If Edward Snowden is proving one thing, it’s this: in 2013, Planet Earth isn’t big enough to protect the American version of “dissidents.” Instead, it looks ever more like a giant prison with a single implacable policeman, judge, jury, and jailer.
Truthout — | News Analysis
How to Be a Rogue Superpower
Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch
Global totalitarianism is only possible for an empire. When is the president going to stop the pretense and start using his real title.
What Englehardt calls "deterence" is, of course, intimidation. Is the next step public execution.
