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Posted Mar 17, 2025
Trump Suppression of Free Speech Used as Unconstitutional Pretext to Deport Palestinian Student Activist
Interview with Sam Carliner, a journalist who focuses on US imperialism and the climate crisis, conducted by Scott Harris
Last Week on Counterpoint
Trump’s Ongoing Assault on Democracy Closely Follows the Authoritarian Playbook
Jason Stanley shares his views on the Trump regime's unconstitutional attempt to eliminate entire federal agencies, the mass firing of government employees, the witch...
Target’s Elimination of the Chain’s DEI Policy Provokes Nationwide 40-Day Boycott
Senior Pastor Jamal-Harrison Bryant discusses his call for a 40-day "fast" from shopping at Target stores during Lent starting on March 5, in response...
Trump’s Erratic On-Again, Off-Again Tariff Policy Born of Desperation
Richard D. Wolff examines Donald Trump's imposition of tariffs on Canada, Mexico, China, Europe and other nations; the impact on the U.S. economy, as...
Connecticut Citizen Action Group’s 2025 Legislative Agenda Explained
Tom Swan discusses CCAG's priorities and goals in the current state legislative session, as well as initiatives a coalition of groups in the state...
Special Feature
Resistance Roundtable: International Women’s Day Special with Medea Benjamin and Francesca Rheannon
A conversation with Medea Benjamin, co-director of Code Pink, and Francesca Rheannon, host of A Writer's Voice, a podcast which airs nationally and on WPKN-CT.
Our guests cover topics from the ramped up oppressive measures against women's rights under Trump 2.0; to the possibility of an end to the war in Ukraine; and the assault on DEI, free speech and public education.
Hosts: Ruthanne Baumgartner, Scott Harris and Richard Hill
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SPECIAL PREPORTS
Monthly Labor Report: Six Weeks in and YES–We’ve Got Fascism!
This month the Labor Report focuses on the rapid devolution of the American political system into an authoritarian fascist oligarchy.Michael Zweig, economist and labor...
Black Labor in the U.S. — Then and Now
A deep dive into the history of African American involvement in the U.S. labor movement with Steven Pitts, recently retired labor policy advisor of...
Resistance Roundtable: How Democrats Lost the Working Class
Vivek Chibber, professor of sociology at New York University, presents a class analysis of the Nov. 5 election, noting that the Democratic party had...
Youth and Elders Call on Gov. Hochul to Sign the Climate Change Superfund Act
On Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 10-11, about 100 climate activists occupied a New York State Capitol reception room to urge Gov. Kathy Hochul to...
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Hey AmeriKKKa, It’s Not Normal!
An unhinged convicted felon, who shamelessly acts on his amoral, white supremacist and fascist beliefs, is now the de facto dictator of the world's most powerful nuclear armed superpower
Voters Overwhelmingly Oppose Trump-GOP Plan to Slash $880 Billion from Medicaid Healthcare
On Feb. 25, the House narrowly voted to take the first step toward moving a budget plan forward that would extend the president’s 2017 tax cuts, increasing t...
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