gar alperovitz now joins us from washington dc. dr.was about how you became the conduit to the newspapers and why you wanted to play this role? gar: i had been working in the government, i had worked in the senate and i saw the gulf of tonkin resolution come in, which was a fraudulent resolution authorizing powerful action by .he government i had also read about the bombing of hiroshima and how insiders made decisions against the public interest and lied to the public. i met dan by accident. he invited me to dinner and we hit it off. one thing led to another and the next day or two, i was presented with the fact that these papers were available and we could make them public. the question was should we do that and could i help? i decided obviously it was an important thing to do. the goal of tonkin resolution, which had authorized this massive war, very much what happened like any rack, was -- iraq, was a phony resolution based on distorted facts. millions of people were going to die and it was important to try to do what one could do t

gar alperovitz: a place to begin.hy in the world does anyone wonder about, is there an america beyond capitalism? the person who created davos, the gathering of the most powerful corporate capitalist structures in the entire world, this year opened the conference saying, "he thought capitalism may well be over." same message as occupy.