If War Comes, Don’t Blame the ‘Military-Industrial Complex’ – Things Are Even Worse Than
You Think
James George JATRAS - 12.08.2017
"...In the past quarter century what began as Eisenhower’s MIC has become a multifaceted, hybrid
entity encompassing an astonishing range and depth in both the public and private sectors. To a large extent, the
contours of what former Congressional staffer Mike Lofgren has called the "Deep State" (which largely through
Lofgren’s efforts has since become a household word) are those of the incestuous "expert" community that dominates
mainstream media thinking but extend beyond it to include elements of all three branches of the US government,
private business (especially the financial industry, government contractors, information technology), think tanks,
NGOs (many of which are anything but "nongovernmental" but are funded by US official agencies and those of our
"allies", satellites, and clients), higher education (especially the recipients of massive research grants from the
Department of Defense), and the two political parties and their campaign operatives, plus the multitude of
lobbyists, campaign consultants, pollsters, spin doctors, media wizards, lawyers, and other functionaries.
Comparing the MIC of 1961 to its descendant, the Deep State of today, is like comparing a horse and
buggy to a Formula One racecar. The Deep State’s principals enjoy power and privileges that would have brought a
blush to the cheeks of members of the old Soviet nomenklatura, of which it is reminiscent."
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"...True, the United States does enjoy the “benefit” of appearing supremely powerful,
but this is only a cruel joke. When the Network is satisfied that all major obstacles to its unelected rule have
been removed, it will be a simple matter to destroy the US dollar, “justifiably” cut off the flow of money and
credit to the United States, and create the political incentive (necessity) for the United States to fully enter
the new global system..."
-- Joe Plummer, Tragedy & Hope 101 Chapter 3 The Network “Recovers”
America--
Trump Boasts of Killer Arms Sales in Meeting with Saudi Dictator, Using Cartoonish
Charts
"...What Trump did not
acknowledge is that these billions of dollars of U.S. weapons are being used to massacre Yemeni civilians. In fact
his meeting with the Saudi crown prince came in the same week marking the third anniversary of the Saudi war on
Yemen.
Saudi Arabia has used this U.S. military equipment to relentlessly
bomb civilian areas in Yemen, including hospitals, schools, residential houses, refugee camps, and even funerals.
The U.S.-backed Saudi coalition has killed many thousands of Yemeni civilians, pushed millions to the brink of
famine, unleashed an unprecedented cholera outbreak, and created what the United Nations says is the largest
humanitarian catastrophe on Earth.
Trump expressed no concern whatsoever over the millions of lives
being crushed in Yemen. Nor did he even mention the egregious human rights abuses committed by Saudi Arabia and its
de facto leader Mohammed bin Salman, who has been purging his political rivals, imprisoning human rights activists,
and crushing all dissent.
Instead, Trump made it clear that his political strategy is to sell
weapons and rely on $400 billion of Saudi investment in key states that can help him win
re-election." - BEN NORTON.
TheRealNews
Published on Mar 20, 2018
Trump kicked off his White House meeting with his authoritarian "good friend" Saudi Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Salman by pulling out charts listing the weapons the U.S. is selling to Saudi Arabia - Ben Norton
reports.
WHO: 24.4 Million in Yemen Need Humanitarian Assistance, Jan 18,
2019
"This support to the Saudi-UAE effort to wage this war in Yemen,
though, is not legitimate. It's illegal. It was started by the Obama administration and continued and
emphasized by the Trump administration. It's illegal. It's brutal."
-- Col. Larry Wilkerson --
Most of Congress "Likes War" and Opposes Ending US Support for Saudi War in Yemen.
TheRealNews, Published on Nov 6, 2017
“A lot of people at least the corporate media,
the western media, the establishment media - whatever you want to call it - tend to tell us that this is a proxy
war between Saudi Arabia and Iran...Is that true?” [Rick Sanchez]
It’s not to the extent that they talk about it at all. MSNBC ignored
this conflict for two years as Fair showed. But, now that they are talking about it; what they need to point out is
that the Houthis have been winning for two reasons: One is that they actually recommandeered billions of dollars of
weapons the US supplied the deposed and dead dictator Saleh. And worked along side the Yemeni army which was
formerly supplied by the US not Iran. Iran is supplying some political and media support but not the weapons that
our government and the Saudis claim. So the
idea of a proxy war is false. The Houthis are an endogenous
nationalistic resistance force that is fighting against a puppet government that poses an existential threat to
them!” [Max Blumenthal]
--Rick Sanchez & Max Blumenthal--
The ABC’s of the War in Yemen with Max Blumenthal. RT, Nov1, 2018
"The UN embargo/blockade against Yemen and the
Yemenis violates Genocide Convention article II (e): Deliberately inflicting on the group, conditions of life
calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part." --Prof. Francis A
Boyle-- YEMEN: A Genocidal War Against Children and
Civilians Sanctioned by the UN, US, UK & NATO
"Boyle explained that the Saudis and their allies in the Gulf Arab
Emirates wanted to establish full control over the entire Arabian peninsula and also of the choke point region at
the head of the Persian, or Arabian Gulf through which all oil exports, including those of Iran and Iraq were
shipped by sea. 'They want to control the entire Saudi Peninsula, all its
resources, and the Bab Al-Mandeb Strait through which all the oil and gas to Europe must
pass,' he said."
-- Vanessa Beeley, Journalist -- YEMEN: “Saudis, Emiratis and USA are Inflicting a War of Genocide Against the Houthis"
- Prof. Francis Boyle
Whitney Webb Interview The Ignored Yemen Genocide: "18.4 Million People Are Starving To Death" The Last American Vagabond Published on Nov 1, 2018
"Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed
and establishes a town by injustice!"
USArms Dealers
Getting Rich On Yemen's Misery
RonPaulLibertyReport
Streamed live on Jun 26, 2019
As the Saudi genocide of Yemen continues, everything's coming up roses for the US arms dealers
who are supplying the Saudi killing machine. Billions in arms sales are made yearly and foreign agents lobbying for
the Saudis and the United Arab Emirates are making millions. Meanwhile, millions of Yemeni civilians face
starvation, disease, and death in the four year Saudi war of aggression on them.
Arms Dealers and Lobbyists Get Rich as Yemen
Burns See the Top 4 U.S. contractors' profits explode, all while
their weapons have been used against civilian targets for years.
Chronic human rights violator Saudi Arabia is using American-made weapons against civilians in the fifth-poorest
nation in the world, Yemen. And make no mistake: U.S. defense contractors and their lobbyists and supporters in
government are getting rich in the process.
“Our role is not to make policy, our role is to comply with it,” John Harris, CEO of defense contractor Raytheon
International, said to
CNBC in February. But his statement vastly understates the role that defense contractors and lobbyists play in
Washington’s halls of power, where their influence on policy directly impacts their bottom lines.
Since 2015, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have waged war against Yemen, killing and injuring
thousands of Yemeni civilians. An estimated 90,000 people have been killed, according to
one international tracker. By December 2017, the number of cholera cases in Yemen had surged past one million, the largest such outbreak in
modern history. An estimated 113,000
children have died since April 2018 from war-related starvation and disease. The United Nations calls the
situation in Yemen the largest humanitarian crisis on earth, as over 14 million face
starvation.
The majority of the 6,872 Yemeni civilians killed and 10,768 wounded have been victims of Saudi-led coalition
airstrikes, according to the Office of
the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Nearly 90 coalition
airstrikes have hit homes, schools, markets,
hospitals, and mosques since 2015, according to Human Rights Watch. In 2018, the coalition bombed a wedding,
killing 22 people, including eight children. Another strike hit a bus, killing at least 26
children.
American-origin munitions produced by companies like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, and Raytheon
were identified at the site of over two dozen attacks throughout Yemen. Indeed, the United States is the single
largest arms supplier to the Middle East and has been for decades, according to a report by the Congressional Research
Service.
From 2014 to 2018, the United States supplied 68 percent of Saudi Arabia’s arms imports, 64 percent of the UAE’s
imports, and 65 percent of Qatar’s imports. Some of this weaponry was subsequently stolen or sold to al-Qaeda linked groups in the Arabian Peninsula,
where they could be used against the U.S. military, according to reports.
The Saudi use of U.S.-made jets,
bombs, and missiles against Yemeni civilian centers constitutes a war crime. It was an American
laser-guided MK-82 bomb that
killed the children on the bus; Raytheon’s technology killed the 22 people attending the wedding in 2018 as well as
a family traveling in their car; and another American-made MK-82 bomb ended the lives of at
least 80 men, women, and children in a Yemeni marketplace in March 2016.
Yet American defense contractors continue to spend millions of dollars to lobby Washington to maintain the flow
of arms to these countries.
“Companies like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, and other defense contractors see countries like Saudi Arabia
and the UAE as huge potential markets,” Stephen Miles, director of Win Without
War, told TAC. “They see them as massive opportunities to make a lot of money; that’s why they’re
investing billions and billions of dollars. This is a huge revenue stream to these companies.”
Boeing, Raytheon, and General Dynamics have all highlighted business with Saudi Arabia in their shareholder
reports.
“Operations and maintenance have become a very profitable niche market for U.S. corporations,” said Richard
Aboulafia, a vice president at Teal Group. He added that defense contractors can make as much as 150 percent more
profit off of operations and maintenance than from the original arms sale. U.S. weapons supply 57 percent of the military aircraft used by the Royal
Saudi Air Force, and mechanics and technicians hired by American companies repair and maintain their fighter jets
and helicopters.
In 2018 alone, the United States made $4.5 billion worth of arms deals to Saudi Arabia and $1.2
billion to the United Arab
Emirates, a report by William Hartung and Christina Arabia found.
From the report:
“Lockheed Martin…was involved in deals worth $25 billion; Boeing, $7.1 billion in deals; Raytheon, $5.5 billion in
deals; Northrop Grumman had one deal worth $2.5 billion; and BAE systems…had a $1.3 billion deal.”
“Because of the nature of U.S. arms control law, most of these sales have to get government approval, and we’ve
absolutely seen lobbyists weighing in heavily on this,” Miles said. “The last time I saw the numbers, the arms
industry had nearly 1,000 registered lobbyists. They’re not on the Hill lobbying Congress about how many schools we
should open next year. They’re lobbying for defense contractors. The past 18 years of endless wars have been
incredibly lucrative for the arms industry, and they have a vested industry in seeing these wars continue, and not
curtailing the cash cow that…has been for them.”
According to a new report…firms registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act have reported receiving
more than $40 million from Saudi Arabia in 2017 and 2018. Saudi lobbyists and public relations professionals
have contacted Congress, the executive branch, media outlets and think tanks more than 4,000 times. Much of
this work has been focused on ensuring that sales of U.S. arms to Saudi Arabia continue unabated and blocking
congressional actions that would end U.S. support for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen. …
Lobbyists, lawyers and public relations firms working for the Saudis have also reported doling out more than
$4.5 million in campaign contributions in the past two years, including at least $6,000 to Trump. In many
cases, these contributions have gone to members of Congress they’ve contacted regarding the Yemen war. In fact,
some contributions have gone to members of Congress on the exact same day they were contacted by Saudi
lobbyists, and some were made to key members just before, and even on the day of, important Yemen votes.
