The Ghost Rapes of Bolivia

How We Met: Paul Simonon & Peter Ackroyd

Alexa O'Brien: Manning a litmus test of American justice

John Cusack: Will Eric Holder guarantee NSA reporters' first amendment rights?

Sherwood & Pinch Interview

US Journalist and activist Alexa O'Brien and Australian commentator Robert Manne are joined by video conference with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, Guardian Journalist Glenn Greenwald and Chelsea Manning's Lawyer David Coombs on stage at the Sydney Opera House (moderated by Bernard Keane of Crikey).
Powerful governments are waging a war on whistleblowers and those involved in publishing their material. Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum in Russia, Manning has been convicted of espionage and is awaiting sentencing, and Julian Assange has been granted asylum by Ecuador but cannot step outside its London Embassy. It's clear that the actions of whistleblowers and their publishers - 'traitors' as they are known to some - have come at a significant personal cost, and while the human drama of these stories is engrossing, the focus should be on the very real issues they've raised: surveillance, press freedom, privacy, secrecy, and accountability.
The roles of governments and corporations in the future of the internet, and their use and abuse of data, have been put under the global spotlight. In the wake of Manning, Snowden and Wikileaks, we finally have the scope to properly debate the need for government transparency and the trade-off between privacy and security.
Watch our expert panel discuss the implications of the war on whistleblowers for the main actors, and the consequences if that war is lost for the rest of us
Looking forward to the Melbourne leg of this tonight

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Pedro Reyes Is Turning Weapons Into Instruments

The Banality of Systemic Evil

Kill ALL Hippies

A Jihad Called Heavy Metal/Heavy Metal Muslims

The Tasmania solution: send refugees there instead of Papua New Guinea

From Hiroshima to Damascus

Full Playlist

[01]. Cold Witness
[02]. Shockwork
[03]. Compulsion
[04]. The Fall from Light
[05]. Total State Machine
[06]. Mirbach
[07]. Inheritance
[08]. V.F.M.

How Guantanamo Bay Became the Place the U.S. Keeps Detainees

Molly Crabapple: No One Reads Kafka in Gitmo

The members of Wilco joined Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot the week after 9/11 and before the release of their now classic album, "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot."
This show aired before the show moved to public radio & WBEZ
(Thanx Stan!)

How a Relationship Dies on Facebook

Inside the mind of NSA chief Gen Keith Alexander

Artist Tacita Dean talks to Adrian Searle about her epic search for Robert Smithson's ethereal earthwork Spiral Jetty in Utah – and how she discovered that JG Ballard shared her adoration of the land artist. The former Turner prize nominee, who displayed filmic work at Tate Modern's Turbine Hall in 2011, exhibits the new videowork called JG alongside a series of postcards from prewar Kassel in Germany, over-painted by the artist to show 70 years of change. The show is at London's Frith Street Gallery from Friday to 26 October
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The cosmic clock with Ballard at its core

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More Detroit Techno mixes from The Score HERE

Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems'

History offers a cautionary tale about ridding Syria of poison gases

As outrage roils over Syria’s chemical-weapons use, America’s destructive Agent Orange legacy lingers

U.N. Report Will Point to Assad Regime in Massive Chemical Attack

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A Plea for Caution From Russia

However the previous time Putin wrote in the New York Times in 1999 he said:
'...Sadly, decisive armed intervention was the only way to prevent further casualties...'