When children waste away to literally nothing while fourteen million people face conflict driven famine, a hue and cry—yes, a caterwaul —most certainly should be raised, worldwide.
Expressed differently, the United States has not won a major conflict since 1945; has a trillion-dollar national security budget; has had 17 military commanders in the last 17 years in Afghanistan, a country plagued by 23,744 “security incidents” (the most ever recorded) in 2017 alone; has spent around $3 trillion, primarily on that war and the rest of the war on terror...
An exhibit of war and peace posters at the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota.
The history of greed in our time has yet to be written, but what a story it will someday make.
Donald Trump would have been inconceivable as president without those disastrous wars, those trillions squandered on them and on the military that’s fought them, and that certainly qualifies as “impact” enough.
Donald Trump would have been inconceivable as president without those disastrous wars, those trillions squandered on them and on the military that’s fought them, and that certainly qualifies as “impact” enough.
Lee Camp speaks with Abby Martin, a cutting-edge investigative journalist and host of Empire Files who calls out the US war machine. Lee then discusses how the systems that rely on our ignorance are now trying to come up with ways to keep us dumb. https://youtu.be/S_Bjmzs2d-c ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ More
Reuters reveals that the new initiative will provide guidelines that could allow more countries to be granted faster deal approvals, and will call on Cabinet officials to help close deals between foreign governments and U.S. defense contractors. https://youtu.be/1F_HG4jrWac Democracy Now! Published on Apr 18, 2018 https://democracynow.org - A new exposé by Reuters reveals how More
Reuters reveals that the new initiative will provide guidelines that could allow more countries to be granted faster deal approvals, and will call on Cabinet officials to help close deals between foreign governments and U.S. defense contractors. https://youtu.be/1F_HG4jrWac Democracy Now! Published on Apr 18, 2018 https://democracynow.org - A new exposé by Reuters reveals how More
Chomsky: Page after page of the book contains graphic examples of --you can only call it--this kind of insanity and at one point describes the book as a chronicle of human madness, which captures the character of the era we have been living in very accurately. And we should bear in mind that this is only one of two existential threats, the other...is another dramatic illustration of human madness, the threat of global warming...
As we wrote yesterday... World War III had been called off.
This year at least 47% of federal income taxes goes to the military!
