Chalmers Johnson, author of Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic discusses America’s dissent down the path of militarism, secrecy, empire, authoritarianism and destruction, the role of the military industrial complex and the mass media and hope for a mass movement to restore the constitution.
Great interview. He makes a good point in that the corporate media never allows the public to collectively focus on the real issues at hand while we waste our time discussing drivel…
Yeah, and we have an “…outmoded and irrelevant academic doctrine of free trade†!!! Sheesh.
Former CIA director, Admiral Stansfield Turner, back in 2003 also looked at the ancient Greek concept of Hubris when analysing the US war on Iraq in 2003. See here. And so did the admirable satirists of “The Onion”. See here.