Chris Hedges habla de la NDAA, las ejecuciones extrajudiciales y el
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Look, the drone wars—this is—it’s not an example of—and I think this is true wit the NDAA,
I think it’s true with the FISA Amendment Act, I think—go all the way back.
What they’re attempting to do is legally justify what they’re already doing. They
have argued that under the 2001 Authorization to Use Military Force Act they have a right
to assassinate American citizens. I have read that act innumerable times, and Bruce and
Carl did, and none of us find that in the act. That is, to be generous, a radical interpretation
of the AUMF. And so, what they’re seeking to do is legally justify, in the same way
that Yoo was attempting to legally justify torture. They’re essentially looking for
kind of legal cover. And so, I think it’s all connected. It’s
all a part of this very rapid descent into a frightening form of corporate totalitarianism.
And that is just writ large across the landscape. And as we go down—and they know we’re
going down. Look, I mean, you know, they—these forces are cannibalistic. Forty percent of
the summer Arctic sea ice melts, and here we’re literally watching the death throes
of the planet, and these corporations, like Shell, look at it as a business opportunity.
They know only one word, and that’s "more." They have commodified everything. Human beings
are commodities, disposable commodities. The ecosystem is a disposable commodity. And they
will—now with no impediments, they will push and push and push. It makes Herman Melville’s
Moby Dick, which I’m just re-reading, the most prescient study of the American character,
because we’re all on the Pequod, and Ahab’s running the ship. And as Ahab said, "My means
and my methods are sane, and my object is mad." And they’re not going to stop themselves.
The formal mechanisms of power are not going to stop them. It’s up to us.