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Background Briefing has a new home at BackgroundBriefing.org.
Please visit and bookmark the new site. You can search show archives here.
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| We begin with the co-founder and co-director of CODEPINK, Jodie Evans, and discuss plans that the peace, environment, women’s rights and social justice activist has to celebrate Mother’s Day. We discuss Thursday’s “Close Gitmo Now” rally at the West Los Angeles Federal Building and the continuing stain that America’s gulag at Guantanamo is for the United States overseas, and the perversion of justice it represents as it undermines our values at home. |
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Then we analyze the recently-released report by the Pentagon on China’s military capabilities and discuss the Administration’s public efforts to call out China on its widespread use of cyber-espionage that targets American corporate and government secrets. Alan Paller, the director of research at the SANS Institute who issues the annual “Greatest Risks to Cyber Security” study, joins us to discuss growing concerns that America’s drones and missiles can be captured in cyber attacks and re-directed to targets chosen by our adversaries. |
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Then finally we look into the deceptive political campaign organized by Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg and other tech billionaires, that is supposed to be about promoting immigration reform, but has instead financed TV ads that slam Obama’s so-called “Chicago-style politics”, attack Obamacare and promote the Keystone XL pipeline and drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge. Josh Orton, the Political director at Progressives United, who are leading a coalition of activist groups to pull ads from Facebook, joins us to discuss the social media mogul’s wolf in sheep’s clothing politics. |
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