This human being is Fucken awesome!!!! Glen this is the first time I heard you tonite...thank you for doing and saying something for people that don't pay attention to everything that MATTERS!!!
My law school constitutional law professor was Russell Galloway, LL.B . He taught at Santa Clara School of Law during the late 70' s and into the 80s. He was articulate, moral, humble and brilliant. I know that he would be on youtube now, but his early demise stopped all that. RIP Russ
I lived abroad for 20 years and and no where have I ever seen such blatant disregard for core ethics in human relations as in the U.S. which seemed to start when Reagan was elected. Somewhere along the way the American public has internalized a righteous "maximize profit at all costs" with "me, me, me" and turned that into a way of life. This version of the American Dream has been causing a lot of suffering all over the world and now it is causing a lot of suffering in the 50 states. Corporations, elected officials and the media take full of advantage of this to maximize profits; it's a vicious cycle. Thanks to Mr. Greenwald for speaking out.
Hmm.... I now find myself _strongly revising_ my previous (i.e. negative) views about Mr. Greenwald; I didn't really know what he's about. That has changed. Good man, and yes - Brilliant!
Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, and Naomi Klein are the three journalist/ authors who always come to mind as foremost in their honesty, willingness to confront and expose whatever evidence reveals, and take any heat or retaliation completely confident with what they present, and conclusions reached. Having said that, what compelled this note was how similar Mr. Greenwald's expression regarding experiences and the thread of his thinking... observation, consideration, conclusion... How similar it was to the subtext Orwell ascribed to what Winston was thinking during his conversation with O'Brien about the psychology underlying the Party. I am not saying this from any alarmist, or whatever kind of view... Because, as Orwell states, "all power flow's to one hand"... so, even Orwell is telling us, "Hey, what I'm trying to get you to recognize is this is a process, this is what happens." So, I'm not trying to claim or say anything other than, Mr. Greenwald described and seemed to understand the ongoing process of all power flowing to one hand... the Party. And, the interesting aspect for me is that, as seems to always happen, we allow it. We will either make the necessary intellectual progress required to move beyond our archaic, primitive, and inhuman systems, beginning with Money-- Capitalism, Markets-- by removing money in favor of access, abundance, and sustainability with the Scientific Method and Technological Advance as the fundamental and controlling reference. This will remove the justification or need to have borders, nationalities, "races,"... we will have the liberty to recognize there is only one RACE... Human, there is only one PLANET... Earth. It's either this, or perish. Personally, I am not convinced our Species is prepared to make the intellectual progress needed. Sorry, to carry on so long...
Hello Glenn i think you may understand me more when i say ive been having a breakdown but this is only going to strengthen me to put my points accross like you
@ 14:10 `We are a country at endless war. / I've been doing a lot of work on the attempts to intimidate animal rights activists. People who heroically go into industrial farms and liberate animals from the suffering and torture to which they're barbarically subjected, for no good reason than just to maximize profit. One of the things that the agricultural industry has done, as you might know, is that they've used their influence through lobbyists, money and control of government at the state and federal levels to enact what are called ag-gag laws, which actually make it illegal, a felony, for activists to go in and get a job at these factory farms in order to film the savagery, barbarism and torture that takes place at them in order to show the public. / They don't want anyone to see the carnage because by keeping the carnage invisible, people can just kind of turn away from it. I think that is very much the tactic that the US government uses as well. As long as we don't have to see the victims and hear about the victims [of our drone strikes and military raids] ... it's really an interesting dynamic: if there's a terrorist attack in the west, we hear so much information about the victims of the attack, as we should, we learn their names, their extinguished life aspirations, we hear from their grieving relatives, we have parades in their honor and politicians going to their funerals, we really consecrate their lives and their deaths in ways that really affect us. We never, I don't think the average American can name a single victim of America's war on terror even though they number in the many hundreds of thousands. America's war victims are completely invisible for the same reason that the carnage in our factory farms is: by hiding the carnage, we get to turn away. / We don't, as a media or as a country, look at the actual human suffering and killing that we cause.`
