Category Archives: Shows

6/19 David Dayen: The Student Loan Scam & Tim Shorrock: On Private Spying

On today’s show, David Dayen explained the student loan crises and why the student loan industry is uniquely unfair and corrupt. Investigative journalist explained the massive role that private contractors play in NSA surveillance and the Nation’s George Zornick explained … Continue reading

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6/17 Bill Scher: The Liberal Case For High-Tech NSA Surveillance

Bill Scher debated Matt & Michael on NSA data mining, is the NSA’s surveillance legal?whether or not the program has been effective, has the monitoring been abused? and the role of private contractors in gathering intelligence. Michael explained the new … Continue reading

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6/14 Casual Friday: Cliff Schecter & Andy Kindler

Sam and Cliff Schecter explained the enduring importance of the NSA scandal, the incompetence of the intelligence apparatus, the straw man arguments against pushing for transparency, the endless historical examples of abuse of surveillance and a Supreme Court ruling update. … Continue reading

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6/13 Richard Yeselson: Fortress Unionism

Labor historian and journalist Richard Yeselson explained how labor militancy drove labor rights in the 1930s, how the passage of Taft-Hartley Act attacked the organizing and cultural power of labor, why the Congressional backlash against labor was connected with opposition … Continue reading

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6/12 The Establishment Attacks Snowden & Justifies Surveillance State

Sam explained the absurd reactions from Thomas Friedman and David Brooks to the Edward Snowden disclosures, why establishment journalists defend themselves by attacking whistle blowing, Senate coalition pushes for more transparency in the surveillance program and how private companies are … Continue reading

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6/11 Who Profits From The Surveillance State? James Clapper Lied To Congress & Plan B

Sam went solo today and explained why Edward Snowden isn’t the main story, the market for private spying and data collection, why the Patriot Act’s implementation is a fundamental challenge to democratic culture, how the Director of National Intelligence James … Continue reading

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6/10 Juan Cole: The Surveillance State & Turkey’s Uprising

Professor Juan Cole, explained the corporate distortion of the Constitution, why NSA whistle blowers are turning the tables on the surveillance state, why data mining is a flawed counter terrorism strategy, the origins of Turkey’s recent protests and the youth … Continue reading

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6/7 Casual Friday: Cliff Schecter & Film Guy Matthew Weiss

Cliff Schecter, explained the new revelations of NSA data mining and surveillance, how the Obama Administration has codified a deeply invasive framework for monitoring Americans, will Glenn Greenwald be prosecuted? Is the “Grand Bargain” dead? and is Immigration Reform going … Continue reading

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6/6 Marcy Wheeler: They Can Hear You Now

Blogger Marcy Wheeler explained the meaning of the NSA’s mass surveillance of Verizon phone customers, why the NSA’s monitoring focuses on Americans, the problem with data mining in terrorism investigations, why it is alarmingly easy to become a terrorism suspect … Continue reading

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6/5 Trevor Aaronson: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terror

Terrorism Factory, author Trevor Aaronson explained the absurd case of the Liberty City Seven, why only a small fraction of recent terror arrests have actually posed real threats, how FBI paid informants drive frivolous cases and why these cases distract law … Continue reading

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