Over a dozen lobbying firms employed by defense contractors have also been working on behalf of the Saudi or
Emiratis, efficiently lobbying for both the arms buyers and sellers in one fell swoop. One of these
lobbying firms, the McKeon Group, led by former Republican congressman and chairman of the House Armed Services
Committee Howard McKeon, represents both Saudi Arabia and the American defense contractors Lockheed Martin,
Northrop Grumman, Orbital ATK, MBDA, and L3 Technologies. Lockheed Martin and Northrup Grumman are the biggest
suppliers of arms to Saudi Arabia. In 2018, the McKeon Group took $1,697,000 from 10 defense contractors
“to, among other
objectives, continue the flow of arms to Saudi Arabia,” reports National Memo.
Freeman
details multiple examples where lobbyists working on behalf of the Saudis met with a senator’s staff and
then made a substantial contribution to that senator’s campaign within days of a key vote to keep the United States
in the Yemen war.
American Defense International (ADI) represents the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia’s coalition partner in
the war against Yemen, as well as several American defense contractors,
including General Dynamics, Northrup Grumman, Raytheon, L3 Technologies, and General Atomics.
Not to be outdone by the McKeon Group, ADI’s lobbyists have also aggressively pursued possible swing votes in
the U.S. Senate for the hefty sum of $45,000 a month, paid for by the UAE. ADI lobbyists discussed the
“situation in Yemen” and the “Paveway sale to the UAE,” the same bomb used in the deadly wedding strike, with the
office of Senator Martin Heinrich, a member of the Armed Services Committee, according to FARA reports. ADI’s lobbyists also
met with Congressman
Steve Scalise’s legislative director to advise his office to vote against the congressional resolution on Yemen.
For their lobbying, Raytheon paid ADI $120,000 in 2018.
In addition to the overt influence exercised by lobbyists for the defense industry, many former arms industry
executives are embedded in influential posts throughout the Trump administration: from former Airbus, Huntington
Ingalls, and Raytheon lobbyist Charles Faulkner at the State Department, who pushed Mike Pompeo to support arms sales in
the Yemen war; to former Boeing executive and erstwhile head of the Department of Defense Patrick Shanahan; to
his interim replacement Mark Esper, secretary of the Army and another former lobbyist for Raytheon.
The war in Yemen has been good for American defense contractors’ bottom lines. Since the conflict began, General
Dynamics’ stock price has risen from about $135 to $169 per share, Raytheon’s from about $108 to more than $180,
and Boeing’s from about $150 to $360, according to In These
Times. Their analysis found that those four companies have had at least $30.1 billion in Saudi military
contracts approved by the State Department over the last 10 years.
In April, President Donald Trump vetoed a resolution that would have ended American support for the Saudi-UAE
coalition war against Yemen. Such efforts have failed to meet the 60-vote veto-proof threshold needed in the
Senate.
There are a few senators who didn’t vote for the War Powers resolution “that will probably vote for the Raytheon
sales,” Brittany Benowitz, a lawyer and former adviser to a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told
TAC. “I think you’ll continue to see horrific bombings and as the famine rages on, people will start
to ask, ‘Why are we a part of this war?’ Unfortunately, I don’t think that will start to happen anytime soon.”
Barbara Boland is TAC’s foreign policy and national security reporter. Follow her on Twitter @BBatDC
INTERVIEW: Dilyana Gaytandzhieva reveals US arms trafficking to ISIS
“While US President Donald Trump boasts about the defeat
of Islamic State in Syria, US government-purchased weapons appear in the hands of Islamic State terrorists in
Yemen.”
During
EP 294 of the SUNDAY WIRE show, host Patrick Henningsen spoke with Bulgarian investigative journalist
Dilyana Gaytandzhieva, to discuss her latest
ground-breaking
investigation which reveals illegal US Department of Defense operation to traffic weapons clear into
2018-2019 – and into the hands of ISIS terrorists in Yemen and Syria. The details in this story leave no doubt as
to the scale and severity of this illegal operation which contravenes US, EU and international law.
he US ‘War Economy’. One can also argue there are very powerful vested interests in the US
corporate structure who have, and will continue to benefit from a heated arms build-up, and will
certainly use the North Korea threat as a justification to push forward spending, especially in
light of Washington’s new found austerity culture ushered in through recent budget sequestrations.
America’s new pivot towards Asia provides the catch-all policy net, while the two-way propaganda
duel between the two countries provides the fear needed to justify a new military build up in the
region.”
--Patrick Henningsen --
North Korea: Beyond the cold war theatrics, is there really a nuclear threat to US?
'Best Military
Equipment':
Trump pushes for more arms in Asia amid N. Korean
crisis
RT, Published on Nov 7, 2017
Donald Trump is in South Korea on the second stop of his Asia tour and he's once again stressed the need to buy
American made arms. Some are even asking if he's sticking to exactly the same script from country to country.
Fire And Fury...And Profits! Korea Crisis Great For The War
Industry
WAR IS A
RACKET
North Korea: Defense contractors laughing all the way to the
bank
Yesterday's nuclear brinkmanship between President Trump and North Korean
leader Kim Jong-Un may have terrified much of the rest of the world, but the military industrial
complex rubs its hands with glee. Profits are way up since the first Korean long-range missile test
in July
The United States has sent F-22 stealth fighter jets, to participate in ongoing
military drills with South Korea. Pyongyang earlier said it was in a 'state of war' with the South
following the latest round of sanctions over its nuclear test two months ago. In turn Seoul warned
that its ready to carry out a pre-emptive strike on its neighbour, in case of imminent attack.
James Corbett, host of the Corbett Report - believes that the U.S. is playing a dangerous
game by trying to benefit financially from the tension which could spill over at any
moment.
The Military Industrial Complex Paving The Way For The New World
Order
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Published on Oct 21, 2017
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President Trump vehemently denied an NBC report that he called for a ten-fold
increase in US nuclear weapons at a meeting this summer. Calling it "fake news," the president
reportedly threatened NBC's broadcast license. Is this really "fake news"? Or is President Trump
just continuing President Obama's massive nuclear weapons "modernization" program?
James Corbett Discusses U.S.-Japan Relations on RT
International
Raking in Cash: US missile defense sales soar as tensions rise with North
Korea
RT
Published on Aug 28, 2017
The US Defence giants - Lockheed Martin and Raytheon - are seeing a huge surge in
sales. They have both been awarded 900-million-dollar contracts by the Pentagon. This comes as U.S.
- North Korea nuclear tension continues to simmer. Sameera Khan takes a look at Trump's seeming
obsession with nuclear weapons and how it's sparking fears of a war.
Money For Military: Trump appoints defense industry lobbyist as army
secretary
RT
Published on Jul 31, 2017
Since Donald Trump took office, the share price of a number of military-industrial
companies has increased significantly. Among them are Boeing, which besides civilian planes has a
range of military aircraft, Lockheed Martin, a fighter jets and missile systems producer, and
Raytheon, a major US defense contractor.
However, there are growing suspicions that the president favors those companies who supported him
during his campaign. RT's Miguel Francis-Santiago has more details
Locked and loaded? US could make billions of dollars from weapons sales
to South Korea
RT
Published on Sep 7, 2017
With concern growing over the crisis on the Korean peninsula, and the possibility
of a global catastrophe, President Trump is yet to outline a strategy for tackling the
situation.
Trump to Sell South Korea Billions of
Dollars in Weapons
(ANTIWAR.COM) — President Trump’s intention to loosen
restrictions on South Korea’s maximum payload for missiles appears to have been built around the idea that it
would lead to more US arms sales. President Trump is already bragging it was worth “many
billions of dollars.”
This is likely to be the case, as the move makes South Korea’s top of the line missiles broadly
obsolete, and is intended to set the stage for a major new round of US arms sales, with bigger US missiles being
sold to the South Koreans, and well-connected arms makers profiting.
Officials are presenting this as a chance for South Korea to bolster its defenses against North Korea amid
mounting tension. In practice, both sides are already well-armed enough that an exchange of fire would devastate
both nations.
Historically such arms purchases have been mostly done to curry favor with the US, as recent administrations
have made increasing such sales a top priority. US missile makers will benefit, and that will keep defense industry
lobbyists happy.
Trump says US will sell billions in arms to South
Korea
President says Washington willing to approve arms sales
worth 'many billions of dollars' to South Korea
Washington: US President Donald Trump on
Monday told his South Korean counterpart Washington was willing to approve arms sales worth “many billions of
dollars” to Seoul following Pyongyang’s test of what it said was a miniaturized hydrogen bomb.
President Trump “provided his conceptual approval
for the purchase of many billions of dollars’ worth of military weapons and equipment from the United States
by South Korea,” said the White House, without providing details of any specific new contracts.
The United States sold arms worth nearly $5 billion (Dh18.4 billion) to South Korea between 2010
and 2016, according to an analysis by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Both leaders “underscored the grave threat that North Korea’s latest provocation poses to the
entire world,” and “agreed to maximize pressure on North Korea using all means at their disposal,” according to a
readout of the call.
The White House statement also confirmed an earlier announcement by Seoul that the United States
would lift restrictions on South Korean missile payload capabilities.
Seoul was previously restricted to a maximum warhead weight of 500 kilograms on its ballistic
missiles, according to a bilateral agreement with the United States signed in 2001.
The United States on Monday launched a bid at the UN Security Council to quickly slap the
“strongest possible measures” on North Korea in response to its sixth and most powerful nuclear test, but China and
Russia argued that diplomatic talks were needed to address the crisis.
Newsbud Contributing Author & Analyst
Christian Sorensen is a writer and an independent journalist. He served in the U.S. Air Force
from 2007-2011. He holds advanced degrees in Translation Studies and International Relations. His
work focuses on the U.S. war industry.
Newsbud Exclusive – War Is A Racket: Killing For State Purposes Is Now In
Corporate Hands!
Corporations rule the U.S. government. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the Pentagon, where
corporate contractors have completely seized the basic functions of what were once inherently
governmental occupations:
Preparation for war and fighting war. Killing for state purposes is now in corporate hands.
The following documents contain detailed summaries of how key corporations assist the U.S. Department of War.
The notes span all of 2017. The information presented was distilled from the Pentagon’s daily contracts. (The
information is robust yet incomplete, since the Pentagon is not transparent or forthcoming in the details of many
contracts). We provide these distillations as resources for investigative journalists and engaged citizens
alike.
The notes do not include the Big Seven: Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Textron, General
Dynamics, and United Technologies. The players listed below are not as well known, though they are still favorites
of the Pentagon. Their activities are as diverse as their profits are lavish. Their services – aircraft
maintenance, cyber, information technology, base support, and much more – are just a sliver of the U.S.
government’s overall war portfolio. War is a racket, and the wars will never end as long as Washington, D.C.,
maintains a standing war industry.
President Trump and his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told us the US had to assassinate Maj. Gen.
Qassim Soleimani last week because he was planning “Imminent attacks” on US citizens. I don’t
believe them.
Why not? Because Trump and the neocons – like Pompeo – have been lying about Iran for the past
three years in an effort to whip up enough support for a US attack. From the phony justification to
get out of the Iran nuclear deal, to blaming Yemen on Iran, to blaming Iran for an attack on Saudi
oil facilities, the US Administration has fed us a steady stream of lies for three years because
they are obsessed with Iran.
And before Trump’s obsession with attacking Iran, the past four US Administrations lied
ceaselessly to bring about wars on Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Serbia, Somalia, and the list
goes on.
At some point, when we’ve been lied to constantly and consistently for decades about a “threat”
that we must “take out” with a military attack, there comes a time where we must assume they are
lying until they provide rock solid, irrefutable proof. Thus far they have provided nothing. So I
don’t believe them.
