As News Corp. owner Rupert Murdoch tries to minimize the phone-hacking scandal that has led to several arrests and snared British officials and police in a web of unethical and possibly criminal behavior, U.S. public interest groups and some members of Congress are seizing the opportunity to call attention to the dangers of too much media in too few powerful hands. And a “broadband underclass” is developing in America as some populations soar with the fastest broadband connections available and others plod along with slow or no connections at all.

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This week's show features stories from China Radio International, NHK Japan, Radio Deutsche-Welle, Radio Havana Cuba, and the Voice of Russia.

Compañeros estudiantes de Comunicación Social de la UAM-Xochimilco e integrantes del proyecto de "Radio Asta", entrevistaron el 20 de julio de 2011 a Beatriz Solís, maestra de la misma universidad y experta sobre el tema de las radios comunitarias en México.

Here is the playlist from our July 20 broadcast:

"Does Perpetual War Mean the End of Truth, Does Working as a Hotel Maid Mean Inviting Rape and Does Prison Mean You're No Longer Human?"

Robert Parry, Journalist and Author, Consortiumnews.com,talks about the neo-con political agenda deeply embedded in the mainstream media and what that means for digging out the truth.

Gail Dines, Author of Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality, dissects the assault on the immigrant African hotel maid who has accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of raping her and concludes this is a story hatched in Pornland.

This audio interview between NACLA and the Center for Biological Diversity looks at the myraid environmental and Native American heritage laws that the Department of Homeland Security waived in 2008 to construct 470 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border. While environmental groups and Native Americans say that waiving these laws to create these walls have done tremendous damage to ecological and human communities along the border, this law-waiving-fervor has gone in vogue in some sectors in Washington, all in the name of "securing our borders."