Erstellt am: 27. 1. 2014 - 12:49 Uhr
Today's Webtip: Dr. Strangelove
One of the great joys of the Snowden leaks has been watching various members of the U.S. government and the NSA twist and turn as they tried to practice a little damage control. Following the whole thing has left me with a reinforced perception that concepts like "truth" are a rather fluid thing for many of the individuals and institutions involved.
That's not really anything new though. Critics of the U.S. military industrial complex have frequently been portrayed as a mix of conspiracy nuts, communist sympathizers or outright peddlers of propaganda. That was the case with Dr. Strangelove, a film that showed a mad general ordering a nuclear attack without consulting the President or following the chain of command. Something critics of the film and members of the U.S. government claimed was impossible.