This essay is an excerpt from Big Lies: How Our Corporate Overlords, Politicians and Media Establishment Warp Reality and Undermine Democracy. Greg Guma’s latest book, Dons of Time, is a sci-fi look at the control of history as power. Despite 24-hour news and talk about transparency, there’s a lot we don’t know about our past, … Continue reading “Secrets R US”: America’s Spying Apparatus, Echelon, the NSA’s Eaves Dropping Program and the Outsourcing of Intelligence Operations