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In reply to the discussion: German TV: Snowden Says NSA Also Spies on Industry [View all]riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)He has sparked a global conversation about what lengths a country should go to in order to maintain that.
The US has engendered enormous hostility with its actions - overt and covert in pursuit of economic hegemony. The US's actions in Iraq and the Mid-East on behalf of Big Oil have been nothing short of disastrous for all of us for example. For as many millions of people around the world who marched and protested and demonstrated against it, the PTB ignored us all.
Snowden has somehow managed to grab the world's attention and shine the spotlight on our criminality for all the world to see. Its way past time to rein ourselves in. That would do more to help our national security than virtually anything else. He's gotten the MIC's attention and forced Obama to come out into the light and start that conversation.
Its nothing short of a fucking miracle. If we can wake up more Americans to what agencies like the NSA are REALLY doing, there may be hope for us yet.
Its too late in the ME imho to repair the damage. Its obviously WAY too late in Central and South American to repair the damage.