Maher to Greenwald: Every Time Snowden Speaks, 'He Always Says Something F*cking Nuts'

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50. Call it brainwashing if you want

I call it just awareness of the reality of the situation. And Merkl's phone is still nothing to joke about.

And as far as world imperialism, it takes no Einstein to know that the US is and has been at the top of the heap, having begun with the whole "manifest destiny" entitlement concept to take huge swaths of this continent from Native Americans and much of the West from Mexico, and on to sending gunboats to Hawaii in the 1890s to help ex-pat American planters overthrow the Hawaiian monarch.

And I'm "quaintly" aware that we've been in wars, occupations or involved in coups continuously ever since for the natural resources of those invaded and occupied countries.

And btw, there is movement on releasing Jonathan Pollard, who spied against us for Israel in the 1980s, which just goes to my point. Even our allies spy on us, Germany included.