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Counterpoint November 2, 2024

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Many Counterpoint interviews are excerpted for broadcast on the nationally syndicated “Between The Lines” radio newsmagazine at Btlonline.org

Eight Ways to Respond to Trump’s Election Victory Over the Next 4 Years

Interview with David Pepper, former chair of the Ohio Democratic party, publisher of the Pepperspectives substack newsletter and author of "2025," conducted by Scott Harris

Why Trump Voters Should Better Understand Americans Who Oppose Their Convicted Felon President

Interview with Wajahat Ali, author of “Go Back to Where You Came From,” and creator of The Left Hook Substack page, conducted by Scott Harris

Surprise: Trump Plans More Tax Cuts for the Rich, Budget Cuts for the Rest of Us

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

Connecticut Groups Prepare to Resist Trump Mass Deportations

Interview with John Lugo, community organizing director with Unidad Latina en Accion, and Carolina Bortoletto, co-founder of CT Students for a Dream, conducted by Scott Harris

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Post-Election Perspectives: What We Need to Know

Four commentaries on the post-election landscape:
-Michael Zweig, economist and labor historian, talks about the role Labor should play in an anti-fascist front.
-Kica Matos, director of the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), warns about the coming attacks on immigrants.
-Mel Goodman, former CIA analyst, discusses the ramifications of a second Trump regime on US foreign policy.
-Chris Vials, professor of English at UCONN-Storrs, discusses the phenomenon of fascism and its implications for our nation.
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Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine4 days ago
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) David Pepper, former chair of the Ohio Democratic party, publisher of the 'Pepperspectives' substack newsletter and author of, "2025," "Saving Democracy," and "Laboratories of Autocracy." He'll discuss his post-election column, "Resolve: 8 Reasons That Keep Me Going," and analysis of Trump's 2025 agenda and what effective resistance would look like.

2) Wajahat Ali, author of “Go Back to Where You Came From,” and creator of The Left Hook Substack page, discusses his timely, incisive column, "When Will Trump Voters Be Asked To Reach Out and Understand The Rest of Us?" - and other issues related to the danger to U.S. democracy posed by Trump regime 2.0.

3) Will Rice, a consultant with Americans for Tax Fairness, discusses the group's work raising the alarm about what Trump and the Republicans have planned to make the U.S. tax system even more unfair for working families, with deeper tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and corporations -- as they build a government captured by right wing billionaires and oligarchs.

4) John Lugo, Community Organizing Director with United Latina en Accion discusses President-elect Trump's demonization of migrants, and preparations local organizations are making to defend the state's immigrant residents in the face of Trump's campaign pledge to conduct the largest mass deportation of undocumented immigrants in U.S. history. He’ll also address what CT State government and CT Governor Ned Lamont can do to Trump-proof the state.

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A Giving Tuesday message from Between The Lines' Executive Producer Scott Harris:

For my birthday and Giving Tuesday this Dec. 3, 2024, I'm raising funds for Squeaky Wheel Productions, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) distributor of our 33-year-old media project Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine -- and your contribution will make an impact, whether you donate $5 or $500. Every little bit helps.

One critically important takeaway from the 2024 election is that disinformation and misinformation was a determining factor in how millions of voters chose a presidential candidate to support. Blind polls have found that a strong majority of voters reject Donald Trump and the Republican party's authoritarian, austerity agenda driven by hate, fear and scapegoating the most vulnerable people in our nation, be they immigrants or transgender kids.

Too many voters now rely on right-wing propaganda outlets, podcasts and social media for their news, leading millions of our neighbors to vote against their own economic self-interest and personal moral conscience.

The information war now underway in the U.S. will determine whether or not our nation's multi-racial democracy survives!

As we prepare for the dark days ahead under the next four years of Trump Regime 2.0, Between The Lines remains committed to amplifying the voices of progressive activists, journalists and scholars to counter the extremist right-wing disinformation machine that now dominates our broken media system, and clearly influences the outcome of U.S. elections.

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What's behind Trump's bizarre, unqualified Cabinet nominations? Could it be as Sara Kendzior says, that Trump & his oligarchic allies want the US to collapse, so they can then loot & pillage akin to Russia after the Soviet Union collapsed?

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https://btlonline.org/merrick-garlands-delay-in-prosecuting-trump-laid-groundwork-to-establish-his-mafia-state/

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