Click here to access article which contain excerpts from Greg Guma's 2011 book entitled Big Lies, and was posted on Global Research.
This provides a good followup for people shocked by the recent revelations of government spying on its own citizens. Of course, the rot in our society goes much further, and this author supplies some valuable additional information on the rot.
The excerpts provide a detailed description of what is essentially a contemporary fascist empire whose main ingredients are secrecy, close collaboration among secret government spy and clandestine operations agencies, both government and private militaries, and corporations. The latter not only consist of those who hugely benefit from no-bid military contracts, but media corporations that are needed to support this military-industrial complex by carefully managing what they report. The collaboration is so complete that often the same people circulate throughout the various departments of the complex. That is the essence of contemporary fascism: the complete integration of military and corporations in government. The only ingredient missing in the article are the financial elites who function at the core of this fascist regime.
What mainly distinguishes this 21st century fascism from its predecessor in the 20th century is its international character. It is the political counterpart to it economic brother--neoliberalism. Both are eliminating national boundaries that inhibit their pursuit of power and profits. This contemporary form is operated by international capitalists who have a global outlook and no commitments to any one nation including the US, if they cease to be supportive of their projects.
