Thursday, August 8, 2013

Breaking the Set No. 220 -- 2013 Aug 08 TH

Conference Call with the Legion of Doom, Syria: The Next World War, ALEC's Backwards Policies

On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin calls out DOD for exposing its own secrets, citing the leak that about a foiled al Qaeda plot uncovered by NSA surveillance. Abby then talks to Eugene Puryear, organizer with the ANSWER Coalition, about the latest in the Syrian conflict, citing a death toll that has surpassed 100 thousand people, and international tensions being played out on the ground in Syria. BTS wraps up the show with a closer at the 40 year track record of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), talking to Brendan Fischer, General Counsel at the Center for Media and Democracy, about what the group is discussing behind closed doors at ALEC's annual conference in Chicago, and some of the most damaging policies that have been enacted over the last half decade.

Audio file link: http://www.sendspace.com/file/tk3rtq



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