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Counterpoint April 14, 2025

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As Israel’s Gaza Ethnic Cleansing Continues, Trump Suppresses Dissent, Free Speech on Campuses

Interview with Fawzia Afzal-Khan, visiting professor in gender and sexuality studies at Princeton University, conducted by Scott Harris

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Federal Workers Could Effectively Lead the New Trump Resistance

Interview with Micah Sifry, a writer, editor, and organizer, conducted by Scott Harris

How Your Federal Tax Dollars Were Spent in 2024

Interview with Lindsay Koshgarian, program director of the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, conducted by Scott Harris

After Trump Tariff Pause, Senators Demand Investigation of His Inner Circle for Insider Trading

Interview with Jeff Hauser, executive director of the Revolving Door Project, conducted by Scott Harris

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The Disastrous Impact of Trump’s International Tariffs on U.S. Economic Inequality

Omar Ocampo discusses his recent article, "‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs Will Concentrate Wealth Even More,” the repercussions of Donald Trump's decision to impose massive international...
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The Trump Resistance Movement and the History of General Strikes

Fred Glass discusses his recent article, "Best Guess: How Do We Defeat the Fascists?" and the history of general strikes and United Auto Workers'...
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The Largest Day of Protests Yet in Donald Trump’s Second Presidency

The protests, which were organized in more than 1,400 cities and towns across the US, Canada, and Europe sent a message to Trump, Musk...

Connecticut Prepares for Trump Federal Education Budget Cuts

Mary Yordon talks about the massive April 5th "Hands Off" protests across the U.S., and the Stamford, CT protest where she spoke in opposition...

Special Feature

Resistance Roundtable: The Fight to Save the First Amendment with Dr. Isaac Kamola

Dr. Isaac Kamola, director of the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom with the American Association of University Professors, discusses the Trump regime's juggernaut attacks on free speech at colleges and universities and the budding collaboration with labor to create a united front against this assault.
And Brian Timko, communications and volunteer coordinator with Unidad Latina en Accion (ULA), talks about the demonstration and boycotts directed at Avelo Airlines (New Haven, CT) which just signed a contract to fly deportation flights for the Department of Homeland Security.
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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) Fawzia Afzal-Khan, visiting professor in gender and sexuality studies, Princeton University, discusses her recent article, "Student and Faculty Repression on US Campuses: the Palestine Exception," relating to the reported 600 international students who have had their visas revoked by the Trump State Dept., and the preliminary ruling by a judge in Louisiana that the Trump regime can proceed with its deportation of Palestinian Columbia University graduate student, and Green Card holder Mahmoud Khalil.

2) Micah Sifry, is a writer, editor and organizer with nearly forty years of experience covering politics, technology and international affairs, who is currently working on a novel and writing a weekly newsletter on democracy, movements, organizing and tech called The Connector. Micah will discuss his recent New York Times article, "A Different Kind of Anti-Trump Resistance is Brewing," and issues related to Trump/Musk's mass firing of tens of thousands of federal government workers.

3) Lindsay Koshgarian, Program Director of the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies talks about her group's latest annual analysis, the 2025 Tax Day Receipt, highlighting exactly where Americans' 2024 income taxes went and what those numbers say about our national spending priorities. Overall, in 2024, the average taxpayer contributed $3,707 per person for weapons and war – the equivalent of the price of 628 dozen eggs – including war and the Pentagon, weapons contractors, and aid to foreign militaries.

4) Jeff Hauser, Executive Director of the Revolving Door Project discusses growing concern that people in Trump's inner circle may have had knowledge of his changing tariff policy, allowing for insider trading -- combined with the fact the SEC is dismantling a key tool in collecting trading data, the Consolidated Audit Trail, that impairs regulators’ ability to understand suspicious activity.

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EXCERPT: "Trump argues that Europeans and other advanced economies 'owe' the United States for past and current trade imbalances, because he does not understand the basics of global trade. If Americans buy more from another country than that country buys from us, Trump registers that as proof that we are being 'ripped off.' It’s a paranoia-driven claim that borders on gibberish."

Trump's belief about tariffs and trade imbalance is either simple stupidity and ignorance about the fact that we are now living in a very globally inter-connected economy due to advanced technology that relies on the goodwill and predictability of our trading partners OR he has dementia and is still relying on a 1950s belief system and old paradigm of "exploit of scarce resources" and "survival of the fittest." Time for him to STEP DOWN.

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-dementia-2671761985/ #TrumpDementia #dementia #outoftouch
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Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine1 week ago
This is absolutely shockingly insane! From the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWhv-06DNjE #TrumpTariffs #TrumpTariffSTUPIDITY
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The bizarre way Trump’s team calculated reciprocal tariffs | About That
After much internet speculation, the White House confirmed the math behind U.S. President Donald Trump's reciprocal tariffs. Andrew Chang breaks down the for...
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine1 week ago
Who will be richer? Certainly not the American consumers, who'll be paying the cost of the tariffs, as the importers pass the cost on to them with higher prices on their products. #sostupid #TrumpTariffs #FireNavarro