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We begin with threats made by Glenn Greenwald that he would publish secrets about England’s spy system that would make the British government “sorry for what they did” for detaining his partner at London’s Heathrow Airport. NSA whistleblower William Binney, who served 37 years at the National Security Agency rising to the rank of Technical Director of the World Geopolitical and Military Analysis and Reporting Group, joins us to talk about the escalating war between the leakers and the governments.

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Then on the sixtieth anniversary of the 1953 coup in Iran, we discuss what the CIA finally admitted to in a declassified report that states “the military coup that overthrew Mossadegh and his National Front cabinet was carried out under CIA direction as an act of U.S. foreign policy, conceived and approved at the highest levels of government”.  Iranian/American historian Dr. Maziar Behrooz joins us to analyze the legacy of this less-than surprising secret American coup that placed the Shah on the peacock throne.

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Then finally, we assess the fate of San Diego’s embattled Mayor Bob Filner, now know as “filthy Filner”, against whom a recall election had just been announced. Steven Erie, a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Urban Studies Program at the University of  California, San Diego and author of “Paradise Plundered: Fiscal Crisis and Governance Failures in San Diego”, joins us to discuss the serial sex scandal enveloping America’s eighth largest city.

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We begin with the only journalist to interview Edward Snowden since he surfaced in Hong Kong, Peter Maass, a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine where he recently wrote an 8,000 word profile of Laura Poitras “How Laura Poitras Help Snowden Spill his Secrets”.  We discuss how Peter Maass was able to get the interview and what he knows about who has custody of the thousands of top secrets Edward Snowden left the country with, a small portion of which have been made public.

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Then we examine the role of the reactionary Mubarak-era media in Egypt and the extent to which it is driving the polarization as Egypt descends into violence. Noha Radwan, a professor of Arabic and comparative literature at the University of California, Davis, joins us discuss how both the government and the independent TV channels have inflamed the deep divisions with frenzied descriptions of the Muslim Brotherhood as “terrorists” by the pro-military media while the pro-Islamist media portrays the current regime as “fascists”.

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Then finally we get a flavor of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International’s trade show underway at the vast Washington Convention Center where the 600 vendors are showing off the latest in drone technology, surveillance equipment and hi-tech sensors for both military and civilian use. Alexei Koseff, a multi-media journalist currently reporting for The Los Angeles Times’ Washington Bureau joins us to discuss his article in The Los Angeles Times with Brian Bennett “Drones Descend on Washington – Just for Show” and the FAA’s opening up of the nation’s airspace in 2015 to an estimated 10,000 unmanned aircraft by 2020.