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| We begin with the president's trip to Africa where, before heading to Tanzania and on to South Africa on Friday, today in Senegal he visited the departure point for thousands of slaves who were taken to the new world. Deborah Brautigam, the author of The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa, joins us to discuss the subtext of Obama's trip in terms of U.S. and Chinese competition on the continent for influence and resources. |
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Then, we speak with David Freeman, an energy insider who is a leading authority on the production, management and delivery of energy to large populations. We discuss President Obama's recent speech on addressing the challenge of climate change where Obama said America would take the lead and redouble its efforts to assault global warming by phasing out coal plants and swtiching to natural gas, which our guest considers is going from bad to bad. |
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| Finally, with the president saying that there would be "no wheeling and dealing" to try to extradite Edward Snowden from Russia, we examine the extent to which the former employee with a contractor for the National Security Agency who is on the run fits the definition of a whistleblower. Kathleen McClellan, the National Security and Human Rights Counsel at the Government Accountability Project where she supports national security and intelligence community whistleblowers, joins us to discuss the fugitive American's limited options. |
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