"A Silent Coup": Jeremy Scahill & Bob Herbert on Corporate, Military Interests Shaping Obama’s SOTU | Democracy Now!

"A Silent Coup": Jeremy Scahill & Bob Herbert on Corporate, Military Interests Shaping Obama’s SOTU | Democracy Now!

 "Does the average American benefit from the continuation of these wars?
No. Who benefits? That’s the most important question we all have to ask:
It’s corporations," explains national security reporter Jeremy Scahill.

"When corporations control our political process in this country
through a legalized form of corruption that’s called campaign finance,
what does that say about the state of our democracy? In a way, there
already has been a coup in this country, but it’s been a silent coup."