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

Colonel Richard (Dick) Klass is a retired USAF colonel and Vietnam veteran with two graduate degrees from Oxford University which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He currently sits on the Board of the Council for a Livable World, an arms control advocacy group. Col. Klass, President of the Veterans Alliance for Security and Democracy Political Action Committee, talks about the billions of dollars President Obama allocated to modernize U.S. nuclear weapons stockpiles in exchange for GOP votes to ratify the New Start Treaty.

Joe Torres, Senior Adviser for Government Relations and External Affairs with the media reform group Free Press discusses the recent FCC vote approving deeply flawed Internet neutrality rules.

Brian Miller, Executive Director with the group United for a Fair Economy, discusses the Obama-GOP Tax cut deal, the push for austerity, cuts in social programs and the growing disparity between rich and poor in the U.S.

Listener phone calls on a variety of topics, including reflections on 2010 and hopes and fears about 2011.

Some segments of Counterpoint are edited for re-broadcast on the syndicated Between The Lines radio newsmagazine. 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 Counterpoint programs are accessible for free at http://www.wpkn.org

Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris heard every Monday on WPKN 89.5 FM,Bridgeport, CT and WPKM 88.7 FM Montauk, NY between 8:00-10:00 pm ET. Webstreaming at http://wpkn.org