About This Lesson
The Henry A. Wallace National Security Forum Series features interviews with 11 experts including journalist Glenn Greenwald, activist and scholar Noam Chomsky, political scientist Andrew Bacevich, and Harvard professor Linda Bilmes about the critical questions of our day: What does real safety look like, and where did America go wrong? This series, moderated by Sonali Kolhatkar of Uprising Radio, is unique in its deep investigation of the origins, human costs, and apparatus of the modern security state. Our experts examine the security state from all angles, providing in-depth analyses, as well as new information and facts.
The CIA, NSA and the Pentagon rely on outside contractors to much of their work, but what if big corporations could use them as well to spy on activists opposed to their actions? Corporations aren’t bound by the constitution like government agencies and therefore aren’t required to honor the same rules when it comes to surveillance. How will free speech suffer if corporations can ally themselves with government spy agencies and private security firms to intimate and silence those who questions them?
