With all eyes on the nuclear standoff with North Korea, what is the over-arching agenda in play behind the politics of crisis? Tyrel Ventura sits down with documentary filmmaker and journalist John Pilger to learn more about the unfolding behind-the-scenes power play, and to discuss his latest documentary, “The Coming War on China.”

Images above and below from We Don’t Need to Increase Military Spending by $54 Billion by Benjamin Studebaker

Comparing the Budget Control Act baseline budget to the most current figures SIPRI has for China and Russia:
global-2018-bcaComparing the Budget Control Act baseline budget to the most current figures SIPRI has for China and Russia:

 
Even under the baseline budget, the US already spends 2/3rds of this total. How much stronger does Trump’s plan make us? Let’s put his figures in

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Look at Donald Trump, increasing that US share by a historic 2 points. I feel so much safer already–don’t you?

Video:  Watching the Hawks RT  Published on September 18, 2017

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