Counterpoint with Scott Harris: The looming menace of Christofascism
This Week on Counterpoint
Show date: Sept. 2, 2013
Steven Jonas: Novel Cites U.S. Christian Right’s Actual Strategies and Tactics to Portray Frightening Future Under Their Rule
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Interview with Steven Jonas, professor of preventive medicine at Stony Brook University, a fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences and author of over 30 books
Steven Jonas discusses his new “futuristic novel,” titled, “The 15% Solution: How the Republican Religious Right took Control of the U.S. 1981-2022.” Jonas is a senior editor with The Greanville Post, and columnist with BuzzFlash.com and Truthout.org
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Complete program bill for 09.02.13: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the history of the Syrian civil war; Diluting the message of the March on Washington; International Law and Obama’s Planned Syria Attack & Discussion of the book “15% Solution” re: the Christian Right
Duration: 1 hour, 53 minutes
Originating station: WPKN, Bridgeport
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Scott Harris is a veteran social justice/peace activist and broadcaster. He is executive producer of a weekly radio newsmagazine, “Between The Lines,” heard on 50 community radio stations in the U.S. and Canada. (Between The Lines’ podcasts, interview transcripts and program summaries can be found at www.btlonline.org. ).
Anna Manzo serves as general producer for these shows.
Scott’s most recent Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists Award 2011: Reporting / In-Depth Series; Radio
First place: “Occupy Wall Street: The birth of a movement for the 99%; Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine.
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Jennifer G. Loewenstein: As Obama Consults Congress on Planned Syria Attack, Avenues Toward Negotiated End to Conflict Ignored
Interview with Jennifer G. Loewenstein, associate director of the Middle East Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
Jennifer G. Loewenstein talks about her views on the Obama administration’s decision to punish the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad for its alleged use of chemical weapons near Damascus resulting in mass civilian casualties — as well as the possible consequences of any future U.S./European military attack in escalating the civil war or widening the conflict throughout the region. She is an authority on contemporary Middle East history, politics, culture, religion and U.S. foreign policy in the region.
Bill Fletcher Jr: 50th Anniversary Celebrants and Media Dilute Message of 1963 March on Washington
Interview with Bill Fletcher Jr, editorial board member and columnist with the online publication BlackCommentator.com and the immediate past president of TransAfrica Forum
Bill Fletcher Jr. discusses his recent article, “Claiming and Teaching the 1963 March on Washington,” as well as reviews resurgent social justice movement stirrings within the labor and civil rights movement, such as the Dream Defender activists in Florida and the Moral Monday weekly protests in North Carolina battling “stand your ground” gun laws and voter suppression legislation. Fletcher is the former vice president for International Trade Union Development Programs at the AFL-CIO’s George Meany Center.
Francis Boyle: International Law Doesn’t Condone Planned U.S. Intervention in Syrian Civil War
Interview with Francis Boyle, professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law and author of a dozen books including, “Biowarfare and Terrorism,” and “Destroying World Order: U.S. Imperialism in the Middle East Before and After September 11th.”
Francis Boyle examines the veracity of the Obama administration’s contention that the Syrian government’s alleged use of chemical weapons against its own people justifies an American military attack and the basis in international law for any future U.S. cruise missile or airstrikes inside Syrian territory.