President Trump has warned that his administration has already targeted 52 sites important to
Iran and Iranian culture and the US will attack them if Iran retaliates for the assassination of
Gen. Soleimani. Because Iran has no capacity to attack the United States, Iran’s retaliation if it
comes will likely come against US troops or US government officials stationed or visiting the
Middle East. I have a very easy solution for President Trump that will save the lives of
American servicemembers and other US officials: just come home. There is absolutely no reason for
US troops to be stationed throughout the Middle East to face increased risk of death for
nothing.[bold emphasis added]
In our Ron Paul Liberty Report program last week we observed that the US attack on a senior
Iranian military officer on Iraqi soil – over the objection of the Iraq government – would serve to
finally unite the Iraqi factions against the United States. And so it has: on Sunday the Iraqi
parliament voted to expel US troops from Iraqi soil. It may have been a non-binding resolution, but
there is no mistaking the sentiment. US troops are not wanted and they are increasingly in danger.
So why not listen to the Iraqi parliament?
Bring our troops home, close the US Embassy in Baghdad – a symbol of our aggression - and let
the people of the Middle East solve their own problems. Maintain a strong defense to protect the
United States, but end this neocon pipe-dream of ruling the world from the barrel of a gun. It does
not work. It makes us poorer and more vulnerable to attack. It makes the elites of Washington rich
while leaving working and middle class America with the bill. It engenders hatred and a desire for
revenge among those who have fallen victim to US interventionist foreign policy. And it
results in millions of innocents being killed overseas.
There is no benefit to the United States to trying to run the world. Such a foreign policy
brings only bankruptcy – moral and financial. Tell Congress and the Administration that for
America’s sake we demand the return of US troops from the Middle East!
"I don’t believe
them. Why not? Because Trump and the neocons – like Pompeo – have been lying about Iran
for the past three years in an effort to whip up enough support for a US
attack."
"Bring our troops home, close the US
Embassy in Baghdad – a symbol of our aggression - and let the people of the Middle East solve
their own problems."
The exchange of artillery fire between North and South Korea,
which the North says was started by South Korea firing shells
during a military drill, could act as the catalyst for a
huge new conflict that the RAND Corporation has been lobbying for over the past two
years.
The clash, which took place on the Yellow Sea border island of Yeonpyeong, killed
two South Korean soldiers and wounded 18 others. North Korea has reportedly fired some 200 shells,
setting numerous buildings on fire on the island. Both countries have elevated their threat status
and are preparing for potential full out warfare.
As we warned two years ago, the military-industrial complex has been
yearning for a new conflict since the invasion of Iraq some seven and a half years
ago.
Back in October 2008, we reported on how the RAND Corporation was lobbying for a
war to be started with a major foreign power in order to stimulate the American economy and prevent
a double dip recession.
The RAND Corporation is a notoriously powerful NGO with deep ties to the
U.S. military-industrial complex as well as interlocking connections with the Ford, Rockefeller,
and Carnegie foundations.
[Continued on last column]
INSIDE RAND
CORPORATION
Cuban-born
journalist and author Alex Abella was allowed exclusive access inside the RAND Corporation to view
their archives. What he discovered was a plot driven by mad scientists, behaviorists, and generals
who were intent on starting world war three and fleecing the American people in the process.
Once he was a skeptic on the subject of conspiracy theories and the
new world order, but after his work with the RAND Corporation he is now convinced that this top
secret think tank has been pulling the strings of American government for at least 60
years.
This top secret think tank has been pulling the strings of American government
for at least 60 years
Born in the wake of World War II as a factory of ideas designed to advise the Air
Force on how to wage and win wars, RAND quickly grew into a magnet for the best and brightest, and
became the creator of America’s nuclear strategy in the struggle against the Soviets. From its
ranks arose Cold War luminaries Albert Wohlstetter, Bernard Brodie, and Herman Kahn, who arguably
saved us from nuclear annihilation with their doctrines of fail-safe and second strike, and
unquestionably created what Eisenhower first termed the military-industrial complex.
The Kennedy era brought RAND directly into the corridors of power, where its
analysts became McNamara’s Whiz Kids and its theories of rational warfare steered our conduct in
the Vietnam War. Those same theories would drive our invasion of Iraq forty-five years later,
championed by RAND-affiliated actors such as Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Zalmay Khalilzad, and
Donald Rumsfeld. But RAND’s greatest contribution might be its least known: rational choice theory,
a model explaining all human behavior through self-interest. With that theory RAND sparked the
Reagan-led transformation of our social and economic system and also unleashed a resurgence of
precisely the forces whose existence it denied—religion, patriotism, tribalism.
...RAND's ultimate goal was to have technocrats
running every aspect of society in pursuit of a one world
government that would be administered under "the rule of reason," a ruthless world where
efficiency was king and men were little more than machines, which is why RAND studied the social
sciences because they were at a loss to work out how to deal with people and how human beings did
not always act in their own predictable self-interests. There is no place for love, empathy or
selflessness in the new world order that RAND and the Ford Foundation are
working to create, and patriotism and altruism are adversarial to their aims.
Rand Corp.
Exposed, Corbett Report Podcast
Description: What is a think tank and how can a mere research institution actually
shape the society it claims to be studying? Join us this week on The Corbett Report as we head down
into the nuclear bunker with the boys from RAND to unearth the secrets of the research institution
that has molded our world for the past 60 years.
Wayne Madsen & Alex Jones: North Korea Attack Part Of RAND Plan For
Total War? 2/2
The Alex Jones Channel
Published on Nov 23, 2010
[First column continued]
The RAND proposal, which was reported on by Chinese media sources, brazenly
urged that a new war could be launched to benefit the economy, but stressed that the target country
would have to be a major influential power, and not a smaller country on the scale of Afghanistan
or Iraq.
Although at the time RAND considered North Korea on its own to be too small
a target, any full scale confrontation between the Koreas would embroil the United States on the
side of the South and China on the side of the North. If North
Korea were to tap its arsenal of nuclear weapons, the entire international community would quickly
rubber stamp a US-led military assault on the rogue nation.
Given the fact that North Korea's nuclear belligerency has its foundations in the best efforts of
people like Donald Rumsfeld and the Bush administration, through the AQ Khan weapons trading
network, to provide Communist agitator Kim Jong-Il and his hereditary successor with nuclear
weapons, the fact that we are now seeing tensions reach boiling point
represents a huge opportunity for the US military-industrial complex to manipulate into being the
massive war that they have been seeking for years.
Paul Joseph Watson is the
editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a
fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show. Watson has been interviewed by many publications and radio
shows, including Vanity Fair and Coast to Coast AM, America's most listened to late night talk
show.
Alex and crew visit the RAND Corp and cover the mushroom cloud and
more
“In
the real executive power structure, the president serves the military industrial complex, itself owned by the
international bankers...”
-- Alex Jones...before he soldout --
lookintoit.org January 21,
2018
Since the time of the above report of
2010, Wayne Madsen and Alex Jones have fallen out with each other. Wayne Madsen has gone on record
that Alex Jones is no longer covering the news as he had in the past, and has soldout to Trump/The
Establishment. As far as I am aware, during the first year of Trump's presidency, there has been no
mention of The Rand Corporation in Alex Jones' reporting (as seen above) in regard to the North
Korea US conflict.
I agree with Madsen; Jones selling out can not be any more obvious than his hawkish stance on
foreign policy, where on his news broadcast he has recently "war gamed" a preemptive nuclear strike
on North Korea that would kill one million Koreans, and ranted about striking China — which would
certainly doom the entire planet! He's repeatedly had Joel Skousen on his show, who claims it is
“The Deep State” that is preventing Trump from striking North Korea (a
supreme psyop) and in a recent instance, exclaims that the only way to have peace with North Korea
is to, "take them out". (You can watch his insane nonsense at this on the
Rand page - look for The InfoWarmonger
Thumbnail). Absurdly, after entertaining such Dr. Strangelove type horrors, and
others that I won’t go into here, Alex Jones every now and then announces that he doesn't want
war and that he's not a warmonger?!
To prove that to me, it would take him reporting about the
provocative US military drills on North Korea's border - which could actually start a world
war — with at least a fraction of the coverage he gave one US military drill in Texas and a
few other states called: Jade Helm
15. Infowars created such national hysteria behind this one exercise that even the
governor of Texas responded by assigning the state guard to monitor the operation because of
what our own US military could potentially do to American citizens. (Jade Helm report here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o51LIuoKgnI)
Last time I counted Infowars’ videos on Jade Helm15 it was 65+… They have done
ZERO video reports on the incendiary Korean Peninsula drills. No
matter how wrong the Jade Helm 15 exercise could have gone, it is nothing in comparison to
what could go wrong with the annual drills: UFG, FOAL EAGLE, and KEY
RESOLVE being done on North Korea's border. They get bigger every year, and along
with them a greater potential for WWIII. In a 2017 Telegraph Article: 'Tipping point for
Nuclear War' stated, "Pyongyang described the joint drill as a ‘dangerous military
gambit of warmongers who are trying to ignite the fuse of a nuclear war on the peninsula.’ ‘A
small misjudgment or error can immediately lead to the beginning of a nuclear war, which will
inevitably lead to another world war,’ it said."
These war maneuvers are what causes North Korea to do their missile testing, but this integral
part of the narrative is left out on purpose by the CIA controlled
media, and the average person ambivalently concludes that North Korea is the aggressor. Alex
knows this because Paul Watson’s article is about these drills almost starting the major conflict
that RAND has been waiting for to “boost the economy”. Alex suppresses this aspect, and points all
the blame at North Korea. Therefore, this kind of manipulation serves to build the consensus The
Establishment needs in taking the military action they had planned all along…And the public is
duped yet again into supporting a war for the psychopaths that caused it!
On top of this, instead of holding Trump
accountable to his sworn allegiance to the American
Constitution, Alex Jones has become a rank apologist for the manufactured war on terror
which defies it, and destroys countless lives of civilians in the Middle East! One such
example is the War Crimes being done in our name in Yemen: Look at the homepage article:
Infowars Turns a Blind Eye to the Impending Deaths of 50,000 Children in
Yemen! In 2009, Alex Jones produced his documentary The Obama
Deception — the mask comes off, where he points out how the N.W.O. uses the
president for the bidding of the military industrial complex. Ironically, now it is Alex
Jones’ mask that is coming off by his endorsement and constant shilling for Trump who
represents this bloodthirsty complex like no other before him, killing more civilians in his
first year, and openly threatening the death of millions on a twitter account!
Alex Jones is nothing more than Trump's/The Establishment’s PR stooge, whose role is (along with
many other pseudo ALT-media) to project a false dichotomy of, “Trump vs The Deep State” when in
fact Trump's foreign policy actions have revealed him to be its frontman, not its adversary. In my
opinion, Alex Jones is able to keep this disgraceful deception going only because the majority of
his viewership is either too new, or has no memory of what he has said and covered in the past. An
example of his prior work condemning his present preemptive war attitude, would be his exposé on
the RAND Corporation. Please investigate RAND Corp and their maniacal nuclear war plans for "The
Big War" as the article above stated, plans it seems Alex Jones and this administration are all in
congruence with. Go to the RAND page to see several of his videos
promoting preemptive strikes. You can hear what Wayne Madsen and others had to say about
Alex Jones in the Youtube Video Below: Infowars Employees Expose Alex
Jones.
Nuclear WAR is not to be trivialized as it has been by president Trump and news media like Alex
Jones/Infowars, and should concern every person living on this planet. Do not sit idly by and allow
the government or media to carelessly and irresponsibly ramp tensions, or tolerate threats about
mass death as though it were just normal barbarous squalling from some ancient coliseum. Call these
warmongers out because your life and all those whom you love depend on it.
