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Catherine's avatar

Wonderful piece, beautifully put

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Boris Petrov's avatar

YouTube has been re-circulating a 2015 speech Glenn Greenwald gave at the Univ. of Utah at the height of the Snowden reporting. Here's what he said about secrecy and the security state:

"What you have is a government inside a government, an undemocratic apparatus making all of the decisions beneath a shell of democracy—something that looks like a democracy and is called a democracy, but has almost none of the properties a democracy is defined by."

Glenn Greenwald: "Edward Snowden and the Secrets of the National Security State" - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1jAOJHvll0&t=1s

One of the most damaging aspects of Russia-gate and the ongoing liberal union with CIA/neocons was it took a fundamental fact about US political life -- the dominance and supreme danger of the Deep State -- and turned it into a conspiracy theory no decent person should believe.

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