Who’s in Charge of the Internet? Privacy, GeoPolitics & the Big Chill

Discussion on International Privacy Laws and how geopolitics affects speech and what can be said on the internet across borders. Further discussion on retrieving data across borders when a US warrant has issued – even though those who wish to retrieve the data use a US warrant, data stored across borders may not be accessible. The discussion of geopolitics, internet privacy and how speech can be chilled by countries and foreign citizens wishing to remain anonymous.
Guest: Attorney & Professor of International Law, Vivek Krishnamurthy, Harvard Law School.

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The Common Good Nation – A Nation Defined by Agreement

Guest: Dr. Terry Mollner, PhD. He is the Co-Founder of the Calvert Social Investment Funds–the first family of investment funds focusing on social responsibility; he is also an active & vocal Board Member of Ben & Jerry’s–helping to negotiate a buyout with international conglomerate Unilever–a successful negotiation that would not only leave the social mission of Ben & Jerry’s intact, but so successful, that it would be adopted by Unilever worldwide. Dr. Mollner is the author of numerous books on promoting the ‘Common Good’, social justice, cooperation by agreement, and working to ‘reverse’ the traditional bottom-line of profits over people.

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Public Education in America: Under Control, or Under Siege?

Guest: Dr. Meira Levinson, Professor of Education at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education & Founder of JusticeinSchools.org .Discussion with Attorney & Policy Analyst, Mary Kay Elloian on how some public schools in America are making the grades –and how some are not. And, how the jury is still out on the effect DeVos will have on our educational system.

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Youth Plaintiff’s Suing US Gov’t Over Right to Inherit a Habitable Planet

Girls, Children, Tulips, Netherlands

April 23, 2017 – Just as Earth Day got unprecedented viewership with marches all over the US and the world, where scientists marched in droves to protect our planet, demand money not be cut by Drumpf administration for EPA and science exploration and research, a group of children may be in the best position to made adults squirm as so many callously disregard the next generation’s right to “inherit” a habitable planet as all previous generations have done.

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Trump, A President in Search of a Warrantless Intrusion

March 7, 2017 – Just as Donald Trump is bristling over what he contends is a warrantless intrusion into the caverns of Trump Tower and he’s beloved privacy-here are the real issues. First, the likelihood that there really is a wiretap is quite suspect–after reading the dossier by the former…

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