@28:17 "...whenever I go to a family reunion half the people in the room are
former retired CIA." - Alex Jones
Douglas Valentine
The CIA as Organize Crime
"If you give a man the correct information for seven years, he may believe the
incorrect information on the first day of the eighth year when it is necessary, from your point of
view, that he should do so. Your first job is to build the credibility and the authenticity of your
propaganda, and persuade the enemy to trust you although you are his enemy."
- A Psychological Warfare Casebook Operations Research Office Johns Hopkins
University Baltimore (1958)
Former Alex Jones employees and guests speak out about the big problems going on at Infowars
Featuring:
Rob Jacobson
Kurt Nimmo
Anthony Gucciardi
Aaron and Melissa Dykes
Luke Ridkowski
Jason Bermas
David Icke
Wayne Madsen
and Jack Blood
Alex Jones, Trump, & the False Left vs Right
Paradigm
Ditch Your Box Streamed live on
May 3, 2017
My guest was unable to make it so I went on solo.
I discuss the change in Alex Jones and Donald Trump
from being outside the paradigm of left v right politics to now openly promoting
it.
We cover the false ways the war on terror is promoted
via things like the refugee crisis and Islamic terror. I also talk about the use of Donald Trump as
a tool to reshape American political discourse in a similar fashion to Barak Obama did with the
anti-war movement and civil rights issues he vowed to stand for (but didn't).
I also talk briefly about Israel and Peter Sutherland's dialog with the EU about
changing the demographics of the member states in order to fight homogeneity.
"...So if China keeps pushing the only option is full commitment to hit China
preemptively."
Nuclear War Imminent: US Prepares To
Strike North Korean Missile Sites
The Alex Jones Channel
Published on Apr 5, 2017
Bannon removed from Security council, And China through North Korea is rattling sabres at the USA.
The world is in crisis and on the brink of nuclear war.
"Those crazy people have proven they will go to war.
They're completely psycho like Kim Jung Un on
power trips. So if China keeps pushing the only option is full commitment to hit China
preemptively. That's the only way to survive this nuclear war and Trump knows
it."
"...The United States is preparing to Nuke China so get ready
assholes!" -- Alex
Jones
Amy Goodman: "How close do you think the U.S. is to nuclear war with North Korea, Professor
Cumings?"
“W
ell, I was asked that by people in Korea, who have a little bit more interest
in the subject than we do, although probably their missiles can reach here in Chicago. You know,
I’ve been thinking about this question for six months. And I can’t believe anyone in their right
mind would want to launch a preemptive attack, either to take out—if it could be done—North Korea’s
nuclear weapons and missiles or to decapitate the regime, which we talk about or which the Pentagon
and inside-the-Beltway people talk about as if that would be great, if we could get away with it.
It’s, of course, completely in violation of international law to do something like
that.
A nuclear war between
North Korea and the United States would devastate the region. But more than that, it would
probably lead to at least two years of nuclear winter, where the debris swirling around the planet
and the atmosphere would make it impossible to grow crops. Anyone who talks about nuclear war in
this day and age, with all we know about nuclear winter and the terrible effects of nuclear
weapons, is basically a war criminal, in my view. Nuclear weapons should never be used. And
especially to see a president of United States go to the United Nations and threaten to totally
destroy North Korea, I mean, that was just nauseating. And one thing he forgot, since he knows no
history, is we already did that during the Korean War. We razed every North Korean city to the
ground with firebombing and incendiaries. And it still didn’t work. They still fought us to a
stalemate. There’s no military solution in Korea. We should have recognized that in
1953.
- Bruce Cumings, Chairman of the Department of History at the University of Chicago -
- Soldiers being exposed to high levels of radiation
-
Let this footage be a vivid reminder that certain people on this
planet care nothing about it, nor their fellow man. If the "US government" would do this to its own troops of
the "indispensable and exceptional nation because of its values", can you imagine what these types of people are
doing and have planned for the world? ...Speakout, educate others, and do not tolerate or support those who'd
talk about nuking nations as an option to solve the tensions that exist between them.
“In the real executive power
structure, the president serves the military industrial complex, itself owned by the international
bankers...”
-- Alex Jones...before he soldout --
How Trump Filled The Swamp
corbettreport
Published on Feb 3, 2017 SHOW
NOTES AND MP3
With promises to "drain the swamp!" still ringing in our ears, we have watched
Trump appoint nothing but Goldman banksters,
Soros stooges, neocon war hawks and police state zealots to head his
cabinet. Join us this week on The Corbett Report as we examine the
swamp-dwellers with which Trump has filled his swamp.
Phoenix as the Model for Homeland Security and the War On Terror
- Douglas Valentine -
CIA Pacification Programs, Secret Interrogation Centers, Counter Terror Teams, Propaganda Teams
and military and civilian tribunals in all 44 provinces of South Vietnam; 1965 US military sent
in; National Liberation Front; secret 1967 CIA General Staff For Pacification combining all
CIA, military, and South Vietnamese programs to became The Phoenix Program; Phoenix based on
systems analysis theory combining 20-30 programs to pacify South Vietnamese civilians to
support the government; Phoenix instituted to more perfectly coordinate CIA and military
operations; streamlined and bureaucratized a system of political repression in South Vietnam;
media cover-up; CIA Foreign Intelligence including the Hamlet Information Program, the Province
Interrogation Center program and Agent Penetrations; CIA Covert Action Program; reliance on
corruption; Pacific Architects and Engineers oversaw design and construction of interrogation
centers in South Vietnam which became the model for the black sites.
Originally Aired: January 11, 2017
Trump Fills the Swamp With Steven
Mnuchin
corbettreport
Published on Dec 7, 2016 SHOW
NOTES AND MP3
Trump has named Steven Mnuchin as his Treasury Secretary. So who is Mnuchin, and
what does his background tell us about his ideology and what kind of administration Trump is
assembling? Today we talk to Michael Krieger of LibertyBlitzkrieg.com about Mnuchin's career, his
Goldman Sachs and Soros ties, and his shady business practices, as well as the other people being
appointed to helm the Trump White House.
Economic progress under Trump is illusion, crash coming - Ron Paul
-
RT
Published on Jan 3, 2018
With his first year in office drawing to a close, the US president has been talking up his
economic record in typical Trump style. But one man who does not share Trump's optimism is former
congressman Ron Paul. He told RT the growth is not even for all people.
The Fed Is Safe Under Trump
RonPaulLibertyReport
Nov 3 2017
President Trump is great at stirring up controversies and throwing red meat to the
media. He's great at keeping the left in a permanent state of hyperventilation. He's great at
rallying his supporters. But when it comes to actual policies, the
status quo has been maintained across the board. The warfare is safe. The welfare is safe. Even the
Federal Reserve is safe under Trump.
As The Corbett Report reported last year, Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater,
has slithered out from his hiding place and re-emerged as a figure on the political stage. He is
now
advocating for a rebirth of the US' infamous "Phoenix Program" to target the ISIS terrorists the
US created, and he is advising Trump from the shadows. Today Douglas Valentine, author of
The Phoenix Program and The CIA As Organized Crime joins us to discuss what The Phoenix Program
is and why its resurrection is so ominous.
The Incredible Trump Deception - F.
William Engdahl -
Originally Aired: December 28, 2016
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We examine some of the early political appointments of the new Trump
administration and the geopolitical shift in American foreign policy that it represents. The powers
behind the Trump presidency - the Netanyahu Likud connected think-tank, The Foundation for the
Defense of Democracies, including General Mike Flynn, Walid Phares; James Woolsey, and Michael
Ledeen, among others; an attack on the nuclear deal with Iran; the failed strategy of using radical
political Islam to destabilize and destroy countries; a strengthened alliance between Russia, China
and Iran; the failed CIA coup in Turkey of July 2016; a strong dollar policy and a weakened
European Union; rising interest rates and concomitant flight capital to a Wall Street safe-haven;
making America great again by re-building Americas defense industry infrastructure. #356
Wake Up: Trump is a Compromised
Puppet of Private Interests
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N A T I O N A L D E B T ! ! ! ! !
!
How Zionist Israel is Robbing America
Blind!
First published at 01:15 UTC on September 6th, 2019.
It doesn't matter if you are a hard-working American. YOU are not
entitled to keep your own income. YOU are a cash cow for the Zionist state of Israel. America's labor force is
Israel's Golden Goose. And I am going
to show you the financial statistics to prove it.
This is the Perfect Explanation of How the War
Industry Works!
Blackstone Intelligence Network
Published on Feb 20, 2019
Representative Ilhan #Omar was attacked by politicians from both parties for suggesting that a foreign lobbying
group, #AIPAC, uses money to influence members of Congress to pass legislation that favors #Israel. This video
will prove not only that Omar was correct, but that these same crooked politicians are in the pockets of the
war industry. #BDS #Yemen
Under the rubric of Zionism, the dispossession of Palestinians and annexation of
their land has for decades been hidden in plain sight, along with Israeli apartheid and ethnic
cleansing. Though tourism flows in steadily to "The Holy Land," masking these egregious past and
present events from scrutiny, has been and is nothing short of Orwellian. The Zionist state of
Israel is a totalitarian state, whose ideologues' sentiments match those advocating world
government. As Rev. Chuck Baldwin exclaims, "For all intents and purposes, the Globalist agenda
(the New World Order, call it what you will) and the Zionist agenda, are one and the same." The
Trump Jones Deception 2, demonstrates this fact, and the way in which both Donald Trump and Alex
Jones are a part of it.
THOU SHALT NOT
STEAL ( ( ( ( This Includes Oil ) ) ) ) Neither Donald Trump Nor the US MilitaryAre Above GOD'S LAW! All People of Conscience Must Stand Against This
Blatant War Crime
Audio Excerpt: The Last American Vagabond - Video: Baghdadi Deception Exposed, Israel Bombs
Gaza After Phantom Rocket & US Violates Own Syria Sanctions
“In international law, you can’t take civilian goods or seize them. That would amount to a war
crime,” Anthony Cordesman, the Arleigh Burke chair in strategy at the Centre for Strategic and International
Studies. “Oil exports were almost the only Iraqi source of money. So you would have to pay for government
salaries, maintain the army, and you have triggered a level of national animosity far worse than we did. It
would be the worst kind of neo-colonialism. Not even Britain did that.” [bold emphasis
added]
Jay Hakes, the author of A Declaration of Energy Independence, about the relationship between US
national security and Middle Eastern oil, was similarly unsparing.“It is hard to overstate the stupidity of this
idea,” he wrote on Real Clear Energy. “Even our allies in the Middle East regard oil in their lands as a gift from
God and the only major source of income to develop their countries. Seizing Iraq’s oil would make our current
allies against Isis our new enemies. We would likely, at the least, have to return to the massive military
expenditures and deployment of American troops at the war’s peak.”
Hakes pointed out that Gen Douglas MacArthur, who Trump professes to admire, did the opposite when
he oversaw the occupation of Japan: MacArthur brought resources in to help fend off starvation of the
population.“By giving up the spoils of war, MacArthur and the United States earned the respect of the Japanese and
the world, helping legitimise America’s status as leader of the free world,” he argued.
MILITARY INDUSTRIAL
COMPLEX COMPLETELY OUT OF
CONTROL
2.3 Trillion Dollars Missing
And Noone Is Held Responsible!...
Yet We Will Have To Pay For It!
