Category Archives: Podcast

5/21 Glenn Greenwald: The Obama Administration’s War On Press Freedom

Glenn Greenwald explained the Obama Justice Department’s sweeping surveillance of journalists, President Obama’s atrocious record on press freedom, how the Wikileaks prosecution theory is now being used to criminalize all investigative journalism, the parallels between the Nixon and Obama Administration … Continue reading

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5/20 Matthew Rothschild: Homeland Security Spies On Occupy For Wall Street

Progressive Magazine Editor,Matthew Rothschild explained How counter-terrorism “fusion” centers spied on Occupy activists, the close coordination between corporate interests and law enforcement, why these disclosures are far more concerning than the IRS scandal, how law enforcement intelligence was passed onto … Continue reading

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5/17 Casual Friday! Ari Berman & Jim Gaffigan

It’s Casual Friday! On today’s show Ari Berman of The Nation joins us to discuss the week full of scandals, umbrella-gate and gate-gate and…all the gates! Also, the Florida GOP Hispanic Outreach Director resigns, OFA’s failure in organizing for action … Continue reading

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5/16 Sandra Steingraber: I Went To Jail For My Children

Author, biologist, environmental activist, and mother Sandra Steingraber joins us to discuss why she went to jail for her environmental activism, the toxic assault on our children, and the environmental links to cancer and human health. In the better half: Sam is … Continue reading

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5/14 Scandals: Real & Imagined!

In a week full of “scandals,” Sam Seder walks us through the real scandals and the imagined ones. We discuss the AP phone records seized by DOJ and the press’ coverage on whistleblowers, the IRS investigation into Tea Party groups … Continue reading

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5/13 Isabel Macdonald: GOP’s Drug-Testing Dragnet

Freelance journalist Isabel Macdonald  joins us to discuss her latest piece for The Nation, GOP’s Drug-Testing Dragnet. We talk about how the drug testing industry is a self-licking ice cream cone where Republicans and industry profiteers are targeting high school … Continue reading

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5/10 Casual Friday: Cliff Schecter & H. Jon Benjamin

It’s Casual Friday! Cliff Schecter walks us through Benghazi! Benghazi! Benghazi! hysteria, the  Heritage Foundation immigration report author’s sorted past, Elizabeth Warren’s first bill: big banks get cheap government loans, why can’t students? and more! Also, H. Jon Benjamin joins … Continue reading

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Matt Taibbi: Everything Is Rigged, The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever

Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone joins us to discuss his latest piece, Everything is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever. In the interview we discuss, how there is no secret conspiracy because all these scandals out in the open, how … Continue reading

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5/8 Samir Sonti: Why We Need to Make University Free, and How We Can Do It

Samir Sonti, explained the evolution of the corporate sectors view of public education, why eduction shouldn’t be about human capital, the origins of student debt, the enduring lessons of the GI Bill, why free education would boost the economy as … Continue reading

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5/7 George & Beth Gage: Bidder 70: Jailed For Climate Action

Filmmakers George & Beth Gage, discussed their new documentary Bidder 70, explained Tim DeChristopher’s act of civil disobedience at an oil and gas auction in Utah, how public land across the country is threatened, why the auction Tim disrupted was found to … Continue reading

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