April 16, 2013

Glenn Greenwald and the Leveretts Talk Iran—and How Two Former Spear-Carriers for Empire Got “Radicalized”

Glenn Greenwald and the Leveretts Talk Iran—and How Two Former Spear-Carriers for Empire Got “Radicalized”
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett 
GoingToTehran.com
Published on April 10, 2013
Glenn Greenwald interviewed us for a “Podcast Discussion with Two of America’s Leading Iran Experts:  The Leveretts,” now published by the Guardian (click on the podcast screen above or here).  We admire Glenn deeply for all he has done and continues to do to bring reality and principle back into America’s ongoing debates about national security and about civil liberties—and to explain, tirelessly, how those two debates are inextricably linked.  If our children inherit a republic still even marginally worthy of the name, it will be, in no small part, because enough people were motivated by Glenn to demand that American elites stop eviscerating our country’s international position through a counter-productive quest for imperial dominance, and stop shredding the Constitution in pursuit of an illusory notion of “security.”

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