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6/18/13 Thomas Mountain

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Thomas C. Mountain, an independent journalist based in Eritrea, discusses the fake democracies and bogus elections throughout Africa; the UN-approved president of Liberia who won a Nobel Prize while failing to provide running water or electricity in the nation’s capital; the curious correlation between Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s death and the end of piracy [...]

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6/18/13 Sheldon Richman

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Sheldon Richman, vice president of the Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses his article “Motives Aside, the NSA Should Not Spy on Us;” why patriotic zealots are more dangerous than self-dealing crooks; the NSA’s justification for its spying programs; and the inter-agency rift between CIA-NSA that the centralizing Department of Homeland Security was supposed to fix.

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6/17/13 Ezekiel Edwards

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Ezekiel Edwards, director and former staff attorney at the ACLU, discusses the Supreme Court’s ruling that Maryland police can extract DNA samples from those arrested (not convicted) for “serious crimes;” Justice Scalia’s impressive dissent; the racial disparity of marijuana possession arrests; and the 5th Amendment-shredding SCOTUS decision in Salinas v. Texas.

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6/17/13 Muhammad Sahimi

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Muhammad Sahimi, co-founder of Iran News & Middle East Reports, discusses “moderate conservative” Hassan Rouhani’s victory in Iran’s presidential election and the golden opportunity for a US-Iran deal on nuclear enrichment and sanctions.

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6/14/13 Eric Margolis

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Eric Margolis, journalist and author of American Raj, discusses the Obama administration’s decision to directly arm Syrian rebels; the “old colonial lusts” of Britain and France; disagreement on whether the Syrian government or the rebels used chemical weapons; and Obama’s rather arbitrary “red line.”

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6/18/13 Thomas Mountain

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6/17/13 Ezekiel Edwards

6/17/13 Muhammad Sahimi

6/14/13 Eric Margolis