At the Left Forum, I did not get a chance to meet any of you except for Doug Henwood and Patrick Bond - both of whom (as expected) had to quickly run off to another engagement - and Lou Proyect, with whom I had a delightful talk. I was fortunate in hooking up with a few others, but regret not meeting more of you.
James Bamford has written about the much larger NSA spy operation. What gave the new revelations power was that it named a corporate name. But we knew about that from the earlier news about the splitter in AT&T's San Francisco office. It must be hard for poor Obama. Where should we fight next? Syria is complicated. Iran is relatively big - unless we can just bomb without landing any troops. Palau would be easy, but we have not done the hard work of manufacturing evil there. He does support freedom of the press - as long as it is the freedom to exercise self-censorship. Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University michael dot perelman at gmail.com Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901 www.michaelperelman.wordpress.com
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