Black Budget: US govt
clueless about missing Pentagon $trillions
RT
Published on Dec 21, 2013
The Pentagon has secured a 630 billion dollar budget for next year, even though
it's failed to even account for the money it's received since 1996. A whopping 8.5 trillion dollars
of taxpayer cash have gone to defence programmes - none of which has been audited. This black
budget has sparked concerns over potential fraud, as Gayane Chichakyan reports.
"...A whopping 8.5 trillion dollars of taxpayer cash
have gone to defence programmes - none of which has been audited. This black budget has
sparked concerns over potential fraud."
$21 Trillion In Missing Tax Money ~ Max Keiser,
Stacy Herbert & David DeGraw #AuditThePentago
Changemaker Media
Published on May 2, 2018
According to the Department of Defense Inspector General and the Defense Finance
and Accounting Service, $21 Trillion in Taxpayer Funding Is Unaccounted For.
As unbelievable and absurd as that sounds, the actual total of unaccounted for
money at the Pentagon is most likely significantly more than $21 trillion.
To help people comprehend the scale of this, $1 Trillion is $1000 Billion. This
means that $21,000 Billion in taxpayer money has gone missing. [Cont. On Next Column]
The First ever “full-scope audit” of the Pentagon is presently underway.
For much more info, please read:
War Profiteers Vs. The People of the United States – Opening Statement
This is the first part in a series of investigative reports on how the National
“Security” State and Global Private Military Companies violate the U.S. Constitution, rob trillions
of taxpayer dollars from the American People and fuel terrorism worldwide. here
How $21 Trillion In Tax Money Disappeared #AuditThePentagon
Another mind-blowing Department of Defense Inspector General (DOD IG) report. The
following are highlights from the DOD IG “Summary of DOD Office of the Inspector General Audits of
Financial Management” here
$21 Trillion! Blowing the Whistle on the Largest
Theft Ever ~ Lee Camp on #PentagonAudit
According to the United States Office of the Inspector General, $21 Trillion in
taxpayer money is unaccounted for. As unbelievable and absurd as that sounds, the actual total of
unaccounted for taxpayer money at the Pentagon is most likely significantly more than $21
trillion.
This is part of our series on the unaccounted for $21 Trillion in taxpayer money. As unbelievable and
absurd as that sounds, the actual total of unaccounted for money at the Pentagon is most likely significantly
more than $21 trillion. The First ever “full-scope audit” of the Pentagon is presently underway. Read the first
report from this
series here.
*
According to the Department of Defense Inspector General and the Defense Finance and Accounting Service,
$21 Trillion in Taxpayer Funding Is Unaccounted For.
To help people comprehend the scale of this, $1 Trillion is $1000 Billion. This means that $21,000 Billion
in taxpayer money has gone missing.
How can this be possible?
We outlined the “Unaccountable System of Global War Profiteers” in detail here.
For further understanding, we are featuring another mind-blowing Department of
Defense Inspector General (DOD IG) report.
The following are highlights from the DOD IG “Summary of DOD Office of the
Inspector General Audits of Financial Management”:
The financial management systems DOD has put in place to control and monitor the money
flow don’t facilitate but actually “prevent DOD from collecting and reporting financial
information… that is accurate, reliable, and timely.” (p. 4)
DOD frequently enters “unsupported” (i.e. imaginary) amounts in its books (p. 13) and
uses those figures to make the books balance. (p. 14)
Inventory records are not reviewed and adjusted; unreliable and inaccurate data are
used to report inventories, and purchases are made based on those distorted inventory
reports. (p. 7)
DOD managers do not know how much money is in their accounts at the Treasury, or when
they spend more than Congress appropriates to them. (p. 5)18
Nor does DOD “record, report, collect, and reconcile” funds received from other
agencies or the public (p. 6),
DOD tracks neither buyer nor seller amounts when conducting transactions with other
agencies. (p. 12)
“The cost and depreciation of the DOD general property, plant, and equipment are not
reliably reported….” (p. 8);
“… the value of DOD property and material in the possession of contractors is not
reliably reported.” (p. 9)
DOD does not know who owes it money, nor how much. (p. 10.)
“audit trails” are not kept “in sufficient detail,”
which means no one can track the money;
DOD’s “Internal Controls,” intended to track the
money, are inoperative. Thus, DOD cost reports and financial
statements are inaccurate, and the size, even the direction (in
plus or minus values), of the errors cannot be identified,
and
DOD does not observe many of the laws that govern
all this.
It is as if the accountability and appropriations
clauses of the U.S. Constitution were just window dressing, behind
which this mind-numbing malfeasance thrives. [bold
added]
Technically, this is a violation of the Anti-Deficiency Act, a
statute carrying felony sanctions of fines and imprisonment.
Congress and the Pentagon annually report and hold hearings on
DOD’s lack of financial accountability and sometimes enact new
laws, but many of the new laws simply permit the Pentagon to ignore
the previous ones; others are eyewash.
If you have a system that does not accurately know what its
spending history is, and does not know what it is now (and does not
care to redress the matter), how can you expect it to make a
competent, honest estimate of future costs?
It is self-evident that an operation that tolerates inaccurate,
unverifiable data cannot be soundly managed; it exempts itself from
any reasonable standard of efficiency.
Recall, also that the errors in cost, schedule and performance
that result are not random: actual costs always turn out to be much
higher than, sometimes even multiples of, early estimates; the
schedule is always optimistic, and the performance is always
inflated.
The Pentagon, defense industry and their congressional
operatives want – need – to increase the money flow into the system
to pretend to improve it.
Supported by a psychology of
excessive secrecy, generated fear and the ideological belief that
there is no alternative to high cost, high complexity weapons,
higher budgets are easier to justify, especially if no one can sort
out how the Pentagon actually spends its money. [highlight
added]
The key to the DOD spending problem is to initiate financial
accountability. No failed system can be understood or fixed if it
cannot be accurately measured.
And yet, there is no sense of urgency in the Pentagon to do
anything about it.
Indeed, in the 1990s, we were promised the accountability
problem would be solved by 1997. In the early 2000s, we were
promised it would be solved by 2007; then by 2016; then by
2017….
The question must be asked: if nothing has been done by the
Pentagon to end the accountability problem after more than 20 years
of promises, is top management simply incompetent, or is this the
intended result of obfuscation to avert accountability?
A spending system that effectively audits its weapon programs
and offices would also be one that systemically uncovers
incompetent and crooked managers, false promises and those who made
them.
It would also necessarily reveal reasons to dramatically alter,
if not cease, funding for some programs, which of course would make
lots of people in industry, Congress, and the executive branch
unhappy.
The current system and its out of control finances
mortally harm our defenses, defraud taxpayers, and bloat the
Pentagon and federal budgets.
Any reform that fails to address this most fundamental
problem is merely another doomed attempt that will only serve to
perpetuate a system that thrives on falsehoods and deception.
[bold added]
William Hartung, Director of the Arms and
Security Project at the Center for International Policy, summed up
the accountability crisis at the Pentagon by saying:
“Call it irony or call it symptomatic of the department’s
way of life, but an analysis by the Project on Government
Oversight notes the Pentagon has so far spent roughly $6
billion on ‘fixing’ the audit problem — with no solution in
sight.
If anything, the Defense Department’s accounting practices
have been getting worse.”
The above post was an excerpt from The Pentagon Labyrinth,
10 Short Essays to Help You Through It. It was written by, “10
Pentagon Insiders, Retired Military Officers and Specialists With
Over 400 Years of Defense Experience.” The section we featured is
from Essay #8, Decoding the Defense Budget: The Ultimate in
Cooked Numbers, by Winslow T. Wheeler. *
Report Full PDF
Here *
N A T I O N A L D E B T ! ! ! ! !
!
"...True, the United States does enjoy the “benefit” of appearing supremely powerful, but this is only
a cruel joke. When the Network is satisfied that all major obstacles to its unelected rule have been removed,
it will be a simple matter to destroy the US dollar, “justifiably” cut off the flow of money and credit to the
United States, and create the political incentive (necessity) for the United States to fully enter the new
global system..."
-- Joe Plummer, Tragedy & Hope 101 Chapter 3 The Network “Recovers”
America--
Dr. Mark Skidmore of Michigan State University joins us to
discuss his research with Catherine Austin Fitts into the $21 trillion in unaccounted transactions on the
books of the US Department of Defence and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. We discuss
what we know and don't know about the subject, the Pentagon's nonsensical and inadequate excuses for the
debacle, the new accounting guideline that legally allows every department of the federal government to
create fake and altered books for public consumption, the recent failed Pentagon audit, the government's
refusal to provide any information about the problem, the failure of congress to pursue the issue, and
the failure of the press to report on it.
This is part of our series on the unaccounted for $21 Trillion
in taxpayer money. As unbelievable and absurd as that sounds, the actual total of unaccounted for money at
the Pentagon is most likely significantly more than $21 trillion. The First ever “full-scope audit” of the
Pentagon is presently underway. Read the first report from this series
here.
*
According to the Department of Defense Inspector General and the Defense Finance and Accounting Service,
$21 Trillion in Taxpayer Funding Is Unaccounted For.
To help people comprehend the scale of this, $1 Trillion is $1000 Billion. This means that $21,000 Billion
in taxpayer money has gone missing.
How can this be possible?
We outlined the “Unaccountable System of Global War Profiteers” in detail here.
For further understanding, we are featuring another mind-blowing Department of
Defense Inspector General (DOD IG) report.
The following are highlights from the DOD IG “Summary of DOD Office of the
Inspector General Audits of Financial Management”:
The financial management systems DOD has put in place to control and
monitor the money flow don’t facilitate but actually “prevent DOD from
collecting and reporting financial information… that is accurate, reliable,
and timely.” (p. 4)
DOD frequently enters “unsupported” (i.e. imaginary) amounts in its
books (p. 13) and uses those figures to make the books balance. (p.
14)
Inventory records are not reviewed and adjusted; unreliable and
inaccurate data are used to report inventories, and purchases are made
based on those distorted inventory reports. (p. 7)
DOD managers do not know how much money is in their accounts at the
Treasury, or when they spend more than Congress appropriates to them. (p.
5)18
Nor does DOD “record, report, collect, and reconcile” funds received
from other agencies or the public (p. 6),
DOD tracks neither buyer nor seller amounts when conducting
transactions with other agencies. (p. 12)
“The cost and depreciation of the DOD general property, plant, and
equipment are not reliably reported….” (p. 8);
“… the value of DOD property and material in the possession of
contractors is not reliably reported.” (p. 9)
DOD does not know who owes it money, nor how much. (p. 10.)
“audit trails” are not kept “in sufficient detail,” which means
no one can track the
money;
DOD’s “Internal Controls,” intended to track the money, are inoperative.
Thus, DOD cost reports and financial statements are inaccurate, and the size,
even the direction (in plus or minus values), of the errors cannot be
identified, and
DOD does not observe many of the laws that govern all this.
It is as if the accountability and appropriations clauses of the U.S.
Constitution were just window dressing, behind which this mind-numbing malfeasance
thrives.
[SHORT v.]
Update on that
missing $21+ Trillion, David DeGraw & Lee
Camp
Changemaker Media
Published on Jun 22, 2018
The fundamental rule when operating in chaos is
to tell the “truth.” It is all you have as a shield & weapon.
That is the guidepost...
Technically, this is a violation of the Anti-Deficiency Act, a statute
carrying felony sanctions of fines and imprisonment.
Congress and the Pentagon annually report and hold hearings on DOD’s lack of
financial accountability and sometimes enact new laws, but many of the new laws
simply permit the Pentagon to ignore the previous ones; others are eyewash.
