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) Victor Pickard, the C. Edwin Baker professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses Donald Trump's decision to ban journalists from CNN, MS-NOW, and Politico from the White House grounds, revoking their press credentials and triggering a major constitutional showdown over press freedom. He'll focus on this recent issue in the context of the many other instances of Trump regime attacks on journalists, media outlets and the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of the press.

2) Nicolas J. S. Davies is an independent journalist, a researcher with CODEPINK, and the author of "Blood On Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq." He'll discuss his recent column co-written with Medea Benjamin, "The Urgency of Recognizing the Ansar Allah Government in Yemen," and issues related to the current situation in Yemen, Trump's war on Iran, and conflict's impact on the flow of Middle East oil.

3) Kim Ives, a journalist and editor at the weekly newspaper Haïti Liberté, talks about the issues he's covering in Haiti, news of ongoing violence, the role of Erik Prince, founder of the private military contractor Blackwater, the UN adjacent Gang Suppression Force, and the Trump regime's decision to revoke TPS status for some 350k Haitians in the U.S., with the threat of mass deportation.

4) Paul Street is an independent radical-democratic policy researcher, journalist, historian and author of "This Happened Here: Amerikaners, Neoliberals, and the Trumping of America." He'll discuss his column, "It’s Only Wednesday, For Fascist’s Sakes!" a compendium of Donald Trump's crimes against democracy from less than one recent week.

Some segments featured on Counterpoint are edited for re-broadcast on the syndicated Between The Lines radio news magazine. Visit their web site at http://www.btlonline.org for free subscriptions to mp3 - podcast audio files, program summaries and interview transcripts. An archive of current and past Counterpoint interviews are accessible for free at our Counterpoint Radio web site: http://counterpointradio.org The full 1.5 hour unedited program can be accessed for a 2 week period after the show, at the WPKN Radio archives: http://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/search/counterpoint

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) Sarah Kendzior is a journalist, anthropologist, and researcher, who's the bestselling author of several books including her latest, "They Knew" and "The Last American Road Trip," and is the former co-host of the popular podcast Gaslit Nation. She'll discuss her views on the Trump regime's looming threat to subvert the outcome of the midterm election by a multi-pronged set of seditious tactics -- and the enormous challenge of reconstructing our broken nation's democratic institutions.

2) Dr. Bandy Lee, a forensic and social psychiatrist, co-founder and president of the World Mental Health Coalition, and is editor of the bestselling book, "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump," which analyzed the mental fitness of President Donald Trump. Dr. Lee, whose latest book is titled, "The Psychology of Trump Contagion: An Existential Danger to American Democracy and All Humankind," will explain why she believes that Trump's mental instability and unfettered presidential powers create an extreme, unprecedented risk of global catastrophe.

3) Miranda Bogen, Director of the Center for Democracy & Technology’s AI Governance Lab & Chief Technologist talks about the important work her group has been doing to educate the public on the dangers of unregulated artificial intelligence, while calling for new AI regulatory legislation at both the U.S. federal level and internationally. This conversation follows a week when news coverage of AI erupted after high-profile researchers warned that increasingly powerful AI systems may be advancing faster than scientists can reliably control them, and reports of six cases of unauthorized AI behavior, including AI agents concealing mistakes and circumventing human direction.

4) A spokesperson (TBA) for organizers of a demonstration where hundreds gathered outside of Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field on September 19th ahead of Ed Sheeran’s first concert since rapper Macklemore was dropped as an opening act following his earlier pro-Palestinian remarks onstage. Following Macklemore's exit, all of Sheeran's opening acts and his own Beoga band members withdrew from his 42-city Loop Tour in 15 countries, including Finneas, Lukas Graham, and Aaron Row. Protesters at the concert venue demanded a free Palestine and an end to the ongoing genocide in Gaza. while condemning the the blatant silencing artists who express solidarity with the Palestinian people.

Some segments featured on Counterpoint are edited for re-broadcast on the syndicated Between The Lines radio news magazine. Visit their web site at http://www.btlonline.org for free subscriptions to mp3 - podcast audio files, program summaries and interview transcripts. An archive of current and past Counterpoint interviews are accessible for free at our Counterpoint Radio web site: http://counterpointradio.org The full 1.5 hour unedited program can be accessed for a 2 week period after the show, at the WPKN Radio archives: http://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/search/counterpoint