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The Disinformation Fraud: How America's Most Powerful Institutions Joined Forces to Crush Speech & Silence Dissent, with Jacob Siegel

System Update with Glenn Greenwald

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The Unlearning of Lessons From the Bureaucracy

I don't think that societies learn lessons that individuals learn lessons so I am sort of I've given up on this on this hope that there are collective lessons to be learned in that way. There are only carefully guarded institutions that are transparent enough and locally controlled enough that people can actually have influence and impact over them, he says. He asks why did the defense establishment or Wall Street respond to Trump as a threat? "They saw him as a threat a genuine threat" they say.

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