While on a short break from our clandestine preparations for liberating Santa’s reindeer from chattel slavery, we recount some of the feedback we received on last month’s Chris Hedges interview. Then we review Alex Gibney’s documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks; do what may be our first ever science segment, about the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and the coming post-antibiotic age; and have our plans for an Escape Velocity Radio intern dashed by Charles Davis’ article about poorly-paid (and unpaid) interns, “The Exploited Labourers of the Liberal Media”.

Episode Links

• Losing Moses on the Freeway
• We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
• We Steal Secrets: Alex Gibney, WikiLeaks, & Julian Assange
• We Steal Secrets: A response from Alex Gibney
• Antibiotic resistance threats in the United States, 2013
• How Industrial Agriculture Has Thwarted Factory Farm Reforms
• Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future
• The Exploited Labourers of the Liberal Media

Episode Music

• Slapshot – Punk’s Dead, You’re Next
• Living Colour – Cult of Personality
• Christmas in the Stars – What Can You Get a Wookiee for Christmas (When He Already Owns a Comb?)