Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris, is heard every Monday night on WPKN 89.5 FM, Bridgeport, CT between 8:00 - 10:00 pm ET. Webstreaming and audio archive at http://wpkn.org

1) John Burroughs, Executive Director of Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy discusses his group's and RootsAction.org's campaign to stop President Trump's stated intention to withdraw the U.S. from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia, and examine the various interest groups and defense industries who are pushing to end the treaty.

2) Felicia Kornbluh, co author along with Gwendolyn Mink of the new book,"Ensuring Poverty: Welfare Reform in Feminist Perspective," talks about their important and overdue assessment of welfare reform's impact on women.

3) Award-winning reporter Dave Lindorff discusses his soon to be published Nation Magazine investigation into the Defense Department’s shady -- and likely unconstitutional budgeting practices, titled: The Pentagon's Massive Accounting Fraud Exposed.

4) Tom Lewandowski, co-founder and director of the Workers' Project in Fort Wayne, Indiana talks about his recent In These Times article, "Forget Elections, Labor Needs to Get Back to Its Roots," in the face of effective, well funded Republican Party and right wing attacks on the labor movement.

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