WPKN: Politics, Policy, and Planet Podcast

57:14

"Live Boldly with Rev Sara Smith," Episode #3 -...

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2026/10/11

The 3rd episode of "Live Boldly with host Rev Sara Smith," features a conversation with John F. Stafstrom Jr., a prominent attorney and long-time partner at the law firm Pullman & Comley, LLC. and Julie Walsh Deputy Director with the Triangle Community Center in Norwalk, CT, centered on National Coming Out Day 2026 and the gay experience. Rev. Sara Smith is Senior Minister of the United Congregational Church of Bridgeport, President/CEO and Founder nOURish BRIDGEPORT, Inc., and Sacred

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7:29

Growing Resistance to Nationwide Revival of the...

WPKN: Politics, Policy, and Planet Podcast ·

2026/10/09

Interview with Kimberly Scott, executive director of the Georgia Women's Action for New Directions Education Fund, conducted by Melinda Tuhus.A rally outside New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s Manhattan office opposed her support for building new nuclear power plants in the state to address surging demand from AI data centers and other energy-hungry projects. One of the rally speakers was Kimberly Scott, executive director of Georgia Women’s Action for New Directions Education Fund. Between The

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20:18

New Haven Advocate Reborn as a Quarterly, After 2013...

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2026/10/09

Interview with Tom Smith, New Haven Advocate co-editor, conducted by Scott Harris.Tom Smith, who served as an associate writer and columnist with the Advocate from 1987, talks about the recent relaunch of the New Haven Advocate as a quarterly alternative newspaper more than 50 years after the publication’s first printing, featuring news, commentary and humor. Smith, along with Colleen Van Tassell, and writer and illustrator John Guillemette, serve as the revived newspaper’s editors.

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17:36

Left Rising Alongside Far Right in Recent German...

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2026/10/09

Interview with Cas Mudde, Stanley Wade Shelton UGAF Professor of International Affairs and distinguished research professor, School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia.Cas Mudde discusses his recent Guardian column, “Look again—there’s more to Europe’s election trends than far-right success,” and shares his views on the outcome of recent elections in Germany and the rise of the far right across Europe.

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17:30

Former Senior Security Officials Urge States to Block...

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2026/10/09

Interview with Dan Schwartz, legal affairs lead with National Security Leaders for America (NSL4A), conducted by Scott Harris.Dan Schwartz, legal affairs lead with National Security Leaders for America (NSL4A), discusses his group’s recent call on state attorneys general to prepare to block armed federal interference in the midterm election and other issues related to President Trump’s threat to interfere with and manipulate the outcome of the midterm congressional election that the

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25:53

House Hearing Launches Latest GOP Effort to Cut...

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2026/10/09

Interview with Alex Lawson, executive director of Social Security Works, conducted by Scott Harris.Alex Lawson discusses a U.S. House Budget Committee field hearing held on Sept. 21 at a Dallas property owned by billionaire Harlan Crow, that focused on establishing a fast-track commission which senior advocates view as a GOP strategy to cut Social Security benefits behind closed doors.

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6:33

Trump NSA Restructuring Plan is a Poor Substitute for...

WPKN: Politics, Policy, and Planet Podcast ·

2026/10/02

Interview with Thomas Drake, a former NSA senior executive and whistleblower, conducted by Melinda Tuhus.Thomas Drake talks about this latest development at his former agency. Twenty years ago, Drake revealed the George W. Bush administration’s post 9/11 warrantless mass surveillance program, 9/11 intelligence failures and multibillion-dollar fraud and waste. To tell his story, Drake first went through all the proper government procedures, but finally talked to a newspaper reporter after he

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18:48

Only a Mass Civil Society Uprising Can Stop Trump’s...

WPKN: Politics, Policy, and Planet Podcast ·

2026/10/02

Interview with Paul Street, independent radical-democratic policy researcher, journalist, historian and author of This Happened Here: Amerikaners, Neoliberals, and the Trumping of America, conducted by Scott Harris.Paul Street discusses 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.

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17:45

Erik Prince’s Mercenary Army Now Operating in Haiti,...

WPKN: Politics, Policy, and Planet Podcast ·

2026/10/02

Interview with Kim Ives, a journalist and editor at the weekly newspaper Haïti Liberté, conducted by Scott Harris.Kim Ives 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 350,000 Haitians in the U.S., with the threat of mass deportation.

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17:15

Yemen’s Houthis at the Center of U.S.-Iran and Saudi...

WPKN: Politics, Policy, and Planet Podcast ·

2026/10/02

Interview with Nicolas J.S. Davies, an independent journalist, a researcher with CODEPINK, and the author of Blood On Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq, conducted by Scott Harris.Nicholas Davies discusses 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 the conflict’s impact on the flow of Middle East oil.

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27:02

White House Bans Three Media Outlets, the Latest...

