ꕤ
Article
SOURCE
as marked
Years ago when Congressman Otis Pike investigated the CIA he concluded that it was an obedient arm of the executive branch.
And yes, accounts of a “rogue agency” are occasionally dusted off when the President needs plausible deniability but in general the spies in Langley do what they’re told. Pike concluded that it wasn’t just one or two bad apples in the barrel. He decided the whole barrel was bad. This no doubt explains why the government classified his report.
In a nutshell, then, the United States executive branch is being driven by corporate forces that transitively dictate the long-term strategic goals of the intelligence services.
Activists like William Blum have spent their lives investigating and carefully recording this reality. For additional illumination check out the War and Peace Studies performed by the Council on Foreign Relations during World War II on behalf of the State Department. It’s a flat out recipe for neoliberal hegemony. As Canadian filmmaker Scott Noble demonstrated in his movie “Counter-Intelligence,” the United States is part of a corporate empire and the intelligence services are the Praetorian Guard of this empire.
So Glenn, does this mean that addressing mass surveillance, and the mass subversion which enables it, will entail tackling the related problem of corporate state capture? Or, as Sheldon Wolin refers to it, the specter of inverted totalitarianism?
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/06/19/an-open-letter-to-glenn-greenwald/
Sheldon Wolin
Writer
"American political theorist and writer on contemporary politics. One of the most original and influential American political theorists of the past fifty years ..."
---------------------- ꕤ ----------------------
COMMENT
No time to check this out properly.
I just think it's cool that there's a name for usurping government: 'corporate state capture' & 'inverted totalitarianism'.
So when I'm throwing around 'totalitarianism', it's good to know I'm not crazy. lol
ꕤ
|
No comments:
Post a Comment