Trevor Timm is back with an update on Julian Assange's extradition hearing. Timm was a witness for the defense, where he argued against the idea that what Assange and WikiLeaks do is categorically different than the activity of other journalists. The prosecution has...
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9/28/20 Kevin Gosztola: Week Four of the Assange Extradition Hearing
Kevin Gosztola is back for another update on Julian Assange's extradition hearing, where most recently the defense has been debunking the prosecution's claim that Assange engaged in a hacking scheme with Chelsea Manning. Gosztola says the defense was able to establish...
Study Shows Vitamin D Supplement Protects Against Covid-19
From Genetic And Engineering News "According to Holick, the newly reported study provides a simple and cost-effective strategy to improve the body’s ability to fight the coronavirus and reduce the adverse clinical outcomes of COVID-19, including requiring ventilator...
9/25/20 Jessica Katzenstein on the Militarization of American Police
Scott talks to Jessica Katzenstein from the Costs of War Project about her recent paper on the effects of America's foreign wars on police militarization. She and Scott trace police militarization to the escalation of the war on drugs in the 1990s, when SWAT raids...
Breonna Taylor: The Stupid Cop May Have Shot Partner in the Leg
Ballistics report doesn't support Kentucky AG's claim that Breonna Taylor's boyfriend shot cop A Kentucky State Police ballistics report does not support state Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s assertion that Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, shot a...
9/25/20 Grant Smith on the Israel Lobby, Tech Censorship and the 1619 Project
Scott talks to Grant Smith about his ongoing work on the Israel lobby and its influence in America. Scott likens the story of Israel and Palestine to the history of the U.S. government and the Native Americans—for a long time everyone learned a skewed version that...
9/25/20 Trevor Aaronson on the FBI’s Latest Fake Terrorism Entrapment Scheme
Trevor Aaronson discusses the FBI's dubious techniques for luring people into fake terrorist plots, which very often border on entrapment. In this case he takes up the story of two Americans involved in the "boogaloo" movement, who were approached by FBI agents...
Are States Inevitable? Ep. 131
https://youtu.be/4KiNyw7uSx8 If the governments of the world have formed and persist in a state of anarchy, does it follow that the State is an inevitable institution? How would a libertarian anarchist society prevent being conquered by a state or prevent itself from...
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