The amorphous nature of wars since at least the dawn of the Cold War in the mid-1940s has meant that the U.S. has more or less been at war for generations. This, in turn, has precipitated the ever-burgeoning war-industrial-intelligence complex. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\"Listen, all these kids here with a piece, I'd written a line in a song on my last record about \"Kids with Uzis, ice suckers, Death is a always thing.\" You can't get away from that mess. Whatever the kids got, the adults put them in their hands. They don't know what the hell they're doing, the kids.\" <\/p>\n
I have tended to see whistleblowers as courageous individuals performing an often useful function, but also as slightly crazy vigilantes who were participating in that conspiracy against confidentiality, and thus against privacy. <\/p>\n
Our state of affairs goes against a pinnacle of American justice, equality before law, facilitating everything from war crimes, to torture, to domestic spying, to a predatory, ravenous Wall Street that feeds on the middle class with impunity. <\/p>\n
My fellow Americans: I deliver this address at a time of great distress in our nation. Never before have we faced challenges of such severity as we d... <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
It is one year since the death of 26-year-old Aaron Swartz, the renowned computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist. People all around the world are remembering Swartz <\/p>\n
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