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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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The Limits of Liberal Democracy

Wall Street money working with the State Department to create this plan for a global US empire, says Aaron David Miller. But at the same time that the US government does have what is probably the most progressive government in its history under FDR. How was this contradiction kind of reconciled or was it reconciled? "It really shows that you cannot have a democratic society without oligarchic forces," writes Miller.

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