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) Melvin Goodman, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, professor of government at Johns Hopkins University, a former CIA analyst and author, talks about his recent Counterpunch commentary, "The Waste and Futility of the Golden Dome National Defense System," estimated to cost between $161 and $542 billion over two decades, and the larger danger of expiring U.S.-Russia nuclear arms control treaties.

2) Sharif Abdel Kouddous is the Middle East and North Africa editor with Drop Site News, who received a George Polk Award for his investigation into the killing of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. He'll discuss his coverage of Israel's starvation campaign against Gaza's 2.3 million Palestinian civilians -- and the Trump regime's role in this war crime via the U.S. backed "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" -- as reported in his recent article, "Palestinians Are Collapsing in Gaza's Streets From Israeli-Imposed Starvation Campaign."

3) Robert Greenwald is founder and president of Brave New Films, a nonprofit production company that creates and distributes investigative political and social justice documentaries. He'll talk about his new documentary, titled, "Gaza: Journalists Under Fire," which exposes Israel’s crimes against journalism and humanity, where more than 200 Gaza-based journalists have been killed since the October 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel -- through the lives and deaths of Palestinian journalists Belal Jadallah, Heba Al-Abadla, and Ismail al-Ghoul.

4) Mother Jones' magazine DC bureau reporter, Hannah Levintova, talks about her investigation featured in the Public Radio series, Reveal, titled, "The Landlord Gutting America's Hospitals," which examines how a real estate company buys up hospitals and then leases them back to health care systems, causing dozens of its hospitals to go bankrupt, close or be sold because profits were sucked out of them - resulting in the deterioration of patient care.

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