Media Roots Radio - Snowden, Greenwald, Wikileaks & the NSA

Media Roots Radio

Abby & Robbie Martin

News

4.6 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2014

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Media Roots Radio, Robbie and Abby Martin detail the history of the NSA’s ‘Program’ as told in PBS’ State of Secrets and the whistleblowing by Thomas Drake, Bill Binney and eventually Edward Snowden. They also examine several of the criticisms coming towards Greenwald and Snowden from the left leaning alternative-media and more ‘fringe’ circles of the Internet, such as ‘there’s nothing new in the documents’and that ‘they aren’t releasing them fast enough’. They also discuss the near death of Net Neutrality, Uruguay’s badass president and the dark underbelly of corporate surveillance. For more information visit: www.mediaroots.org

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0:00.0	This is the Cold War. The Cold War has begun again.
0:13.0	This is the Cold War. The Cold War has begun again.
0:17.0	Fuck the EU.
0:20.0	Fuck the EU. Fuck the EU. This is Abby Martin. This is Bobby Martin. This is Abby Martin.
0:39.0	This is Robbie Martin.
0:40.8	There's a lot of cool stuff going on.
0:42.6	I'm in town, so we're doing a quick little podcast,
0:45.0	catching you guys up on some shit.
0:48.1	Uruguay's president is absolutely insanely awesome.
0:53.9	Not only is he... So not only did it legalize wheat in the country, but he also legalized same-sex marriage.
0:59.7	Then I heard that he was taking in Syrian refugees to his presidential palace.
1:04.7	Like dozens of just children who are refugees just opening his palace to them.
1:09.5	He's living on his wife's farm and he's giving 90% of his earnings to charity.
1:15.1	He's also an atheist.
1:17.2	And there's one other amazing thing.
1:18.9	Oh yeah, he just took the like a couple of Guantanamo detainees into this country too.
1:22.6	Isn't that insane?
1:24.0	Yeah.
1:24.9	He's like Cincinnati.
1:26.6	His name is Jose Pepe Mujica and and he's just a complete badass former guerrilla fighter,
1:32.4	was in prison for over 10 years in his country before rising to power.
1:37.7	Just really amazing guy that every leader should really look up to.
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