05August2013
By David Cromwell and David Edwards
Reports of Washington's anger directed at surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden indicate a basic truth about power. Noam Chomsky has expressed it as the underlying problem for genuine democracy, even in so-called 'free' societies:
'Remember, any state, any state, has a primary enemy: its own population.' (Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power , edited by Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel, The New Press, 2002, p. 7...
By David Cromwell
In an era of permanent war, economic meltdown and climate ‘ weirding ’, we need all the champions of truth and justice that we can find. But wher...