On Monday morning’s Democracy Now! (January 5, 2015) author, lawyer, and Harper's Magazine staff writer Scott Horton was talking about the mushrooming of secrecy in our belligerent operations, such as the recent drone strike in Waziristan, Pakistan, that killed 9 people, and how the CIA has taken over war-making powers, which they cloak with secrecy “for national security reasons,” of course. He notes that our sloppy drone warfare has drawn together the Islamic radicals and the village councils, which formerly kept their distance from each other. But the villages have suffered far too many needless casualties in this undeclared and mostly secret war. So now we have a bigger enemy, with more recruitment, of course.
If we put that together with James Risen's new book, Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War, the real agenda becomes apparent: it’s a huge money-maker for the National Security state, the armaments manufacturers, contractors, etc. We’re essentially in the same position as Egypt under al-Sisi's current dictatorship: the military, a major profit-making organization, has taken over the state to insure its own continued income. We do it more subtly, more indirectly, in a more hidden fashion with a more complicit mainstream media—and on a much grander scale.
Disgusting; anti-democratic, a real usurpation of power. This is the "End of America," that Naomi Wolf writes about. It is probably also the reason the government is out to get Risen, demanding he reveal his sources or face prison—he really spills the beans on what this is all about, viz. money, viz. a $70 billion industry, all emerging from the founding myth of 9/11, as Dick Cheney reminded us in his now infamous Meet the Press interview last month, where he said he’d “do it again in a minute,” namely torture (though even the CIA admits it’s ineffectual) which according to him, has prevented another terrorist attack. Horton hits him hard with the legal definition of “depravity,” namely the advocacy of actions that heedlessly cause harm to innocent people. Then he criticizes the press for giving such a criminal so much air time, with so little for his critics, and with no challenges to his outlandish statements.
If we put that together with James Risen's new book, Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War, the real agenda becomes apparent: it’s a huge money-maker for the National Security state, the armaments manufacturers, contractors, etc. We’re essentially in the same position as Egypt under al-Sisi's current dictatorship: the military, a major profit-making organization, has taken over the state to insure its own continued income. We do it more subtly, more indirectly, in a more hidden fashion with a more complicit mainstream media—and on a much grander scale.
Disgusting; anti-democratic, a real usurpation of power. This is the "End of America," that Naomi Wolf writes about. It is probably also the reason the government is out to get Risen, demanding he reveal his sources or face prison—he really spills the beans on what this is all about, viz. money, viz. a $70 billion industry, all emerging from the founding myth of 9/11, as Dick Cheney reminded us in his now infamous Meet the Press interview last month, where he said he’d “do it again in a minute,” namely torture (though even the CIA admits it’s ineffectual) which according to him, has prevented another terrorist attack. Horton hits him hard with the legal definition of “depravity,” namely the advocacy of actions that heedlessly cause harm to innocent people. Then he criticizes the press for giving such a criminal so much air time, with so little for his critics, and with no challenges to his outlandish statements.
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