If you have a system that does not accurately know what its spending history is,
and does not know what it is now (and does not care to redress the matter), how can
you expect it to make a competent, honest estimate of future costs?
It is self-evident that an operation that tolerates inaccurate, unverifiable
data cannot be soundly managed; it exempts itself from any reasonable standard of
efficiency.
Recall, also that the errors in cost, schedule and performance that result are
not random: actual costs always turn out to be much higher than, sometimes even
multiples of, early estimates; the schedule is always optimistic, and the
performance is always inflated.
The Pentagon, defense industry and their congressional operatives want – need –
to increase the money flow into the system to pretend to improve it.
Supported by a psychology of excessive secrecy, generated fear and the
ideological belief that there is no alternative to high cost, high complexity
weapons, higher budgets are easier to justify, especially if no one can sort out
how the Pentagon actually spends its money.
The key to the DOD spending problem is to initiate financial accountability. No
failed system can be understood or fixed if it cannot be accurately measured.
And yet, there is no sense of urgency in the Pentagon to do anything about
it.
Indeed, in the 1990s, we were promised the accountability problem would be
solved by 1997. In the early 2000s, we were promised it would be solved by 2007;
then by 2016; then by 2017….
[LONG v.]
Truth About $21
Trillion Missing At The Pentagon w/ David
Degraw
Changemaker Media
Published on Jun 22, 2018
How $21 Trillion in U.S. Tax Money Disappeared.
“Full Scope Audit” of the Pentagon
The question must be asked: if nothing has been done by the Pentagon to end
the accountability problem after more than 20 years of promises, is top management
simply incompetent, or is this the intended result of obfuscation to avert
accountability?
A spending system that effectively audits its weapon programs and offices would
also be one that systemically uncovers incompetent and crooked managers, false
promises and those who made them.
It would also necessarily reveal reasons to dramatically alter, if not cease,
funding for some programs, which of course would make lots of people in industry,
Congress, and the executive branch unhappy.
The current system and its out of control finances mortally harm our defenses,
defraud taxpayers, and bloat the Pentagon and federal budgets.
Any reform that fails to address this most fundamental problem is merely another
doomed attempt that will only serve to perpetuate a system that thrives on
falsehoods and deception.
William Hartung, Director of the Arms and
Security Project at the Center for International Policy, summed up the accountability crisis at the Pentagon
by saying:
“Call it irony or call it symptomatic of the department’s way of life, but an analysis by the Project on
Government Oversight notes the Pentagon has so far spent roughly $6 billion on ‘fixing’ the audit problem —
with no solution in sight.
If anything, the Defense Department’s accounting practices have been getting worse.”
The above post was an excerpt from The Pentagon Labyrinth,
10 Short Essays to Help You Through It. It was written by, “10 Pentagon Insiders, Retired Military
Officers and Specialists With Over 400 Years of Defense Experience.” The section we featured is from Essay
#8, Decoding the Defense Budget: The Ultimate in Cooked Numbers, by Winslow T.
Wheeler. * Report Full PDF Here *
Big Military Spending Boost Threatens Our Economy and
Security
by Ron Paul
(Excerpt From The Article)
...Unfortunately President Trump seems to
be incapable of understanding that it is US intervention and occupation of foreign countries that creates
instability and feeds terrorism. Continuing to do the same thing for more than 17 years – more US bombs to
“stabilize” the Middle East – and expecting different results is hardly a sensible foreign policy. It is insanity.
Until he realizes that our military empire is the source of rather than the solution to our problems, we will
continue to wildly spend on our military empire until the dollar collapses and we are brought to our knees. Then
what?
Did You Know That Almost Every Penny Of Your Income
Taxes Goes To Defense Spending?
By RETIII
Friday Mar 27, 2015
Every penny - maybe more,
maybe a little less. This was a pretty amazing revelation to me.
Now, the amount of defense spending is fairly always misrepresented. Many sources try to portray defense spending as
around 18% of all federal revenues - putting defense spending behind Social Security or
Medicare/Medicaid. The Obama White
House puts defense spending as 24.79% of tax revenues. Or, for example, Bill
Moyers puts the number at 27% of each tax dollar.
The numbers vary because many times defense related spending is not included in a given tally of
"defense spending." For example, one analysis may exclude the cost of nuclear weapons (which is
lodged under the Department of Energy). Or, for example, the Obama White House's 24.79% figure
includes nuclear weapon costs, but fails to include the cost of veteran benefits and disability or
(most glaring and most repeated) fails to apportion any part of the national debt service payments
to defense spending. (Failing to allocate a substantial portion of the debt service to defense
spending is indefensible. Defense spending is one of the largest annual outlays, and at least one
other large budget item - Social Security - has not added a nickel to the national debt at all.
Thus, each year a significant portion of the interest on the debt is directly attributable to prior
defense spending. To leave "interest payments" as some sort of free-standing, unallocable budget
item ignores both reality and basic accounting principles.)
When all the properly associated defense spending is added up, you start to get a more
representative number. Instead of 25 cents of every tax dollar, somewhere around 46 cents of each
tax dollar goes to defense spending. The 46 cent number is pretty shocking and undiscussed. Yet . .
. it still doesn't really convey the enormity of our defense spending.
Why? Look at the above chart (based on White House numbers). Without including any of the debt
interest or other defense related items buried in other categories (CIA, anyone?), the White
House's official number is $895 billion a year on defense spending. When debt interest and other
items are added in, the real amount of annual defense spending is roughly $1 trillion. (An
Atlantic
article put the 2013 defense spending as $994.3 billion. The Center for Defense
Information puts 2015 defense spending at
$1 trillion.)
Now look on the revenue side of the above chart: all individual income tax receipts total . . .
$1.1 trillion! In other words, all or nearly all of your April 15 income tax payments go
only to defense spending, without paying for any other function of government.
And viewing this solely through your personal income taxes is the appropriate way to finally
understand how skewed our defense spending has become. When you ask: "how much of my tax dollars go
to the military?", you are not thinking about excise taxes, customs and duties, estate taxes or
corporate taxes. You want to know how much of your income tax dollars go to defense spending?
Fairly, you can assume 100 cents of every dollar. All of it.
Think about that the next time you hear a budget debate, worries about the deficit, or an
argument about allegedly out-of-control social spending.
It is shocking . . . here is a link to
Eisenhower's farewell warning about the dangers of the military-industrial complex.
"The $1.3 trillion bill
was so monstrous that it would have made the biggest spender in the Obama Administration
blush." -- Ron Paul -- Neocons Are Back With a Big War Budget and Big War Plans
--- Weekly Update Mar 26, 2018 ---
By Rep. Ron Paul
March 26, 2018
On Friday, President Trump signed the omnibus spending bill for 2018. The $1.3 trillion bill was so monstrous that
it would have made the biggest spender in the Obama Administration blush. The image of leading Congressional
Democrats Pelosi and Schumer grinning and gloating over getting everything they wanted -- and then some -- will
likely come back to haunt Republicans at the midterm elections. If so, they will deserve it.
Even President Trump admitted the bill was horrible. As he said in the signing ceremony, “there are
a lot of things that we shouldn’t have had in this bill, but we were, in a sense, forced — if we want to build our
military…”
This is why I often say: forget about needing a third political party – we need a second political
party! Trump is admitting that to fuel the warfare state and enrich the military-industrial complex, it was
necessary to dump endless tax dollars into the welfare state.
But no one “forced” President Trump to sign the bill. His party controls both houses of Congress.
He knows that no one in Washington cares about deficits so he was more than willing to spread some Fed-created
money at home to get his massive war spending boost.
And about the militarism funded by the bill? Defense Secretary James Mattis said at the same press
conference that, “As the President noted, today we received the largest military budget in history, reversing many
years of decline and unpredictable funding.”
He’s right and wrong at the same time. Yes it is another big increase in military spending. In fact
the US continues to spend more than at least the next seven or so largest countries combined. But his statement is
misleading. Where are these several years of decline? Did we somehow miss a massive reduction in military spending
under President Obama? Did the last Administration close the thousands of military bases in more than 150 countries
while we weren’t looking?
Of course not.
On militarism, the Obama Administration was just an extension of the Bush Administration,
which was an extension of the militarism of the Clinton Administration. And so on. The military-industrial complex
continues to generate record profits from fictitious enemies. The mainstream media continues to play the game,
amplifying the war propaganda produced by the think tanks, which are funded by
the big defense contractors.
This isn’t a conspiracy theory. This is conspiracy fact. Enemies must be created to keep
Washington rich, even as the rest of the country suffers from the destruction of the dollar. That is why the
neocons continue to do very well in this Administration. [bold added]
While Trump and Mattis were celebrating big military spending increases, the president announced
that John Bolton, one of the chief architects of the Iraq war debacle, would become his national security advisor.
As former CIA analyst Paul Pillar has written, this is a man who, while at the State Department, demanded that
intelligence analysts reach pre-determined conclusions about Iraq and WMDs. He cooked the books for war.
Bolton is on the record calling for war with Iran, North Korea, even Cuba! His return to a senior
position in government is a return to the unconstitutional, immoral, and failed policies of pre-emptive war.
Make no mistake: the neocons are back and looking for another war. They’ve got the president’s ear.
Iran? North Korea? Russia? China? Who’s next for the warmongers?
Meet Neocon John Bolton,
the Most Hawkish National Security Adviser Imaginable
TheRealNews
Published on Mar 26, 2018
Trump's new national security adviser John Bolton, an architect of the Iraq War, is an extreme
hawk who wants to bomb Iran and North Korea and demanded regime change in Libya, Syria, and Venezuela.
Unlike corporations that sell to consumers, Lockheed Martin
and the other top contractors to the US Government are highly if not totally dependent upon sales to governments,
for their profits, especially sales to their own government, which they control — they control
their home market, which is the US Government, and they use it to sell to its allied governments, all of which
foreign governments constitute the export markets for their products and services. These corporations control the
US Government, and they control NATO. And, here is how they do it, which is essential to understand, in order to be
able to make reliable sense of America’s foreign policies, such as which nations are ‘allies’ of the US Government
(such as Saudi Arabia and Israel), and which nations are its ‘enemies’ (such as Libya and Syria) — and are thus
presumably suitable for America to invade, or else to overthrow by means of a coup. First, the nation’s
head-of-state becomes demonized; then, the invasion or coup happens. And, that’s it. And here’s
how.
Because America (unlike Russia) privatized the weapons-industry (and
even privatizes to mercenaries some of its battlefield killing and dying), there are, in America, profits for
investors to make in invasions and in military occupations of foreign countries; and the billionaires who
control these corporations can and do — and, for their financial purposes, they must — buy Congress and the
President, so as to keep those profits flowing to themselves. That’s the nature of the war-business, since
its markets are governments — but not those governments that the aristocracy want to overthrow and replace.
The foreign governments that are to be overthrown are not markets, but are instead targets. The
bloodshed and misery go to those unfortunate lands. But if you control these corporations, then you need
these invasions and occupations, and you certainly aren’t concerned about any of the victims, who (unlike
those profits) are irrelevant to your business. In fact, to the exact contrary: killing people and destroying
buildings etc., are what you sell — that’s what you (as a billionaire with a controlling interest
in one of the 100 top contractors to the US
Government) are selling to your own
government, and to all of the other governments that your country’s cooperative propaganda will characterize
as being ‘enemies’ — Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, etc. — and definitely not as being ‘allies’,
such as are being characterized these corporations’ foreign markets: Saudi Arabia, EU-NATO, Israel, etcetera.
