What issues need some whistle-blowing in today’s world?
The president has essentially become a monarch. He can declare war, torture people and act without any restraints. Since 9/11, we’ve been convinced that that’s the sort of government we need. But if you look at his competency in, for example, this war and responding to Katrina, he’s the last person we should trust with executive power. Congress as a whole has not challenged him, and I think he needs to be challenged. What are the dangers of the nuclear era? Extinction. The nuclear winter that could result from a nuclear war would kill not only humans, but most advanced forms of life. Hillary Clinton recently said that in the event of a nuclear attack, the U.S. would be able to totally obliterate Iran. But it’s innocent civilians who would be obliterated—women and children. The state of mind that the nuclear era engenders and encourages is a normalization of threats and preparation to carry out programs of extermination. This very state of mind is a great danger and is depraved—that ext
