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In reply to the discussion: Mr. President, I take it personally: [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)124. Alfred McCoy explained Secret Government is why the pendulum won't swing back.
Prof. Alfred McCoy studied the history of the crimes of the secret national security state and found that when they previously occurred, there usually was a reaction from the party not in executive power. LBJ and COINTELPRO/CHAOS were countered by the Repuke investigators in the House and Senate; Nixon and Watergate were countered by the Church Committee and new Congressional oversight. Today there has been no response from either party when the other's treasons were exposed, thanks to the USA PATRIOT Act and the NSA warrantless full-spectrum spying op preventing the Constitutional pendulum from swinging.
Alfred W. McCoy
The Making of the US Surveillance State
(One 29min. program)
30 second Preview/Promo
In July 2013 an article appeared on line in TomDispatch that gave an up to date and chilling analysis of the unprecedented powers of the US Surveillance state. Its author, University of Wisconsin, Madison, professor of history Alfred McCoy, credits Edward Snowden for having revealed todays reality. And McCoy adds his perspective of the intriguing history that led up to this point - and he makes a few predictions as to what to expect in the near future. That article in TomDispatch caught the attention of radio host, writer and Middle East expert Jeff Blankfort who allows me to broadcast the highlights of his interview with Professor McCoy.
McCoy studied Southeast Asian history at Yale University before coming to Madison. In 1971 he was commissioned to write a book on the opium trade in Laos and discovered that the French equivalent to the CIA had financed its covert operations from the control of the Indochina drug trade. He also found evidence that after the US replaced the French the CIA took over the drug trade. Not surprisingly the CIA tried to block publication of the book The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia. But after three English editions and translation into nine foreign languages, this study is now regarded as the classic work on the global drug traffic.
Professor Alfred W. McCoy is the author of: The Politics Of Heroin (in 1972) and A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation from the Cold War to the War on Terror (published in 2006) A film based in part on that book, "Taxi to the Darkside," won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature in 2008. McCoys latest study of this topic, Torture and Impunity (Madison, 2012), explores the political and cultural dynamics of Americas post 9/11 debate over interrogation.This program was first aired on July 24, 2013 at KZYX Radio in Philo, CA.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175724/
http://history.wisc.edu/people/faculty/mccoy.htm
The 35 minute version is here: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/69998
SOURCE w/links to a durn good podcast: http://www.tucradio.org/new.html
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They left out that he had his DoJ help local police brutalize OWS protestors. nm
rhett o rick
Apr 2015
#100
No, with the 2016 campaign already heating up this is exactly the place where this
totodeinhere
Apr 2015
#102
And it was a fantastic movement. I wonder what would have happened if Theo Roosevelt had bucked the
Dark n Stormy Knight
Apr 2015
#101
I would like to see a list of what President Obama has done you find exceptable, hope
AuntPatsy
Apr 2015
#3
I think normally people overlook spelling errors, but it was intended as a critique of the OP...
cascadiance
Apr 2015
#122
I think it's only human nature to dwell on the things you disagree with rather than the
totodeinhere
Apr 2015
#103
No apology necessary. You did the correct thing and kept another Republican out of the
BlueCaliDem
Apr 2015
#22
Oh yes! And you've helped make AG Loretta Lynch a reality! Forgot about that.
BlueCaliDem
Apr 2015
#30
don't forget just how bad voting for his opponent in either of those elections
rurallib
Apr 2015
#125
Out of the 36% or so of eligible American voters who bothered to vote?
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Apr 2015
#33
No, that "36%" was 39.9% in 2010 and the I believe the 18% was only in California in 2014.
BlueCaliDem
Apr 2015
#38
Thank you for succinctly, in your header, stating exactly the reason
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Apr 2015
#60
Taking my words out of context is beneath an intelligent person like you, Erich.
BlueCaliDem
Apr 2015
#72
A lot of his voters from 2008 won't be voting for ANY Dem next time around, due in large part
Doctor_J
Apr 2015
#16
Dude, rainbows could come shooting out of Obama's behind and that won't change the minds of
underahedgerow
Apr 2015
#37
There's absolutely nothing in your list that's not spot-on. Sure feels like betrayal to me.
Scuba
Apr 2015
#13
IMO, you're a bit RW harsh with the 23 personally offended list. But there is some degree of Truth,
Sunlei
Apr 2015
#66
"[I]f American workers are being denied their right to organize when I'm in the White House, I will
midnight
Apr 2015
#90
http://www.diagonale.at/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/07-Illustration-von-Samuel-Goodrich-The-Wooden-Ho
blkmusclmachine
Apr 2015
#116
Alfred McCoy explained Secret Government is why the pendulum won't swing back.
Octafish
Apr 2015
#124
This the best and most complete list of Obama's "populist" hypocrisy I have ever seen published.
DrBulldog
Apr 2015
#144
I'm sure grateful that doesn't say McCain and/or Romney after Mr. President, though.
C Moon
Apr 2015
#159
Here it is toward the end of his tenure and you come up with 23 things that...
TreasonousBastard
Apr 2015
#180