Oversight Board Takes Aim at the NSA
A government oversight panel says that NSA spying programs are illegal. On Thursday, a report by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board was released, and it took serious aim at government surveillance. The 238-page report concluded that the bulk collection of phone data breaks the law, violates our civil rights, and does not make our nation any safer.
Daily Topics - Thursday January 23rd, 2014
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Join Thom LIVE from radio row at Families USA - Health Action 2014 in Washington, DC today and tomorrow - it's all about health care and Thom will be talking with the people on the frontlines...Whistleblower Wendell Potter, Ethan Rome (HCAN), Ron Pollock (FUSA) and more...plus, YOUR calls!
Republicans Want to Save the Tax Havens!
Republicans want to protect tax havens for billionaires. They don't want the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act to go into effect later this year. The FATCA is an agreement with banking officials in Switzerland, the U.S., and the Cayman Islands aimed at fighting international tax evasion.
Daily Topics - Wednesday January 22nd, 2014
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Hour One: Guns increasing murder & suicide risk is not fuzzy science - Neil McCabe, Guns & Patriots Newsletter / Plus, Why police beat an elderly man for jaywalking...
Hour Two: Mayor blames TX quakes on fracking - Alan Brundrett, Azle, TX
Economic Inequality Threatens Human Progress.
Economic inequality is a major threat to human progress. According to a new report from Oxfam, 85 people control the same amount of wealth as half the population of the entire world, and the top one percent has 65 times the wealth of the bottom half. This concentration of money gives a few people way too much power over our economic and political systems.
Daily Topics - Tuesday January 21st, 2014
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4th Anniversary of SCOTUS Citizen's United Decision
Hour One: Morality, not religion, should inform our political decisions - Dr. Alex McFarland
Hour Two: Will the Supreme Court blow up unions?
Hour Three: Amend the constitution and legalize democracy - David Cobb, Move to Amend
It's time to change the pattern of cuts in Congress.
Congress can't find the willpower to raise taxes on the rich, but that hasn't stopped them from chipping away at our retirement and slashing our social safety net. For decades, we've seen billions cut from vital programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, and cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security – but closing corporate tax loopholes or making Wall Street pay more to gamble is simply off the table.
Daily Topics - Monday January 20th, 2014
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Hour One: A conservative black American weighs in on MLK Day - Demetrius Minor, Project 21
Hour Two: Time to take the white savior out of slavery narratives? Daniel José Older, Salon.com
"Dr. King's Nightmare"
The richest 400 people in our nation have as much wealth as the entire African-American population in the United States. According to a new analysis by Bob Lord of the Institute for Policy Studies, the so-called “Forbes 400” has as much wealth as 41 million people. Mr. Lord called this stunning statistic, “Dr.
Daily Topics - Friday January 17th, 2014
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Anything Goes Friday
Hour One: Brunch With Bernie - Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) takes your calls
Hour Two: Pushing back on the TPP - Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) / PLUS, a Hunter School mom shares her child's story
Americans Want More Than Rhetoric And Reports on The NSA.
On the 53rd anniversary of President Eisenhower's warning about the military-industrial complex, President Obama spoke in defense of massive government spying programs. During the much-anticipated speech, the President claimed that he will reign in our government's wide net of surveillance, and give the public “more confidence” in the National Security Agency's spying programs.
Daily Topics - Thursday January 16th, 2013
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Hour One: 4/20 friendly...burden or benefit to the economy? Charles "Cully" Stimson, Heritage Foundation / Plus, a Hunter School student shares her story
Hour Two: Isnt' it time for the WPA? / Plus, Geeky Science - Your cat's tail and what it's telling you!
The TPP - The More We Know, The Worse It Gets.
We already knew that the Trans Pacific Partnership is a threat to our jobs, our civil rights, and our national sovereignty, and now we know it's also a danger to our environment. On Wednesday, Wikileaks published a leaked version of the environmental chapter of the TPP, and it's just another example of putting corporate power ahead of public interest.
Daily Topics - Wednesday January 15th, 2014
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Hour One: The privatization of the net has begun - C. Edmund Wright, WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again / Plus, Hunter heals a life lost in the system - A Hunter School mom talks about her daughter
We Can Restore Net Neutrality!
On the one-year anniversary of the death of internet-activist Aaron Swartz, three judges in D.C. killed the internet. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the FCC's net neutrality rule, and opened the door to corporate control of the information we can access online.
