Legal Director with the Electronic Frontier Foundation discusses her group's position on the dangers of artificial intelligence re: privacy, disinformation and policing, and what if anything should be done at the federal level to regulate this emerging powerful technology.

3) Susan Greenhalgh, Senior Advisor on Election Security with Free Speech For People examines the multi-state plot by former President Donald Trump's operatives to access and copy voting system software in the 2020 election - and her recent Slate.com article, "Trump Was Implicated in a Vote Machine Theft. Why Isn’t DOJ Investigating?"

4) Helen Jaccard, Veterans For Peace Golden Rule Project Manager & John Miksad, founder and coordinator of the Fairfield County CT chapter of the group World Beyond War, talk about the Veterans for Peace Golden Rule Project which recovered and restored the original Golden Rule peace ship, that set sail in 1958 to stop nuclear weapons tests in the Marshall Islands. That journey inspired the many peace makers and peace ships that followed. The reborn Golden Rule is sailing once more, and stopping in Norwalk, CT May 29 to June 2 to participate in a series of events that show that nuclear abolition is possible, and that bravery and tenacity can overcome militarism.

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
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When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted.
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"The Supreme Court probably wouldn’t enforce any attempt by the Republicans to force Biden to violate his own office by defaulting on the national debt in the first place. And if they did, they would, without a doubt, strike the debt ceiling.

"So, again, I’ve been urging that Biden call the bluff of the Republicans and simply ignore the debt ceiling."— Robert C. Hockett, Cornell University law professor #DebtCeiling #fiscalterrorism
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Worth a watch!
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