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The Military Complex

 

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"The supreme issue... is the encroachment of the powerful few upon the rights of the many"

   Wisconsin's "Fighting Bob" La Follette, 1912

 

 

"We live in an era of nuclear giants and ethical midgets."

   Omar N. Bradley (1893 - 1981), General of the Army, First Chairman of The Joint Chiefs of Staff.

 

 

"War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military"

   Georges Clemenceau, former French prime minister and the French war minister who negotiated the Versailles Treaty to end World War I.

 

 

“We must not destroy from within what we are trying to defend from without” 
 
   Eisenhower

 

 

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death"

   Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For a Better Informed & Involved Public...

 

 

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Activist & Concerned Citizen

 

 

"The restoration of our world-view can come only as a result of inexorable truth-loving and reckless courage in thought"

 

   ◊  Albert Schweitzer

 

 

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George Orwell's Guide to the News

 

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Big Lies Launch Wars. "All Wars Are Based on Deception"

 

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America's Deadly Dynamics with Iran

 

The Elite Plan for a New World Social Order

 

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Obama's Arc of Instability: Destabilizing the World One Region at a Time

 

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Noam Chomsky on How the Military is Bankrupting Us and Why Corporate Interests Want to Destroy Public Programs

 

You Only Believe the Official 9/11 Story Because You Don't Know the Official 9/11 Story

 

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How Private Firms Have Cashed In on the Climate of Fear Since 9/11

 

US: Pentagon Under Fire Over War Contracts

 

Debt Ceiling: A Missed Opportunity to Really Control Military Spending

 

Our Commando War in 120 Countries: Uncovering the Military's Secret Operations in the Obama Era

 

Dennis Kucinich: "War Takes Money From  the American People & Gives It to War Profiteers"

 

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$4.4 Trillion, 225,000 Dead: Forget the Spin, This Is What War Really Costs

 

Flailing Empire: Afghanistan and the Great American Unraveling

 

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What's Victory?  The Nine Orwellian Propaganda Terms That Define Our War State

 

US: How Our Government Has Merged with Corporations

 

Eisenhower's Worst Fears Came True. We Invent Enemy's to Buy the Bombs

 

The Militarization of America: How the Military Mindset Is Permeating Our Political Culture and Society

 

War Is Not About Truth, Justice and the American Way

 

God Bless America. And It's Bombs

 

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Torture: Anti-Military, Unamerican and It Doesn't Work

 

What Will It Take to End Our Pointless, Destructive Wars?

 

Careerism and Psychopathy in the US Military

 

Chomsky: Is the World Too Big to Fail? The Contours of Global Order

 

Imperial Decline: How Does It Feel to Be Inside a Dying Empire

 

Oliver Stone: Don't Betray Us Barack --  End the Empire

 

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Today's Military Industrial Complex

 

Heartbreaking Stories: It's Time to Listen to the Powerful Voiced of Our Soldiers

 

How Did Super Bloated Defense Spending Become Such a Sacred Cow That We Can't Have a Debate About Cutting It?

 

Empire: The Pentagon Can Barely Keep Track of Its Thousands of Bases

 

Vision: Why the Fall of the American Empire Can Be a Good (and Peaceful) Thing

 

Chomsky: Why the Middle East Turmoil Is a Direct Threat to the American Empire

 

John Pilger: Why Are Wars Not Being Reported Honestly?

 

Veterans for Peace Protest War Outside White House (Video)

 

A World Upside Down? Deficit Fantasies in the Great Recession (Video)

 

WikiLeaks and War Is a Lie - David Swanson (Video)

 

Stealing Success Tel Aviv Style

 

How the Pentagon Turns Working Class Men Into the Deadliest Killers on the Planet

 

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Israel Was Right

 

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War Is a Lie (Video)

 

6 Reasons to Start World War III If You Are A Globalist

 

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Chalmers Johnson on the Military-Industrial Complex (Videos)

 

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The Evidence is Overwhelming: We Aren't Getting Out of Afghanistan or Even Iraq

 

Trimming a Bloated Defense Budget

 

US to Increase Weapons Stockpile in Israel

 

Empire - The New Arms Race

 

Why It's So Hard to Slash the Bloated Pentagon Budgets

 

Israel Wages War on Your Mind

 

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The Macro-Economics of Phony Terror and Contrived Conflict

 

American Psychosis

 

American Fascism and Musical Chairs

 

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Hearts and Minds

 

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America Won the Cold War But Now is Turning into the USSR

 

Obama's Covert Wars

 

It's the Beginning of the End for the American Empire

 

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How the Military Destroys the Lives of Soldiers Who Try to Tell the Truth

 

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Disaster Capitalism Comes to Capital Hill

 

The Sanctity of Military Spending

 

A Sign of Empire Pathology

 

How the Military Hides Dissent in the Ranks

 

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DARPA: Inventing This Side of the Impossible

 

The Day Has Finally Arrived: The Plunder of Iraq's Oil

 

Scahill: Obama May Be Afraid of Blackwater

 

A Morally Bankrupt Military: When Soldiers and Their Families Become Expendable

 

How Top Generals May Trap Obama in a Losing War

 

The Israeli Occupation of America: How Israel Gained Control of American Foreign Policy and Public Opinion

 

10 Ways the U.S. Military Has Shoved Christianity Down Muslims' Throats

 

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Spending $102 Billion a Year on 800 Worldwide Military Basis is Bankrupting the Country

 

Canadians Take Notice, the U.S. is Militarizing the Border

 

America Is Completely Broke, and Here We Are Funding  Fantasy Wars at the  Pentagon

 

The Bush Era Has Been an Eight-Year-Long Madoff Style Ripoff

 

Pentagon Tries to Lock Obama Into an Outrageously Bloated Budget

 

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Why the U.S. Military Is In Shambles

 

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Chomsky: "If the U.S. Carries Out Terrorism, It Did Not Happen"

 

Bush Administration Wastes Trillions in Worthless Weapons

 

 

 

 

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