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Corporate Media Coverage of Election 2024 Riven by Journalistic Malpractice

Interview with Rick Perlstein, journalist, historian, contributing editor and board member of In These Times magazine, conducted by Scott Harris

Humanitarian Crisis and Starvation in Gaza Demands Immediate Ceasefire

Interview with Abby Maxman, Oxfam America's president & CEO and Dr. Karameh Hawash-Kuemmerle, assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and member of Doctors Against Genocide, conducted by Scott Harris

Platform Addresses Media Bias in Reporting on Gaza & Palestine

Interview with Lara Witt, editorial Director of Prism, a community of journalists committed to delivering in-depth and thought-provoking news and analysis, conducted by Scott Harris

CT Legislation Supports Local News Reporting with State Ad Revenue

Interview with Cheri Quickmire, executive director of the Connecticut chapter of Common Cause, conducted by Scott Harris

Last Week on Counterpoint

Desegregate Connecticut Addressing State’s Affordable Housing Crisis

Pete Harrison talks about his group's effort to pass H.B. No. 5390, legislation to provide financial incentives for municipalities that adopt certain transit-oriented development...

Alabama’s Supreme Court IVF Ruling a Warning on Christian Extremists Working to Impose Theocracy

Fred Clarkson discusses his views on the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos can be considered children under state law, its reverberations...
Supreme Court takes immunity case

SCOTUS Reviews Trump’s Total Immunity Claim, Effectively Delaying His Jan. 6 Trial Until After...

Thomas Moukawsher discusses the rule of law and election issues covered in his recent Salon.com piece, "With Jan. 6 case, the Supreme Court could...

Ongoing Gaza Catastrophe Rouses Michigan Primary Voters to Send Biden a Message

James Zogby discusses the ongoing Israeli assault and carnage in Gaza, what more can be done to force an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, and the...

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Resistance Roundtable — Feb. 10, 2024 — Gaza Carnage Continues

Henry Lowendorf, chair of the New Haven Peace Council and longtime peace and social justice activist, speaks about the continuing brutal Israeli massacre taking...

Monthly Labor Report #5 — January, 2024 — Year End Review and 2024 Forecast

Michael Zweig, economist, labor historian and author of the just released book "Race, Class and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism," discusses...

Resistance Roundtable — How Do We Win in 2024?

The Resistance panel interviews India Walton, the Black woman who rocked the political establishment in Buffalo, NY, when she beat the centrist mayor in...
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Academia Sustains a Mortal Wound. Will It Survive?

Resistance Roundtable -- Dec. 9, 2023Dr. Irene Mulvey, president of the American Association of University Professors, discusses the onslaught against freedom of speech and...

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