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 Steele: Reinventing the US Army Part II – Overview of Planning and Programming Factors for Expeditionary Operations

Steele, Robert. Reinventing the US Army Part II – Overview of Planning and Programming Factors for Expeditionary Operations, Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Press, Projected Publication 2017. Part II in the Reinventing the US Army monograph series. Robert David Steele DOC (37 Pages): EIN 7FV42 ERAP Steele Vol 2 Global Reality …

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 …

Review (Guest): White Trash – The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Nancy Isenberg The Hidden Aspects of Race and Class in American History, July 26, 2016 by Herbert Calhoun This book explains the unsavory fine points of our national identity by probing and then exposing the not so well hidden loose ends that tie the bottom half of America’s social hierarchy to the top half. It …