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Digital Blackwater: How the NSA Gives Private Contractors Control of the Surveillance State
As the Justice Department prepares to file charges against Booz Allen Hamilton employee Edward Snowden for leaking classified documents about the National Security Agency, the role of private intelligence …
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: “I don’t want to live in a society that does these sort of things”
Guardian's Glenn Greenwald talks to Edward Snowden, the source behind the NSA files about his motives for the biggest intelligence leak in a generation
Former CIA Analyst: Snowden Did The Right Thing
Ray McGovern: NSA whistleblower Snowden courageous defender of liberty.
“On a Slippery Slope to a Totalitarian State”: NSA Whistleblower Rejects Government Defense of Spying
Democracy Now! speaks with William Binney, a former top official at the National Security Agency, and Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who has broken the NSA spying stories.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Sanders to Introduce Bill to Fund Youth Jobs With $3 Billion, and More
In today's On the News segment: Billionaire admits to Senate subcommittee that middle class, not rich ‘job creators,’ anchors of the US economy.
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Investing in Schools Creates More Than Twice as Many Jobs as Military Spending
Bob Pollin: Education spending is the best job creator - so why are local and state governments firing teachers and closing schools?
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“A Massive Surveillance State”: Glenn Greenwald Exposes Covert NSA Program Collecting Calls, Emails
The National Security Agency has obtained access to the central servers of nine major Internet companies - including Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo! and Facebook.
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Bank Profits Soar, Wages Suffer Sharpest Decline in 60 Years
Bill Black: The economy is recovering - unless you work for a paycheck.
The Price of Power to a Nation
On the sprawling Navajo Nation and the Hopi Reservation it surrounds, Peabody Western Coal Company routinely uproots families to extract coal that provides cheap electricity for much of the …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Walmart Is Using the Court System to Silence Protesters, and More
In today's On the News segment: Walmart is using the court system to silence protesters; a Senate Committee advanced bipartisan legislation to create a federal licensing program for insurance …