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Jim Bovard returns to the show to discuss some of his recent articles. They talk about Ted Cruz and the TSA, the Special Counsel’s verdict on Biden, new revelations about the Federal Government’s economic surveillance of Americans and more.

Discussed on the show:

• Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty by Jim Bovard
• “Cancun Ted Cruz wants to make politicians a privileged caste at airports” (New York Post)
• “Biden is not fit for president if he’s not fit to prosecute” (New York Post)
• “Guilty But Clueless: Special Counsel Verdict On Biden” (Libertarian Institute)
• The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America’s Soldiers by Joseph Hickman
• Yesterday’s Man: The Case Against Joe Biden by Branko Marcetic
• “Biden’s Big Brother teams are now watching what you BUY — hope you pay in cash” (New York Post)

Jim Bovard is a columnist and the author of Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty. Find all of his books and read his work on his website and follow him on Twitter @JimBovard.

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Kade Crockford, Director of the ACLU of Massachusetts Technology for Liberty Project, discusses the FBI’s greatly expanding surveillance power in three key areas: their Next Generation Identification (biometric) database; warrantless access to the internet records of Americans; and their ability to hack and install malware on computers – all potentially without any public oversight.

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Gilbert Doctorow, a professional Russia watcher and actor in Russian affairs going back to 1965, discusses the lack of a real debate in Western media on US-Russia relations; and why we are more in danger of nuclear annihilation now than at any point in the Cold War since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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Nick Turse, the associate editor of TomDispatch.com and author of The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives, discusses Sudan’s long and bloody history of civil war from 1955 onward as South Sudan has repeatedly sought independence; and why Hillary Clinton gave South Sudan’s military a pass on child soldiers when she was Secretary of State.

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Ramzy Baroud, an internationally syndicated columnist and founder of The Palestine Chronicle, discusses why the French-hosted Israel-Palestine peace conference (not attended by Israel) is a total sham; the increasingly fascistic Israeli people and government; and why all apartheid states must come to an end eventually – even Israel.

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Mark Wilkerson, a US Army veteran and author of Tomas Young’s War, discusses the life of Tomas Young, an Iraq War veteran who was shot and paralyzed only five days after being deployed in Baghdad in 2004. He then spent the next 10 years as an antiwar activist, during which he wrote a memorable “last letter” to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney while in hospice care in 2013.

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Former Congressman Ron Paul discusses the libertarian alternative to bigger government and authoritarian presidential candidates; why mass deportation of hard-working immigrants is a bad idea; and how to have free trade without so-called free trade agreements.

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Rannie Amiri, an independent commentator on Middle East affairs, discusses why the US government supports Saudi Arabia’s ongoing crackdown on Bahrain’s reform protestors, even though their demands should appeal to a pro-democracy Western audience.

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Muckraking journalist Ken Silverstein discusses the “Shaky Foundations” of the Clinton Foundation, and why it seems more focused on influence peddling than actual charitable works.

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