Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine

06/10/2026

Get familiar with the tipping points of catastrophic climate change, so you know where we are all headed. This is perhaps the most comprehensive documentary to help understand how all our ecosystems are closely inter-related and when one fails, such as the melting of the polar ice caps ... how it affects all the others.... life as we humans have known it for 10,000 years is starting to slip away, never to return to the predictable systems we have known since early civilization began. https://www.netflix.com/title/81336476

David Attenborough and scientist Johan Rockström examine Earth's biodiversity collapse and how this crisis can still be averted.

06/09/2026

Researchers say the Arctic Ocean crossed a biological tipping point in 2009, when nitrate levels in the water suddenly started dropping due to a drastic reduction in sea ice extent.

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/arctic/sea-ice-loss-in-the-arctic-has-triggered-a-critical-tipping-point-thats-destroying-the-food-chain

Researchers say the Arctic Ocean crossed a biological tipping point in 2009, when nitrate levels in the water suddenly started dropping due to a drastic reduction in sea ice extent.

06/08/2026

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) Sophia Tesfaye, a senior writer at Salon.com, talks about her recent commentary, "Bari Weiss brings Trumpism to “60 Minutes, ” re: the Ellison family CBS "murder" of America's highest rated and most watched news program, issues related to MAGA friendly billionaires' takeover of media outlets, and Donald Trump's weaponization of the FCC and other federal agencies to destroy the nation's free press.

2) Stand Up America's Executive Director, Christina Harvey discusses her group's national "Kick Out Corruption Tour," being organized with End Citizens United, to expose how corruption in Washington is driving up costs for everyday Americans, while offering solutions to cleaning up the waste, fraud and abuse that results from unchecked government corruption.

3) Alex Lawson, executive director of the group Social Security Works, talks about the Increasing number of Social Security offices that are "temporarily closed" while others are chronically understaffed "ghost offices" that only have a skeleton crew left and can’t meaningfully serve the local community. All this while there are reports that the Trump administration is planning to use AI to spy on employees and use low staffing as an excuse to close more offices.

4) Sean Strub, an AIDS activist, founder of POZ Magazine, author, and politician talks about the nationwide Seven Days in June campaign, June 1–7, organized to raise awareness about the $1.2 trillion in federal cuts to healthcare programs, the fight to restore funding impacting millions of Americans, and calling on local, state, and federal leaders to protect health as a governing priority.

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

06/06/2026

Press freedom cratering globally and in US. under Trump administration https://open.substack.com/pub/betweenthelinesradionews/p/world-press-freedom-index-tracks

Interview with Ben Grazda, advocacy manager with Reporters Without Borders, conducted by Scott Harris

06/04/2026

Trump's new game for fellow memory care patients.

Which one of these things is not like the other?

06/03/2026

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06/03/2026

06/03/2026

In her first public comments on the firing, Ms. Weiss, the CBS News editor in chief, said that the longtime correspondent had “broken” the trust in the newsroom.

06/03/2026

The United States is one of only seven countries lacking a federal mandate for paid maternal or family leave. Within the country, only 13 states and D.C. have paid family and medical leave programs, acting as a lifeline for families. Often considered by lawmakers to be a program too expensive to sta...