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Posted Jun 07, 2023

Nation’s Poor, Students & Climate Lose in Deal to End GOP Debt Ceiling Extortion

Interview with Will Rice, policy consultant with Americans for Tax Fairness, conducted by Scott Harris

SCOTUS ruling gutting government's ability to Clean Water Act

Posted Jun 07, 2023

Supreme Court Guts EPA Enforcement of Clean Water Act, Endangering Wetlands

Interview with Tarah Heinzen, legal director with Food & Water Watch, conducted by Scott Harris

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Posted Jun 07, 2023

Historic Cold War-Era Peace Boat Sails Again to Demand Nuclear Abolition

Interview with Atomic Vet Hank Bolden, Golden Rule captain Kiko Johnston-Kitazawa and crew member Bill Good, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

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This Week’s Under-reported News Summary – June 7, 2023

Compiled by Bob Nixon

  • UN: Rohingya refugees in ‘state of desperation’
  • Remarkable successes for Minnesota progressives
  • Demands for shakeup at United Food and Commercial Workers union

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Americans for Tax Fairness policy consultant Will Rice assesses the winners & losers in the debt ceiling deal and opposition to making permanent expiring provisions of the 2017 Trump tax cuts that primarily benefit the rich.
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Americans for Tax Fairness policy consultant Will Rice assesses the winners & losers in the debt ceiling deal and opposition to making permanent expiring provisions of the 2017 Trump tax cuts that primarily benefit the rich.
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Americans for Tax Fairness policy consultant Will Rice assesses the winners & losers in the debt ceiling deal and opposition to making permanent expiring provisions of the 2017 Trump tax cuts that primarily benefit the rich.
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Americans for Tax Fairness policy consultant Will Rice assesses the winners & losers in the debt ceiling deal and opposition to making permanent expiring provisions of the 2017 Trump tax cuts that primarily benefit the rich.
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Food & Water Watch Legal Director Tarah Heinzen examines the recent Supreme Court ruling in the Sackett v. EPA case that limits the government’s ability to protect the nation's critical wetlands.
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Food & Water Watch Legal Director Tarah Heinzen examines the recent Supreme Court ruling in the Sackett v. EPA case that limits the government’s ability to protect the nation's critical wetlands.
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Atomic Veteran Hank Bolden, Captain Kiko Johnston-Kitazawa, and crew member Bill Good talk about the voyage of the Cold War-era peace boat “Golden Rule,” sailing again to demand nuclear abolition.
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Atomic Veteran Hank Bolden, Captain Kiko Johnston-Kitazawa, and crew member Bill Good talk about the voyage of the Cold War-era peace boat “Golden Rule,” sailing again to demand nuclear abolition.
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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) Will Rice, Policy Consultant with Americans for Tax Fairness, assesses the impact of the debt ceiling budget deal that passed the House and Senate and was signed into law by President Biden on June 3rd. He'll also discuss how to prevent future GOP debt ceiling extortion - and his group's opposition to the GOP plan to make permanent expiring provisions of the Trump era tax cuts that primarily benefit the wealthiest Americans.

2) Nick Mottern, Co-coordinator of the group BanKillerDrones.org talks about the call for a moratorium on weaponized drone attacks in the Ukraine War issued by a delegation to the International Summit for Peace in Ukraine, organized by the International Peace Bureau in Vienna, June 10th & 11th, supported by Code Pink, the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, Veterans for Peace, the German Drone Campaign and Ban Killer Drones.

3) Tarah Heinzen, Legal Director with the group Food & Water Watch discusses the recent Supreme Court ruling in the Sackett v. EPA case that limits the EPA's ability to protect the nation's wetlands, narrowing the ability of the Clean Water Act to restrict commercial development of sensitive areas - and sets a dangerous precedent for the nation's other environmental regulations.

4) Douglas Lord, President of the Connecticut Library Association and Director of Newtown, CT's Cyrenius H. Booth Library, discusses his group's position on efforts to ban books across Connecticut, the most recent debate on proposed book bans in Newtown's Board of Education, eventually defeated last week -- and the right wing culture war movement to ban books and censor U.S. history across the nation.

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