Ben Norton @ Salon: Col Lawrence Wilkerson, USA (Ret) Condemns US Military-Industrial Complex

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ā€œWe are the death merchant of the worldā€: Ex-Bush official Lawrence Wilkerson condemns military-industrial complex

The military-industrial complex “is much more pernicious than Eisenhower ever thought,” says the retired US colonel

ā€œWas Bill Clinton’s expansion of NATO — after George H. W. Bush and [his Secretary of State] James Baker had assured Gorbachev and then Yeltsin that we wouldn’t go an inch further east — was this for Lockheed Martin, and Raytheon, and Boeing, and others, to increase their network of potential weapon sales?ā€ Wilkerson asked.

ā€œYou bet it was,ā€ he answered.

Tip of the Hat to Contributing Editor Berto Jongman.

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Paul Craig Roberts: Can Americans Overthrow The Evil That Rules Them? Evaluating the Combination of Hillary Clinton & Paul Wolfowitz

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Can Americans Overthrow The Evil That Rules Them?

Paul Wolfowitz and the lies that he told in the high government positions that he held are responsible for a massive number of deaths and massive destruction in seven countries. Wolfowitz has announced his vote for Hillary Clinton. Does this make you feel reassured?

Robert Parry: Jonathan Marshall on US Arms Makers Inciting a New Cold War

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US Arms Makers Invest in a New Cold War

Behind the U.S. media-political clamor for a new Cold War with Russia is a massive investment by the Military-Industrial Complex in ā€œthink tanksā€ and other propaganda outlets, writes Jonathan Marshall.

Think tanks like the Lexington Institute are prime movers behind the domestic propaganda campaign to revive the Cold War against the diminished Russian state and justify weapons programs like the F-35.

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