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America's $1.4 Trillion "National Security" Budget.”
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“Imperial narrative control has five distinct elements.”
Caitlin A. Johnstone. Mronline.org (7-3-22).
All of our world’s worst problems are created by the powerful. The powerful will keep creating those problems until ordinary people use their superior numbers to make them stop. Ordinary people don’t use their superior numbers to stop the powerful because the powerful are continuously manipulating people’s understanding of what’s going on.
AND PRISON
When whistleblowers go to prison, we're on the road to tyranny
Daniel Hale is in a supermax prison for telling the truth about America's drone war. That prison awaits us all
By CHRIS HEDGES, AUGUST 2, 2022, WWW.SALON.COM
This article originally appeared at ScheerPost. Used by permission.
MARION, Illinois . . .he describes his journey from working for the National Security Agency and the Joint Special Operations Task Force at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan to becoming federal prisoner 26069-07.
Hale, a 34-year-old former Air Force signals intelligence analyst, is serving a 45-month prison sentence, following his conviction under the Espionage Act for disclosing classified documents about the U.S. military's drone assassination program and its high civilian death toll. The documents are believed to be the source material for "The Drone Papers" published by The Intercept, on Oct. 15, 2015. MORE