TomDispatch returns in 2015 with a sweeping piece of mine on how the national security state became a self-perpetuating machine whose “success” is based on endless failure. For my journey through our world of supposed “security” and actual insecurity, I bring an American from January 1963 -- the moment just after the Cuban Missile Crisis in which so many Americans (my 18-year-old self included) thought we were toast -- into 2015. I then try to explain what our American world looks like in an almost unimaginably bizarre future 52 years hence. I start with Cuban policy and make my way through our various wars, alarms, terrors, and hysterias to climate change (a phenomenon that should represent the most dire threat of insecurity around, but for which, to the tune of trillions of dollars, the national security state was distinctly not built). I hope you’ll venture on this mind-boggling odyssey with that American of 1963 and me! Tom From TomDispatch this morning: How our national security state will ensure that 2015 is another year of increasing insecurity for this country and the world -- Tom Engelhardt, “A Self-Perpetuating Machine for American Insecurity, Welcome to the National Security State of 2015” tomdispatch/blog/175939/
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 15:15:01 +0000
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