Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Peddlers of Crisis
Secret government in the US, of course, isn't anything new; unaccountable agencies have been running amok destabilizing the world since Truman signed them into law in 1948. Jerry Sanders' 1983 classic Peddlers of Crisis is a good place to begin understanding how our democracy unraveled. Perhaps motivated by budget scams, the scale of these operations undermining self-governance now threatens to become totalitarian, if we let it.
