June 13 - The Enablers of Outsourced Intelligence; Why No Coverage of the Good Economic News?; America's Worst Charities

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Part 1	We begin with Tim Shorrock, a Washington-based investigative reporter and author of “Spies For Hire: The Secret World of Outsourced Intelligence”, and discuss his article at The Nation “A Modern-Day Stassi State” and the role of ex-NSA and CIA head General Hayden and others who accelerated the privatization of intelligence to the point where today over two thirds of the intelligence budget goes to private contractors.
Part 2	Then we examine why the good news about the improving economy has not been covered in the press in contrast to the earlier flood of “the sky is falling” reports parroting propaganda from deficit hawks like the Wall Street billionaire Pete Peterson. Mark Blyth, a Professor of International Economy at Brown University and author of “Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea” joins us to discuss how America escaped the austerity trap that has mired the Eurozone, even thought the deficit hawks are still demanding we follow Europe’s disastrous path.
Part 3	Then finally we look into a new report from a year-long investigation by CNN, The Tampa Bay Times and the Center for Investigative Journalism into the 50 worst charities in the United State who took in a billion dollars last year and only spent 50 million on the needy. Kendall Taggert, a researcher and writer for the Center for Investigative Reporting joins us to discuss the report on America’s worst charities which is available at cironline.org and the scandalous fleecing of generous Americans who think they are donating to help dying children.