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How Wall Street gave birth to the CIA and US national security state (with historian Aaron Good)

Geopolitical Economy Report

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Covert Operations - It's Creating Layers of Secrecy and Obfuscation

The U.S. has used covert operations as a means to implement policy, writes Julian Zelizer. He says it is profoundly anti democratic and established very early on in the Cold War. "They become the mannequin devil that justifies whatever the US empire wants to do," he adds.

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