Publish date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013
Description: For some reason, Dan is not afraid of North Koreans. There’s obviously something wrong with him. But you knew that already.
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Publish date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013
Description: A bombing at the Boston Marathon renews calls for extreme measures to combat terrorism. Can this go too far? If it does, can we ever dial the process back to saner levels?
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Publish date: Mon, 6 May 2013
Description: The People are supposed to govern the United States. But in so many crucial areas We, The People have virtually no input or control over the direction policy takes. Can this be remedied? Dan wonders…
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2.Transcript: Obama’s Commencement Speech at Ohio State
Publish date: Wed, 15 May 2013
Description: Dan analyzes the three main scandals currently plaguing the Obama Administration. He breaks them down individually while trying to put them in a historical context.
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1.”Top IRS official didn’t reveal tea party targeting” by Stephen Ohlemacher, Associated Press, May 14, 2013.
2.”Gov’t obtains wide AP phone records in probe” by Mark Sherman for The Associated Press, May 13, 2013.
3.”White House tiptoes around Justice phone record seizure” by Aamer Madhani and Kevin Johnson for the Associated Press, May 14, 2013.
Publish date: Tue, 28 May 2013
Description: Dan finally gets his wish granted when the President addresses key holes in the entire premise behind the War on Terror. Now what?
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1.“Obama refocuses terror threat to pre-9/11 level” by Robert Burns for the Associated Press, May 25, 2013.
2.”Pivoting From a War Footing, Obama Acts to Curtail Drones” by Peter Baker for The New York Times, May 23, 2013
Publish date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013
Description: One of the largest leaks of classified information ever divulged about U.S. Government clandestine surveillance and monitoring efforts hits the media, confirming many things Dan has said over the years.
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1.”NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily” By Glenn Greenwald for the (UK) Guardian, June 6, 2013.
2.”Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks” By Glenn Greenwald for the (UK) Guardian, June 7, 2013.
3.”NSA Prism program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and others” By Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill for the (UK) Guardian, June 7, 2013.
4.”Boundless Informant: the NSA’s secret tool to track global surveillance data”by Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill for the (UK) Guardian, June 9, 2013.
5.”Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations” by Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill and Laura Poitras for the (UK) Guardian, June 9, 2013.
6.”NSA Whistleblowers: “All U.S. Citizens” Targeted by Surveillance Program, Not Just Verizon Customers” -Television, aired June 6, 2013. (transcript)
7.”Supreme Court throws out NSA surveillance case” by Declan McCullagh for CNET News, February 26, 2013
8.”Dirty Bomb Blows Liberty” by Al Lewis for The Wall Street Journal, June 8, 2013.
9.”Listening In” by Seymour M. Hersh for The New Yorker, May 29, 2006
Publish date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013
Description: Recent revelations have made more clear the scope of government surveillance and monitoring of foreigners and citizens. In this show, Dan takes the conversation to the next level.
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1.”A Former President Suggests Self-Censorship; What Does That Mean for America?” by Linda Lewis for Boiling Frogs Media, Friday, 21. June 2013.
2. John F. Kennedy Address on the first Anniversary of the Alliance for Progress March 13, 1962
Publish date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013
Description: Dan’s always been a vociferous opponent of the political duopoly in the U.S….now a David Brooks column about the recent Coup in Egypt has Dan drawing comparisons to what Brooks said about Egypt that Dan feels might apply to the U.S. as well.
Show Notes: 1.”Defending the Coup” by David Brooks for The New York Times, July 4, 2013
Publish date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013
Description: The ripples created by Edward Snowden’s leaks continue to impact the U.S. government and electorate. In a show where Dan reads a lot to you he breaks down how the controversial Snowden has already changed things for the better.
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1.”Exclusive: U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans” by John Shiffman and Kristina Cooke for Reuters News Service, Aug 5, 2013
2.”Momentum Builds Against N.S.A. Surveillance” By JONATHAN WEISMAN for The New York Times , July 28, 2013
3.”Members of Congress denied access to basic information about NSA” By Glenn Greenwald for The Guardian, August 4, 2013
4.”Poll Shows Voter Bi-Partisan Split Mirrors House Vote on NSA” by Jared Metzker for Antiwar.com, July 26, 2013
Publish date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013
Description: Egypt’s version of the Arab Spring seems to be on the verge of unraveling. Dan details the unique challenges of Egyptian democracy and the stakes for The West in the struggle for Islamic representative government.
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Publish date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013
Description: Can a U.S. president take his nation into war by himself? The Syrian conflict may prove to be a test case to determine if any checks still exists on the war making authority of the Executive Branch of government.