WPKN: Politics, Policy, and Planet Podcast ·

2026/10/02

Interview with Victor Pickard, the C. Edwin Baker professor of media policy and political economy at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.Professor Pickard discusses Donald Trump’s decision to ban journalists from CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the White House grounds, revoking their press credentials and triggering a major constitutional showdown over press freedom. He focuses on this recent issue in the context of the many other instances of Trump regime

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6:35

Trump’s EPA Repeals Limits on Coal & Gas Power Plant...

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2026/09/25

Interview with Dr. Lynn Goldman, professor of Environmental & Occupational Health at George Washington University, conducted by Melinda Tuhus.Between The Lines’ Melinda Tuhus spoke with Dr. Lynn Goldman, professor of environmental and occupational health at George Washington University, a pediatrician, and former assistant administrator for toxic substances at the Environmental Protection Agency. Here she talks about the dangers of the Trump regime’s elimination of power plant emission

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17:51

Philadelphia Pro-Palestinian Groups Protest at Ed...

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2026/09/25

Interview with Shayna, a critical care nurse, anti-imperialist organizer and spokesperson for organizers of this past Saturday’s Ed Sheeran demonstration, conducted by Scott Harris. Shayna, a critical care nurse, anti-imperialist organizer and spokesperson for organizers of this past Saturday’s pro-Palestinian demonstration, discusses how hundreds gathered outside of Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field ahead of Ed Sheeran’s first concert after rapper Macklemore was dropped as an opening

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31:27

AI Potential Danger Provokes Calls for Development...

WPKN: Politics, Policy, and Planet Podcast ·

2026/09/25

Interview with Miranda Bogen, director and chief technologist, of the Center for Democracy & Technology’s AI Governance Lab, conducted by Scott Harris.Miranda Bogen 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

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18:51

Trump’s Mental Instability and Unilateral...

WPKN: Politics, Policy, and Planet Podcast ·

2026/09/25

Excerpt of interview with Dr. Bandy Lee, a forensic and social psychiatrist, co-founder and president of the World Mental Health Coalition, and editor of the best-selling book, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, conducted by Scott Harris, Richard Hill and Ruth Anne Baumgartner on WPKN Radio's Resistance Roundtable program - originally aired on September 17, 2026.Dr. Bandy X. Lee, whose latest book is titled, The Psychology of Trump Contagion: An Existential Danger to American Democracy and

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27:36

Trump’s Authoritarian Onslaught Designed to Overwhelm...

WPKN: Politics, Policy, and Planet Podcast ·

2026/09/25

Interview with Sarah Kendzior, a journalist, anthropologist, researcher, and former co-host of the popular podcast Gaslit Nation, conducted by Scott Harris.Here Sarah Kendzior discusses 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. She also comments on the enormous challenge of reconstructing our broken nation’s democratic institutions. Kendzior is the best-selling author of several books including

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56:14

Resistance Roundtable--Sept. 2026: Dire Diagnosis for...

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2026/09/24

The Resistance Roundtable features: Dr. Bandy Lee, a psychiatrist who has studied and written on the pathology of Donald Trump, discusses the ever-increasing danger posed by the sociopath-in-chief. Clare Evento, a Waterbury, CT-based activist, talks about the Oct. 17 No Kings events planned for southeastern CT.Panel: Ruthanne Baumgartner, Scott Harris and Richard Hill

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60:55

The Organic Farmstand, Fall Harvest Update: Honey,...

WPKN: Politics, Policy, and Planet Podcast ·

2026/09/20

The Organic Farm Stand lineup:Hot Topics -- Diane LauricellaSmall Farms Update -- Steve Munno, Massaro FarmHoney Bee Update -- Vincent KayeOyster Farming in CT -- special guest, Sean Riley of the New England Oyster FarmHosts: Richard Hill and Diane Lauricella

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6:51

Trump Regime Once Again Attempts to Eliminate...

WPKN: Politics, Policy, and Planet Podcast ·

2026/09/18

Interview with Wanda Culp, an activist with Tongass Women for Forests and Tongass regional coordinator for Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), conducted by Melinda Tuhus.Between The Lines’ Melinda Tuhus spoke with Wanda Culp, a Tlinglit woman from the Tongass forest in southeast Alaska, who has fought against corporate clearcutting near her home, since the 1980s with a group called Tongass Women for Forests. Here she explains what difference the Roadless Rule made and how

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16:47

More Than 1 Million Refugees’ TPS Revoked by Trump...

WPKN: Politics, Policy, and Planet Podcast ·

2026/09/18

Interview with Dulce Guzmán, executive director at Alianza Americas, conducted by Scott Harris.Dulce Guzmán discusses her group’s work focusing public attention on the plight of hundreds of thousands of refugees from more than a dozen countries who have had their TPS status revoked by the Trump administration—and the uncertainty that nationals from El Salvador who reside in the U.S. are now living with because Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin has not announced any decision

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