John le Carré on World Events and the New Fanaticism

British Novelist John le Carré on the Iraq War, Corporate Power, the Exploitation of Africa and His New Novel, "Our Kind of Traitor"

le Carré formerly worked in the British Secret Services and today writes prolifically on the inequities of globalization, unchecked multinational corporate power, and the role national spy services play in protecting corporate interests

DEMOCRACYNOW Oct 11, 2010 | "I think it's true that we have caused irreparable damage in the Middle East. I think we shall pay for it for a long time. One of the problems surely is that the victims never forget…and the winners do, and they forget very quickly.

"If people knew, basically, for example what we had done in Iran when we ousted Mossadeq through the CIA and the Secret Service…and installed the Shah and trained his ghastly secret police force…"

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