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1.”Syria: Outrage is Not a Strategy” Michael Yon blog, September 2 , 2013
2.”Obama’s proposal seeks broad war power despite vow of limits” by Michael Doyle for McClatchy News Service, September 1, 2013
3.”Syria: it takes more courage to say there is nothing outsiders can do” by Simon Jenkins for the Guardian Newspaper, August 29, 2013.
Publish date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013
Description: Part Deux of the Syrian Red Line affair, plus a few other stories that got Dan thinking.
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1.”Students offered grants if they tweet pro-Israeli propaganda” by Brian Lynfield for the (UK) Independent, August 13, 2013
2.”Israel to pay students to defend it online” by Daniel Estrin for the Associated Press (and The Detroit News), August 14, 2013
3.”Spy Kids” by Charles Stross for Foreign Policy Magazine, August 28, 2013
Publish date: Sat, 05 Oct 2013
Description: While all eyes are focused on the temporary politically-motivated partial shutdown of the federal government, Dan laments that a more dangerous societal cancer is festering under the national radar.
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Publish date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013
Description: The announcement of the creation of a new investigative news outlet involving the founder of eBay has Dan excited.He has to go back into his archives to find SOME of the many audio clips where he’s dreamed of this.
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Publish date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013
Description: Banks and Big Business might not be happy with the populist rhetoric they get from far Right and Left candidates in the 2016 presidential race. Dan, of course, likes the head-on clash of ideas. Also Obamacare and NSA spying.
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1.”The sin of omission in Obamacare” By Kathleen Parker for The Washington Post, November 5, 2013.
2.”Wall Street’s nightmare: President Elizabeth Warren” by Ben White and Maggie Haberman for Politico.com, November 11, 2013
3.”David Eckert Appears To Clench His Buttocks; Cops Order Enemas, Colonoscopy, X-Ray For Non-Existent Drugs” by Staff, November 5, 2013.
Publish date:Mon, 29 Oct 2012
Description: William Binney was an NSA official for three decades before he turned his life upside down by becoming one of the most prominent whistle-blowers in the history of U.S. Intelligence. Dan talks to him about surveillance, spying, secrecy and Edward Snowden.
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Publish date:Sat, 17 Nov 2012
Description: A show that was supposed to be about Pope Francis goes wildly off course as emotions from Dan’s younger days are awakened and lead to a diatribe against the outcomes of U.S. interventions in the last century.
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Publish date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013
Description: 2013 might have been a truly pivotal year if only Dan had thought to have his attorney present when making wishes to genies. Nonetheless, he had two big wishes come true. Sort of.
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The complete rulings of the two court cases cited in the episode:
Washington DC Court Case
New York Court Case
Publish date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014
Description: President Obama floats some reform ideas for the gathering of data by the NSA and a judge strikes a blow against Net Neutrality. Dan has a few long-winded thoughts on both these subjects.
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Publish date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014
Description: The death of actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman has Dan contemplating how society might better handle the vagaries of human nature if we would be honest about what human beings often want.
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Publish date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014
Description: Ukraine has erupted in violence as protesters in Kiev oust the country’s leader. Dan thinks U.S. efforts to clandestinely support or encourage one side of the conflict are dangerously short sighted.
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]Publish date: Sat, 08 Mar 2014
Description: In the wake of Russia’s occupation of the Crimea, Dan thinks that NATO has had an “exposure moment”.How can NATO nations be protected without triggering World War 3? Dan has some radical thoughts on the subject.
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Publish date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014
Description: Russia annexes the Crimea and the intelligence community’s biggest supporter, Sen. Feinstein turns against the CIA. How can Dan choose between these two stories? He doesn’t. He deals with both of them in this episode.
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Publish date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014
Description: The Supreme Court says trading campaign contributions for political influence isn’t a bug in the U.S. system, it’s a feature. Dan weighs in on the ramifications of such a decision. Also, Cuban Twitter isn’t so Cuban.
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1. Text of Supreme Court decisionMcCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission
2. “US defends ‘Cuban Twitter’ creation” by Desmond Butler, Jack Gillum and Alberto Arce for the Associated Press, April 3, 2014.
Publish date: Wed, 07 May 2014
Description: Should police need a warrant to search the cellphones of arrested individuals? The Supreme Court is debating it and Dan is using it as a springboard to discuss the how our fear is affecting the 4th Amendment.
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1. “Supreme Court Considers Limits On Warrantless Cellphone Searches”by Nina Totenberg for NPR News, April 29, 2014
2. Supreme Court: Pennsylvania cops no longer need a warrant to search citizens’ vehicles” by Brett Hambright for the Lancaster Newspapers, May 1, 2014.
3. “Obama Administration Argues Cell Phone Searches to Court” by John Amaruso, for Liberty Voice, April 30, 2014.
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