Episode

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

June 10, 2013

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 driven global backlash against neo-liberalism.

On The Better half: who is the NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden? Arizona police pull over and arrest a sober man for drunk driving, an atheist prayer needs a Christian “redo and your calls and IMs.

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