I was on Abby Martin’s Breaking the Set program on RT America this evening. The video is posted below.
We discussed the NSA leaks and everything related to it, including, briefly, my own disturbing experience — which I have in common with Glenn Greenwald — when we were both targeted by a cyber-scheme devised by government defense contractors set to turn tools developed for the “War on Terror” against us, at the behest of major corporate interests.
That is some of what The BRAD BLOG’s legal analyst, Ernie Canning was attempting to warn about in his piece this morning on the many broad dangers of what has now become a massive, privatized, largely unaccountable, secret U.S. national security and surveillance state….
[I join Abby just after the 4:00 minute mark, for about 9 minutes.]
If everyone were made to read George Orwell’s “1984” nothing would really surprise anyone. Our societies have been weaving there ways toward this scenario for decades, although in an insidious manner not detectable by an ever increasing dim-witted populace.
I read recently that “1984” is selling briskly again. Given that the best-seller list had a bit of controversy a few years back over a “docu-fiction” book about the president being listed as non-fiction, perhaps a grass-roots effort to have “1984” moved to the non-fiction category as well would provoke some debate.