GORE VIDAL = LIES GOVERNMENT AND MSM TELL AMERICANS – THAT THEY BELIEVE = “HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATE ON AMERICA”

Interviews by Paul Jay of The Real News Network focus on period from the end of World War II, throughout the Cold War, and up to and into the age of post 9ll and the War on Terrorism. = A useful and sharp critique of American Imperialism and the military-industrial complex = Understanding USA actions in the 20th century.

Vidal = FDR rebuffed Winston Churchill at a formal dinner party for failing to understand that he was intent on dismantling all colonial empires (except USA’s Empire)

VIDAL = FDR became our very own Augustus Caesar

Vidal = Truman was first President to give in to (MIC) military industrial complex built and SOLD on FEAR on a GRAND SCALE of Communism and then Terrorism.

VIDAL = Truman’s decision to stay armed all the time after WWII

VIDAL = EISENHOWER Established Military Industrial Complex

VIDAL = GRAND FEAR = MIC gets $TRILLIONS and the people are subdued and FORCED TO FUND MULTINATIONAL $BILLIONAIRES FRAUD SCAMS AND MURDER! = NO Meaningful social and political change for AMERICAN PEOPLE.

Vidal = “Hollywood and Washington” = MEDIA VERSUS TRUTH

VIDAL = Hollywood media = State “Cheerleader” = MULTINATIONAL BILLIONAIRES own media and owns the levers of public opinion = “Infantilizing of the (PEOPLE) republic” = Detrimental to the republic = “triumphs of American Television”

ASSANGE =Journalist seeks refuge in an embassy for fear of imprisonment, torture and even death for publishing inconvenient truths about the state.

SNOWDEN = A USA contractor is forced to live in exile and can’t return to his home country for whistle blowing constitutional violations on his fellow citizens by the state security apparatus.

MANNING = A soldier is placed in solitary confinement for a prolonged period of time and tortured before being convicted of any crime, and latter sentenced to prison for an outrageous amount of time for exposing war crimes to the public.

USA MURDER OF AMERICAN = An American Muslim cleric moves overseas, opens a YouTube channel and uses it to give inflammatory religious oriented sermons against his country. He is later obliterated by drone.

VIDAL = AMERICAN = Wars with no end in sight.

VIDAL = An entire American citizenry is under surveillance -all in the name of national security.

VIDAL = “I was born eighty years ago in a country called the United States of America and now I live in a Homeland -an expression we haven’t heard since Hitler”

Vidal = Deconstructs the national security state from its genesis from WW II under FDR to Truman to Eisenhower to JFK to LBJ to ALMOST TODAY’S CIA AND NSA.

VIDAL = Provides understanding the machinery of the state manipulation for MULTINATIONAL BILLIONAIRE GAINS. = WEALTH TRANSFERRED TO THE VERY RICH!

Vidal = Helps us see beyond the “appearances” of the façade our leaders and powerful people work hard to create to keep us in the dark.

Vidal = Highlights How badly a truly newsworthy news network is needed.

Vidal = Reworks FDR’s quote “nothing to fear but fear itself” = `Mr. President, this is not the message that Westinghouse wants to put out, so don’t say we have nothing to fear but fear itself, because fear is what we peddle.’

Vidal = How MULTINATIONAL THINK TANKS evolve into CRIMINAL actions use PRECIOUS MIDDLE CLASS MONEY FOR EXPLOITATION.

Vidal = “Since we now have preemptive war the president can arbitrarily go over and take a look at–oh, I don’t know, at Albania, say, — `We don’t like your looks,’ he might say, ‘You could have some terrorists in those hills, so, sorry, we’re going to have to blow up your capital because there may be terrorists living there.’ The trick of the national security state is, first of all: There must always be an enemy, and he must be terrifying, and he wants to blow us up because he’s evil and we’re good.”

VIDAL = This (above) has become America’s favorite fairy tale we quite amazingly swallow over and over and over again = Americans are only ones on the planet who believe it.

VIDAL = `Everyday we are brainwashed’ by the MSM = THANK GOODNESS FOR THE REAL NEWS NETWORK!