The Military-Industrial Complex Is Killing Us All | TomDispatch
We need to talk about what bombs do in war. Bombs shred flesh. Bombs shatter bones. Bombs dismember. Bombs cause brains, lungs, and other organs to shake so violently they bleed, rupture, and cease functioning. Bombs injure. Bombs kill. Bombs destroy.
Bombs also make people rich.
When a bomb explodes, someone profits. And when someone profits, bombs claim more unseen victims. Every dollar spent on a bomb is a dollar not spent saving a life from a preventable death, a dollar not spent curing cancer, a dollar not spent educating children. That’s why, so long ago, retired five-star general and President Dwight D. Eisenhower rightly called spending on bombs and all things military a “theft.”
#US #MilitaryIndustrialComplex
We need to talk about what bombs do in war. Bombs shred flesh. Bombs shatter bones. Bombs dismember. Bombs cause brains, lungs, and other organs to shake so violently they bleed, rupture, and cease functioning. Bombs injure. Bombs kill. Bombs destroy.
Bombs also make people rich.
When a bomb explodes, someone profits. And when someone profits, bombs claim more unseen victims. Every dollar spent on a bomb is a dollar not spent saving a life from a preventable death, a dollar not spent curing cancer, a dollar not spent educating children. That’s why, so long ago, retired five-star general and President Dwight D. Eisenhower rightly called spending on bombs and all things military a “theft.”
#US #MilitaryIndustrialComplex
Fake Revolutions Everywhere You Look | Caitlin Johnstone –
There are fake revolutions everywhere you look. This happens all the time these days: people who are inextricably intertwined with establishment power structures posturing as brave revolutionaries leading a resistance against the very establishment they themselves are a part of. Elon Musk is no more a part of any “resistance” than Joe Biden or Bill Gates, but his sycophantic fanboys will mindlessly gobble this garbage up like popcorn chicken.
They serve up fake revolutions to stop you from waging a real one.
Here, fall in line with this billionaire #MilitaryIndustrialComplex plutocrat, he’s leading the resistance. Here, fall in line with this #oligarch-backed presidential candidate, he’s waging a populist war against the Deep State to Make America Great Again.
#DeepState #Plutocracy #US
There are fake revolutions everywhere you look. This happens all the time these days: people who are inextricably intertwined with establishment power structures posturing as brave revolutionaries leading a resistance against the very establishment they themselves are a part of. Elon Musk is no more a part of any “resistance” than Joe Biden or Bill Gates, but his sycophantic fanboys will mindlessly gobble this garbage up like popcorn chicken.
They serve up fake revolutions to stop you from waging a real one.
Here, fall in line with this billionaire #MilitaryIndustrialComplex plutocrat, he’s leading the resistance. Here, fall in line with this #oligarch-backed presidential candidate, he’s waging a populist war against the Deep State to Make America Great Again.
#DeepState #Plutocracy #US