Monday, March 24, 2008

Tonight on Counterpoint

8:00 p.m. - Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris

  • Robert Parry, award winning investigative journalist and editor of ConsortiumNews.com, discusses the Presidential election including "Passport-gate," and debates over racial issues related to comments by Barack Obama's pastor - Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.
  • Eric Boehlert, a senior fellow at Media Matters for America and author of "Lapdogs: How The Press Rolled Over for Bush," talks about the media's flawed coverage of the presidential election and the 5th anniversary of the Iraq war.
  • Bruce Gagnon, coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, assesses recent talks between the U.S. and Russia over the Bush administration's plan to deploy an anti-missile system to Poland and the Czech Republic.
  • Adrienne Esposito, executive director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment talks about the the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's approval of Broadwater Energy's plan to establish a floating liquefied natural gas storage facility in Long Island Sound - and what opponents are planning to stop the project.

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