The Peter B Collins Show (Audio)

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  PBC News & Comment Thursday, May 24

  5/24/2012

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  Duration: 13:33

  [Next report 5/29]  US media finally covers student protests in Quebec over 75% tuition increase;  no breakthrough at Iran talks in Baghdad, but they will keep talking;    Also: –Senate panel’s symbolic cuts in Pakistan aid –official criticism of prosecutors in case of Sen. Ted Stevens–same is overdue in Siegelman case –Rachel Maddow does great job [...]

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  PBC News & Comment Wednesday, May 23

  5/24/2012

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  Duration: 19:42

  FBI competes with NSA with new Domestic Communications Assistance Center to crack Skype and install a “backdoor” in all systems; White House now manages all drones    more on drones:  ACLU objects to US law enforcement using drones with weapons even more on drones:  US agrees to sell a fleet to Iraq –Gareth Porter does more [...]

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  PBC News & Comment Tuesday, May 22

  5/23/2012

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  Duration: 30:28

  U Mich Prof. Juan Cole warns of creeping fascism in American politics, and we hear an excerpt from our Robert Parry interview about the NY Times’ failures re the Libyan convicted for PanAm 103   Parry also talks about some interesting angles on Watergate, 40 years after the break-ins led to Nixon’s downfall. –Roger Shuler reports [...]

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  PBC News & Comment Monday, May 21

  5/22/2012

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  Duration: 25:16

  BeeGee Barry Gibb dies, left us more than disco hits; NATO protesters in Chicago police raid were making beer, not molotov cocktails; NATO meeting delivers phony Afghan exit optics   Also: –in Yemen, suicide mober kills96 –New Yorker May 14 issue has lengthy report on the new American drone industry and use of drones in the [...]

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  PBC News & Comment Friday, May 18

  5/18/2012

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  Duration: 19:36

  GOP-run House rejects effort to fix NDAA in line with the court ruling we reported here yesterday; House also rejects Rep. Barbara Lee’s bill to pull out of Afghanistan pronto–as NATO invades Chicago    In advance of the meetings in Rahm Emmanuel’s maximum security zone, the White House is lowering expectations about conditions required for our [...]

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  PBC News & Comment Thursday, May 17

  5/18/2012

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  Duration: 23:26

  NY Federal court puts the worst section of NDAA on hold–attorney Carl Mayer talks about the decision here and in our latest in-depth interview; US envoy tells Israel: We’ll hit Iran   Also: –DEA action in Honduras leaves 4 dead, causes riots –GOP plays games with Violence Against Women Act renewal –Greece forms caretaker government –International [...]

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  PBC News & Comment Wednesday, May 16

  5/17/2012

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  Duration: 10:22

  More misguided deficit talk in Washington, as Boehner vows to extend Bush tax cuts and Obama threatens to veto defense bill–which includes a bogus Star Wars system to defend NJ   Today’s report is shorter than usual; your humble host subbed on the syndicated Karel Show and was pressed for time. Also covered: –defense rests in [...]

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  PBC News & Comment, Tuesday May 15

  5/15/2012

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  Duration: 21:48

  Obama parties with Ricky Martin, gets more comfortable with the marriage issue, as VA blocks gay man’s judicial appointment and NC arrests lesbians seeking marriage license.  In an excerpt from today’s in-depth interview, Tom Frank says Obama’s switch was prompted by weak campaign fundraising. Also: –Frank also commented on the late Andrew Breitbart, whose junior [...]

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  PBC News & Comment Monday, May 14

  5/15/2012

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  Duration: 24:11

  Roy Zimmerman opens with his latest, Romney Mitt, the Demon Barber of Wall Street, a great set up for JP Morgan’s $2 billion trading loss, and the need for cops on Wall St.  Also: –Gov. Jerry Brown announces $16 billion shortfall, so California gets austerity that will produce another recession –Greece still can’t form a [...]

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  PBC News & Comment Friday, May 11

  5/11/2012

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  Duration: 27:38

  More gay marriage reaction, as Biden apologizes to Obama for triggering the change;  PBS refers to areas with bigots as areas where “same sex marriage ‘resonates’”.  Also: –Mary Boyle of Common Cause challenges ALEC’s tax exempt status, in excerpt from podcast 469 –concocted underwear bomber plot leads to more police state activity in the US [...]