We open with an excerpt from our interview with Robert Parry, who examines why mainstream media is ignoring Hersh's explosive report...Click here for free audiobook download from Audible, and generate $15 to the PBC Podcast!
--Robert Parry follows Seymour Hersh expose on the Syrian sarin gas event last August: Obama, Kerry and media maintain Syria was to blame, despite strong evidence
--Texas Gov. Rick Perry defies Congress on Prison Rape Elimination Act, fine report from Truthout
--Nevada rancher defies feds over cattle grazing on federal lands, and BLM has impounded his cattle
--German Chancellor Merkel has demanded her NSA file, but no response so far
--Reps. Schiff (D-CA) and Jones (R-NC) sponsor Drone Strike Transparency Act
--Steve Horn reports on another TransCanada pipeline to export fracked gas from the US
--in California drought response, Sen. Feinstein favors farms over fish
--listener Andy Dral emails with important comments on how Obama economic policies benefit the rich, and corporations
--Jess Winchester died, Everybody Knows But Me
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