Bill Moyer's Exclusive Web Interview of Glenn Greenwald

This particular interview did not run on PBS, it was a web exclusive.

Bill Moyer interviewed Glenn Greenwald, author of "How Would A Patriot Act," and "A Tragic Legacy".

This interview is broken into 3 parts. It is going to cover politics more than business/Economics, but the underlying theme here is a story about government controlled by Corporate Policy.

Greenwald also writes an award winning blog for Salon.com, and he is very well spoken and brutally honest about why America fights wars with countries which have no Air Force. Greenwalds also talks to Bill about the corruption of the Afghan government by the CIA and drug lords. Greenwald asserts that we are basically funding drug lords to raise arms money which are in turn used against our own soldiers and NATO troops.

Greenwald also scores points when talking about America's perpetual state of war, where we always find some country in whose affairs we must meddle. Greenwald asks, why are we overseas "nation building", erecting schools, paving highways, building infrastructure, when our own citizens are losing their jobs and having to do without?

This is an eye opening interview and should be used to frame the debate about Afghanistan, Iraq and all foreign policy.

All parts of this interview have nuggets of gold, from an Adam Smith quote I've never heard to Greenwald making a huge point about "empathy" for our enemies in understanding why our war mongering is manufacturing more terrorists and hatred for America.

By the way, lest you think Greenwald is a flaming knee-jerk Liberal, he is very critical of the Obama White House in Part 3 over issues such as the continuance of Bush/Cheney's use of torture, no habeus corpus jails in Afghanistan, corporate welfare for Big Banks, etc.

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Part 2





Part 3