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 Feffer, Director Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies and author of, "The Future of US-Korean Relations," assesses the Trump administration's foreign policy toward North Korea, addressed in his recent articles, "Trump's New Foreign Policy is the Worst of Both Worlds," and "What does Kim Jong Un Want?"

2) David Gibbs, Professor of History at the University of Arizona and author of, "First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia," discusses the foreign policy debate in the U.S. on regime change in Syria, in the context of recent American military interventions and the harmful results.

3) Walt McRee, Executive Director & Chair of the Public Banking Institute who discusses the basics about public banking, how it currently operates in North Dakota, and the proposal for a new public bank in New Jersey as proposed by Phil Murphy, a former Wall Street executive turned 2017 Democratic candidate for governor of New Jersey.

4) Stanley Heller, Promoting Enduring Peace administrator, talks about his group's annual Gandhi Peace Award, which this year honors CT native, consumer advocate, public citizen and independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader. The other awardee, Omar Barghouti, a founder of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement against Israel, who likely will be prevented by the Israeli government from attending the award ceremony to be held in New Haven on April 23rd.

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