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- Season 5 Syria and the US: The complicity of silence
- Season 5 Iraq to Mali: The changing calculus of war
- Season 5 Diplomacy, Obama and the Middle East
- Season 5 Fuelling geopolitics: The oil saga
- Season 5 The Vatican: A Wholly Roman Empire?
- Season 5 The Debate: Empire of Secrets
- Season 5 Turning a page: Latin America and the US
- Season 5 The Debate - The Peace Process: Never and Forever
- Season 5 The US beyond Syria: A reluctant empire?
- Season 5 The Debate - A German Europe? The Union disunited
- Season 5 The US: A tale of three states
- Season 5 Iran and the US: Diplomatic enrichment
Empire - Season 5 Episode 6 The Debate: Empire of Secrets
0.00 48 minutes As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama promised transparency and open government yet his administration is one of the most closed governments in US history, described as being worse than even the Nixon administration.The technology and information revolution allows the government to cast its net wider than ever before; collecting data, watching, spying and analysing. As revelations of systemic snooping continue to hit the headlines, Empire asks: who is watching the watchers? Joining us as we unpack some of the known unknowns are Oscar-winning film director Oliver Stone, and war reporters Jeremy Scahill and Richard Rowley. We unravel the psychology of secrets with psychiatrist Justin Frank, the author of Obama on the Couch and Bush on the Couch. We look at the impact of state secrets brought to light with Dana Priest, a leading Washington Post investigative reporter on national security and author of two books, including her most recent Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State. We are also joined by Michael Ratner, president emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights and an attorney representing Julian Assange and Wikileaks; as well as Evgeny Morozov, an expert on internet and privacy issues, and author of two books: The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom and his most recent: To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism.
