Ben Norton @ Salon: Col Lawrence Wilkerson, USA (Ret) Condemns US Military-Industrial Complex
“We are the death merchant of the world”: 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 “Was Bill Clinton’s expansion of NATO — after George H. W. Bush and [his Secretary of State] James Baker had assured Gorbachev and then …
Robert Parry: Jonathan Marshall on US Arms Makers Inciting a New Cold War
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 “think tanks” and other propaganda outlets, writes Jonathan Marshall. Think tanks like the Lexington Institute are prime movers behind the domestic propaganda campaign to revive …
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Yoda: Lockheed Martin F-35 – The Poster Child for Military-Industrial-Congressional Corruption, Idiocy, & Yes, Treason…
$14 billion for each jet, only 100 so far all vulnerable to easy shoot down, no extra charge for poisoning pilot with badly executed stealth toxins? Think, we should. Pentagon Weapons Tester Shoots Down Lockheed’s F-35 The $400bn F-35 is ‘not on a path to success’: Damning test report warns fighter jet is ‘running out …
Robert Steele: Libertarians Now or Never?
SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/2016-LP-ER Had God planned for a trillion years, he (or she, give me a break) could not have created a more opportune moment for the Libertarian Party, a moment that is going up in smoke as the Libertarian candidates for President and Vice President fail to seize the day. Below is my friend …
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Robert Steele: Grand Strategy – No Candidate Is Serious
Grand Strategy: No Candidate Is Serious… To keep America safe we need to have a government (including military and police) that works as it should as well as a society that works for all; and to stop destabilizing the world while putting America – the 99% disenfranchised economically, politically, and socially – first. Getting there …
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Robert Steele: Government Policy Primer
None of the candidates have a coherent national policy matrix in part because they don’t want one — their staffs are not designed to actually create coherent national policy that addresses all threats and needs in the context of a grand strategy on one side and a balanced budget on the other. What we have …