In fact, as regards your biggest foreign markets, they will be those ‘allies’; so, you (that
is, the nation’s aristocracy, who own also the news-media etc.) defend them, and you want the US
military (the taxpayers and the troops) to support and defend them. It’s defending your market, even though
you as the controlling owner of such a corporation aren’t paying the tab for it. The rest of the country is
actually paying for all of it, so you’re “free-riding” the public, in this business. It’s the unique nature
of the war-business, and a unique boon to its investors.
Thus, on 21 May 2017, US President Donald Trump sold to the Saud
family, who own Saudi Arabia, an all-time-record $350 billion of US arms-makers’
products, which they’re now obligated to buy
during the following ten years, with an up-front commitment of $100 billion during just the first year, so as to
make even that one-year commitment an all-time record. This deal is by far the biggest part of Trump’s boost to
American manufacturers — but it’s only to military manufacturers, the people who depend virtually 100% on sales to
governments, specifically to ‘friendly’ governments: to ‘allies’, such as, in this case, to the Saud
family.
In fact, the Sauds’ war against their neighbor Yemen is a good
example of just how this sort of operation (profit to the billionaires, bloodshed and destruction to — in
this case — the Yemenites) works:
——
Yemen’s war goes back to the “Arab Spring” revolution in Yemen, which
overthrew the US-and-Saud-backed President, former Colonel and then General,
Saleh. Wikipedia says of him:
“According to the UN Sanctions Panel, by 2012 Saleh has amassed fortune worth $32-60 billion hidden in at least
twenty countries making him one of the richest people in the world. Saleh was gaining $2 billion a year from
1978 to 2012 mainly through illegal methods, such
as embezzlement, extortion and theft of funds from Yemen's
fuel subsidy program.[75][76][77]” And, furthermore: “New York Times Middle Eastern
correspondent Robert F. Worth described Saleh as reaching an understanding with powerful feudal ‘big
sheikhs’ to become ‘part of a Mafia-style spoils system that substituted for governance’.[18] Worth accused
Saleh of exceeding the aggrandizement of other Middle Eastern strongmen by managing to ‘rake off tens of
billions of dollars in public funds for himself and his family’ despite the extreme poverty of his country.[19]”
Saleh fled to Saudi Arabia. Yemen’s Army installed the Vice President, and former General, Hadi to succeed him.
Then, there was a second revolution, and, on 21 January 2015, the Shia Houthi tribe took over, and the rabidly anti-Shia Saud family promptly started their bombing of Yemen, using
American training, weaponry and tactical and refueling support. The US Government
— like its ally the Saud family — is rabidly
anti-Shia. That’s to say: The
US aristocracy, like
Saudi Arabia’s aristocracy (the royal family), is rabidly anti-Shia. But, whereas for the Sauds, this is
motivated more by hate than by greed, it’s more greed than hate on the US side, because at least ever since
the US coup in the leading Shia country, Iran, in 1953, it’s been purely about greed, specifically that of
the oil (and other) companies who also (in addition to the armaments-firms) control US foreign policies. (For
example, international oil companies need to extract and sell oil from many countries. They’re highly
dependent upon the military, though not nearly to the extent that the weapons-firms
are.)
The most recent poll that has been taken of American public opinion
regarding America’s arming and training Saudi forces to fly over and bomb Yemen was taken during November
2017, tabulated on 28 January 2018, and finally published a month later, on 28 February 2018.
This “Nationwide Voter Survey - Report on Results - January 28,
2018” asked 1,000 scientifically sampled
American voters, “Question: Congress is considering a bi-partisan bill to withdraw US forces from the Saudi-led war
in Yemen. Would you say that you support or oppose this bill?” It reported that, “Support” was 51.9%, “Oppose” was
21.5%, no opinion was 26.6%; and, so, 71% of the opinions were “Support”; only 29% were “Oppose.” That’s more than
two-thirds supporting this bill to consider withdrawing US forces from that war. But, when the vote was taken in
the US Senate, it was 55% opposing the bill, opposing, that is, consideration of the matter, and 44% supporting
consideration of the matter (and not voting was 1% of the 100 Senators). 55% of Senators didn’t want the Senate to
even consider the matter. Here’s how the issue had managed to get even that
far:
On 4 December 2017, just weeks after that poll of Americans was
taken, Russian Television headlined “Saleh’s death means a fresh hell beckons for
Yemen”, and the US Government’s
participation in the bombing of Yemen then did increase. This event — the murder of Saleh — raised the Yemen
war to broader public attention in the country that was supplying the bombs and the weapons to the
Sauds.
On 28 February 2018, US Senator Bernie Sanders was the lone sponsor
of “S.J.Res.54 — 115th Congress
(2017-2018)”: “This joint resolution
directs the President to remove US Armed Forces from hostilities in or affecting Yemen, except those engaged
in operations directed at Al Qaeda, within 30 days unless: (1) the President requests and Congress authorizes
a later date, or (2) a declaration of war or specific authorization for the use of the Armed Forces has been
enacted.”
On March 19th, NBC bannered “Senators to force vote to redefine US role in
Yemen” — that was merely to force a
vote in the Senate, not actually to vote on the issue
itself. However, given how overwhelmingly America’s voters opposed
America’s arming the Sauds to slaughter the Yemenese, this vote in the Senate to consider the measure was the
gateway to each Senator’s being forced to go public about supporting this highly unpopular armament of the
Saudis; and, so, if it had gotten that far (to a final vote on the issue itself), the arms-makers might lose the
vote, because Senators would then be voting not ‘merely’ on a procedural matter, but on the actual issue itself.
So, this vote was about the gateway, not about the destination.
The next day, Breitbart News headlined “Administration, Bipartisan Interventionist Establishment Kill
Aisle-Crossing Effort to Rein In US Military Involvement in Yemen” and presented a full and documented account, which opened: “The
Senate resolution invoking the War Powers Act to demand the administration seek congressional authorization or
withdraw American support from Saudi Arabia’s military operations in Yemen was defeated Tuesday by a vote of
55-44.” The peace-activist, David Swanson, headlined at Washingtonsblog, “Why 55 US Senators Voted for Genocide in
Yemen”, and he alleged that the vote would
have been even more lopsided than 55% for the weapons-industry, if some of the Senators who voted among the 44
non-bloodthirsty ones hadn’t been in such close political races. The weapons-industry won’t hold against a
Senator his/her voting against them if their vote won’t even be needed in order to win. Token-votes against them
are acceptable. All that’s necessary is winning the minimum number of votes. Anything more than that is just
icing on the cake.
So, this explains how the US Government really ignores public opinion and only pretends to be a
democracy. It’s done by fooling the public.
On the issue of which countries are ‘allies’ and which are ‘enemies’, and other issues regarding national
defense, all necessary means are applied in order to achieve, as Walter Lippmann in 1921 called it, “the
manufacture of consent.” He wrote:
That the manufacture of consent is capable of great refinements no one, I
think, denies. The process by which public opinions arise is certainly no less intricate than it has appeared in
these pages, and the opportunities for manipulation open to anyone who understands the process are plain enough.
The creation of consent is not a new art. It is a very old one which was supposed to have died out with the
appearance of democracy. But it has not died out. It has, in fact, improved enormously in technic, because it is
now based on analysis rather than on rule of thumb. And so, as a result of psychological research, coupled with the
modern means of communication, the practice of democracy has turned a corner. A revolution is taking place,
infinitely more significant than any shifting of economic power.
PROTESTERS Clash With Police Over THAAD DEPLOYMENT In
S.KOREA
Trump boasts he refurbished the aging nuclear arsenal
Trump to allow South Korea, Japan to buy more U.S. military
equipment
Dozens of protesters were injured in clashes with police as hundreds went out to
protest the installation of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system in the South
Korean province of Gyeongsangbuk. Despite the protests, four additional interceptor launchers
arrived at the base early Thursday, several hours after police quashed the unrest. The launchers
were transported to the site by some 10 US military vehicles from the Osan Air Base near Seoul.
Credits: 1. NHK World 2. CGTN 3. RT (Russian Tv) 4. The Wall Street Journal
America's nuclear arsenal stands only second to Russia in overall inventory with
6,800 warheads; Kevin Corke explains on 'Special Report'
President Trump has announced that the United States is ready to sell high-tech
military gear to South Korea and Japan to help them better deal with North Korea's threats. Just a
matter of days after North Korea claimed it had successfully tested a hydrogen bomb,... President
Trump took to Twitter to say that he's allowing Seoul and Tokyo to buy a substantially increased
amount of highly sophisticated military equipment from Washington. Although he did not elaborate on
the kind of weaponry and equipment,... the White House said President Trump is willing to approve
the sale of military weapons and equipment worth many billions of dollars to Seoul. Visit ‘Arirang
News’ Official Page
TomDispatch Interview with author, Nick Turse
TheNationInstitute
Published on Mar 18, 2008
Editor of TomDispatch, Tom Engelhardt, interviews Nick Turse, TD contributor and
author of the new book "The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives."
A mind-boggling investigation of the allpervasive, constantly morphing presence of
the Pentagon in daily life--a real-world Matrix come alive. Here is the new, hip, high-tech
military-industrial complex--an omnipresent, hidden-in-plain-sight system of systems that
penetrates all our lives. From iPods to Starbucks to Oakley sunglasses, historian Nick Turse
explores the Pentagon's little-noticed contacts (and contracts) with the products and companies
that now form the fabric of America. Turse investigates the remarkable range of military incursions
into the civilian world: the Pentagon's collaborations with Hollywood filmmakers; its outlandish
schemes to weaponize the wild kingdom; its joint ventures with the World Wrestling Federation and
NASCAR. He shows the inventive ways the military, desperate for new recruits, now targets children
and young adults, tapping into the "culture of cool" by making "friends" on MySpace.
A striking vision of this brave new world of remote-controlled rats and super-soldiers who need no
sleep, The Complex will change our understanding of the militarization of America. We are a long
way from Eisenhower's military-industrial complex: this is the essential book for understanding its
twenty-first-century progeny.
Black Ops 2 Militainment
"Documentary" Promotion Tied To Real War Killing, Exploits Tragedy As Fun
disposable culture
Published on Aug 23, 2012
Reversals and the Drone War
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is slated to come out in November. A not-so-futuristic story about drone
warfare frames the game. In this world, the principle concern is that "the enemy" will hack into
the
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
In his exhaustively researched first book concerning the extent to which the
"military industrial complex" has infiltrated the life of the average American, journalist Turse
starts off by documenting how many times supposedly innocent consumer choices support major
Pentagon contractors then covers similar ground in greater detail. Turse has up-to-date information
on a previously well-covered subject and casts a wide net, including the movie industry, video
gaming and military recruitment tactics in his analysis. Many of Turse's facts are purely economic,
but some of them are astonishing. Who knew, for example, that in 2005, the Department of Defense
spent $1.2 million on donuts in Kuwait? Or that Harvard received over $300 million in DoD funds in
2002, after being pressured, despite concerns about discrimination, to allow military recruiters
access to its law school students? Though Turse offers plenty of interesting information,
ultimately this book would have been more convincing if, instead of simply amassing and condensing
such information, he had built a stronger argument about what it all means.
