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Part 1

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.

Part 2

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”.

Part 3

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.

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Part 2

Then we speak with one of America’s premier military experts who, along with the Washington Post’s Dana Priest, wrote the groundbreaking expose of the privatized national security state “Top Secret America”. William Arkin joins us to discuss his explosive follow-up “American Coup: How a Terrified Government is Destroying the Constitution”. We discuss his brand new book that describes the desk-bound takeover of the highest reaches of government by a coterie of “gray men” of the national security establishment that he calls the executive agents. We look into how doomsday has become every day in contemporary America as a result of the forever war and how the mechanism is already in place for an American coup that William Arkin warns about in this latest and most powerful reminder of our fading freedoms that we are trading away for a fictional guarantee of security.