John Cusack Interviews Naomi Klein, Great Question at the End!

[leftchick]

here is his video interview...http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-cusack/huffpost-exclusive-my-in_b_65990.html


then this transcript after the film stops.....


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-cusack/calling-things-what-they-_b_66532.html

Calling Things What They Are: More From My Conversation with Naomi Klein

from the end.....

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Cusack: The question becomes one of intellectual honesty and basic morality. I wanted to talk about the players or the heirs of the Friedman legacy who are in the public sector today... The Grover Norquists and Bill Kristols of the world come to mind ...You also talk about the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, the American Enterprise Institute as pursuing the goal of the elimination of the public sphere and the total liberation of corporations.

Klein: I refer to the people in those think tanks as "the people who are paid to think by the makers of tanks" because a huge amount of the funding for these think tanks is coming directly from the weapons and homeland security industry. They are funded by some of the wealthiest families and the wealthiest corporations in this country so the question of intellectual honesty really has to come up. They exist in a strange intellectual gray zone where they get money in order to think. And besides, I'm not sure thinking really belongs in tanks.

Cusack: So you're saying that the Shultzes and the Perles and the Kissingers and the Jim Bakers of the world are embedded in the homeland security/privatized war economy?

Klein: More than embedded. I mean, they are it.

Cusack: I was trying to --



Klein: Why are you trying to be polite?

Cusack: I don't know. I don't know. That's part of the problem, too: being polite with this immorality and not having the courage to call something what it is...The refusal of the Congress to challenge Bush in a meaningful way is proof of the Democratic complicity in the new economy. To name only right wing people is to ignore the central thesis of intellectual honesty as the first step in a long corrective march... So we'll have to talk about what Democrats are in on this game and name them, too...we'll have to get into that later.


What Democrats indeed John? I can't wait for the next installment!

[Dhalgren]

1. Killer stuff! Just killer....K&R...

[Blue Belle]

2. I love John Cusack...

:)

[MuseRider]

3. Thanks.

Very interesting, I will have to read this book.

I too am very interested in the next installment but I would bet we could rattle off quite a few of those names but I don't want to start a flame war :).

[leftchick]

5. I only know one for sure

That would be DiFi and I haven't seen her defended much. I truly do not know the others and want them exposed!

[porphyrian]

4. Awesome. - n/t

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

6. I've always thought that Cusack would make a decent candidate.

[gateley]

7. K&R nt

[applegrove]

8. She so clear when she is interviewed. Great stuff.