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INTERVIEW: John Mearsheimer—Leading International Relations Scholar—On US Power & the Darkness Ahead for Ukraine | SYSTEM UPDATE #109

System Update with Glenn Greenwald

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The Stranglehold on the Narrative in the West

When I started writing about politics in 2005 it was largely reaction to what I considered the repressive climate that existed around the war and terror generally. Even though even then though as kind of closed off and homogenized that the debate was there was a fair amount of dissent about whether we should go into Iraq, which is not the case now. There's this tactic not necessarily even to attack so much it's just to ignore to exclude to marginalize to make sure that this perspective like yourself just doesn't get heard. It's really truly amazing the extent to which the discourse has been shut down it is really amazing let me just one last thing on Ukraine.

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