“This is a deeply disturbing audit of the Pentagon’s influence on American life,
especially its subtle conscription of popular imagination and entertainment technology. If Nick
Turse is right, the ‘Matrix’ may be just around the corner.”—Mike Davis, author of Buda's Wagon: A
Brief History of the Car Bomb
“When President Eisenhower warned of the dangers to democracy posed by the
military-industrial complex, he had no idea how far it would penetrate into every aspect of our
everyday lives. In impressive detail, Nick Turse shows how the military is now tied to everything
from your morning cup of Starbucks to the video games your kids play before turning in for the
night. It's not just political anymore—it’s personal. Turse sounds the alarm bell about the
militarization of everyday life. Now it’s up to us to do something about it.”—Bill Hartung, author
of How Much Are You Making on the War Daddy?
“Nick Turse’s searing, investigative journalism reveals just how deeply embedded in
our lives the war-making system is and why we should be viscerally alarmed. He exposes how, with a
growing contingent of
corporate/entertainment/academic/media collaborators, the Pentagon has not only garrisoned the
globe, but come home to dominate the United States. For anyone interested in understanding the
crisis this country is in, The Complex is indispensable reading.”—Dahr Jamail, author of Beyond the
Green Zone
“Americans who still think they can free themselves from the clutches of the
military-industrial complex need to read this book. For example, the gimmicks the Pentagon uses to
deceive, entrap, and sign up gullible 18 to 24 year-olds are anything but voluntary. Nick Turse has
produced a brilliant exposé of the Pentagon’s pervasive influence in our lives.”—Chalmers Johnson,
author of Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic
The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday, Author Nick Turse On
Antiwar Radio
disposable culture
Published on Jul 26, 2012
http://antiwar.com/radio/
Nick Turse is an award-winning journalist, historian, essayist, and the associate editor of the
Nation Institute's Tomdispatch.com., author of The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday
Lives, discusses how today's military-industrial complex far exceeds the one Eisenhower warned of,
the Pentagon's influence in Hollywood that often includes vetting rights on movie scripts in
exchange for access to taxpayer funded weapons of war, the early-and-often bombardment of young
people with military propaganda, why far too many businesses and workers are reliant on Pentagon
spending and the five jaw-dropping and under-reported WikiLeaks stories.
Luke 3:14
And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do
violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.
2 John 1:
10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house,
neither bid him God speed:
11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
Psalm 12:8
The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
Militainment, Inc.
Militarism & Video Games
disposable culture
Published on Mar 17, 2011
[Extensive Notes and Links. Please click on YouTube button to access]
"What do I think this is going to lead to? Well, now this is going to give Trump the excuse for
not leaving Syria in spite of the fact that most of ISIS has been relegated to pockets in the desert and there is
no reason for the US troops to be there. In fact two of them were killed recently, so now this chemical attack is
going to provide the perfect excuse to stay in Syria for longer. Is it going to lead to a wider regional
war?…Possibly. Anything can happen at this point because it’s very easy to spark a world war if Russia feels that
it’s being threatened it might attack.
…Well basically the way you have to see it is that France, Turkey, and the US are a bunch of
vultures that are trying to pick off the corpse of what they believe to be a dead Syria. They are trying to
basically divide the areas of control. France had its eyes on Manbij and turkey has its eyes on Manbij, cause they
have this deal they want to make with the US that only everything east of the Euphrates belongs to their Kurdish
proxies, and everything west of the Euphrates in the north of Syria is supposed to belong to Turkey. And France is
kind of trying to carve out its own chunk. Of course at the end of the day Syria is alive. The military is strong.
And the Syrian president has said that the entirety of Syria is going to be liberated.
So the idea that any of those forces are going to stay and takeover a piece of Syria is a pipe
dream. And it will lead to death and WAR and destruction. Already two US troops have been killed…this is sadly you
know only the beginning and for what reason?…For Syrian oil? The US has plenty of oil. It’s not about wanting more
oil. It’s about making sure that Syria can’t control and use its oil to rebuild because that’s going to threaten
Israel. At the end of the day, this is really just about Israel, and protecting Israeli interests."
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The Naked Zionist
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4. Isis Plots Christmas Attack in US/UN moves Against Israel. Published on YouTube: The Alex
Jones Channel, Dec 24, 2016.
5. Alex Jones Talks About Why He Supports Israel. Published on YouTube: The Alex Jones Channel, May 14,
2018.
“What would happen if the Jews pulled out of Israel today and left? Within a year there’d be nothing but
people murdering and killing each other and blowing each other up and fighting, because that’s what the middle east
does. You don’t build stuff; you don’t develop things; you don’t have a culture that’s based on renaissance; it’s
all based on conquest. And you’ll just start saying, You’re not as Shiite as I am, or you’re not as Sunni as I am,
and killing and blowing each other up in five minutes. That’s all I’m saying, for God sakes.” Alex Jones,
ISIS Plots Christmas Attack in US / UN Moves Against Israel, The Alex Jones Channel Published on Dec 24,
2016
ISRAEL & PALESTINE Lookintoit.org Disclaimer: The information posted is for
educational purposes, and as with all videos and articles on this site, doesn't necessarily constitute an
endorsement of all an author's views and opinions.
ISIS Plots Christmas Attack in US / UN Moves Against
Israel
The Alex Jones Channel
Published on Dec 24, 2016
Globalists Move Against Netanyahu in Preperation Against Trump
Takedown
The Alex Jones Channel
Published on Jan 2, 2017
Alex Jones Talks About Why He Supports Israel
The Alex Jones Channel
Published on May 14, 2018
Alex Jones breaks down why he politically supports Israel in the midst of the
new conflict breaking out across the middle east between Israel, Syria, Iran, Russia, and the
United States.
Alex Jones Exposed as a Zionist Apologist AGAIN!
Know More News
Streamed live Jul 11, 2018
Know More News with Adam Green
With Trump elected the temporary hold on smacking Jones is over. Plus Alex went
full cuck mode for Israel. He said the Middle East other than the Jews, have no culture and
can't build anything. That they only know destruction. Funny because Europe colonized over half
the planet and started both world wars.
Alex Zionist Jones woodshed IV prayer for Netanyahu
How are Palestinians reacting to the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem and
violence in Gaza?
CBS News
Published on May 14, 2018
Noura Erakat, a human rights attorney and assistant professor at George Mason
University, discusses the Palestinian reaction to the U.S. embassy opening in Jerusalem and
examines the influence of Hamas on Palestinians in Gaza.
GREATER ISRAEL - The Infamous Oded Yinon Plan -
Greater Israel (Oded Yinon Plan) - Zionist Plan To Expand Israel's Borders And
Balkanize The Nations Surrounding It.
Featuring:
Cynthia McKinney
Ken O'Keefe
Mimi al-Laham aka Syrian Girl
Norman Finkelstein
War is a Racket by Smedley Butler is a famous speech denouncing the military industrial complex.
This speech by two-time Congressional Medal of Honor recipient exposes war profits that benefit few at the expense
of many. Throughout his distinguished career in the Marines, Smedley Darlington Butler demonstrated that true
patriotism does not mean blind allegiance to government policies with which one does not agree. To Hell with
war.
Why We Fight
Eugene Jarecki’s Why We Fight is an unflinching look at the anatomy of the American war machine,
weaving unforgettable personal stories with commentary by a “who’s who” of military and beltway insiders. Featuring
John McCain, Gore Vidal, William Kristol, Chalmers Johnson, Richard Perle and others, ‘WHY WE FIGHT’ launches a
bipartisan inquiry into the workings of the military industrial complex and the rise of the American Empire.
Why does the US have 800 military bases
around the world?
David Vine: American Bases Around The World
Striking Example of How The US Is Enslaved To The Military Industrial
Complex
The US has about 800 military bases in other countries, according to David Vine in
his forthcoming book Base Nation. And it costs a lot of money to keep them open. Why are they there
in the first place?
Chalmers Johnson : The Sorrows of
Empire
Published on Nov 22, 2010
Interview with Chalmers Johnson author of "The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism,
Secrecy, and the End of the Republic" given February 12, 2004 in Seattle.
americanempireproject.com
David Vine is the author of the landmark book, Base Nation, on US military bases
around the world. This is an eye-opening, factual account based on years of research. David
explains how these bases do not serve America's security or best interests, rather they anger and
cause many in these occupied countries to rise up and demand that America go home. He also points
out how the costs to maintain these bases along with hundreds of thousands of US troops and their
families is causing our needs at home to be neglected.
Trump says the F-35 is too expensive and he's not wrong. But this is what he's up
against.
The Bases Are Loaded: US Permanent Military Presence in Iraq
Published on Jun 20, 2007
Will the U.S. ever leave Iraq? Official policy promises an eventual departure,
while warning of the dire consequences of a "premature" withdrawal. But while Washington
equivocates, facts on the ground tell another story. Independent journalist Dahr Jamail, and author
Chalmers Johnson, are discovering that military bases in Iraq are being consolidated from over a
hundred to a handful of "megabases" with lavish amenities. Much of what is taking place is obscured
by denials and quibbles over the definition of "permanent." The Bases Are Loaded covers a wide
range of topics. Gary Hart, James Goldsborough, Nadia Keilani, Raed Jarrar, Bruce Finley Kam
Zarrabi and Mark Rudd all add their observations about the extent and purpose of the bases in
Iraq.
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SOME BACKGROUND
CONTEXT
Addicted to War: Why the U.S. Can't Kick Militarism
In this video, Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange interviews former Congressman Dennis
Kucinich. They discuss redistricting and how it negatively affected his seat in the Cleveland area.
They also discuss the Military Industrial Conflict and the United States
addiction to war.
Dennis Kucinich
Tells Jesse Ventura
"This Is A Racket! A Way For People Who Make Arms To Cash
In!"
The Middle Blitz
Published on Nov 24, 2017
The problem today we have in Washington is that both political parties have converged
with the military-industrial complex, fulfilling President
Eisenhower’s nightmare and setting America on a path toward destruction.
Rescuing America from a future “cataclysmic war,” Kucinich argues,
requires that Americans both “realize that our position in the world was never, ever meant to be a
cop on the beat, a global cop,” and“challenge this two-party
duopoly that’s committed to war.”
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"Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed
and establishes a town by injustice!"
What happens when you cross aNeocon organization like PNAC (Project for the New
American Century), war politics, the Carlyle Group and very evil men?
Winner, Best Animation at the Brooklyn International Film and the Portabello Film
Festival...and rightly so!
Why Terrorism Will Never Stop
NEW YORK: WHAT THEY ARE NOT TELLING YOU
WeAreChange
Published on Nov 1, 2017
In this video, Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange gives you the latest breaking news on
the events in New York NYC with reactions from U.S President Donald Trump, U.S. Senator Chuck
Schumer and the general left-right paradigm.
Eugene Jarecki is an award-winning dramatic and documentary filmmaker whose
previous film WHY WE FIGHT won the 2005 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. THE TRIALS
OF HENRY KISSINGER, won the 2002 Amnesty International Award. In addition to his work in film,
Jarecki is also the Founder and Executive Director of The Eisenhower Project, an academic public
policy group, dedicated in the spirit of Dwight D. Eisenhower, to studying the forces that shape
American foreign policy.
Eugene Jarecki: We won't leave Iraq as long as oil is the 'life blood' of our
global dominance
War:
Big Government's Best Friend
TomWoodsTV
Published on Mar 2, 2012
Bestselling author Tom Woods speaks at the Mises Institute's seminar at Furman
University, "War: Big Government's Best Friend." Sponsored by the Conservative Students for a
Better Tomorrow. www.TomWoods.com furmancsbt.org/default.aspx
Conservatism and War
A great many books and articles on the moral and strategic imperative of
nonintervention have been written; my aim here is simply to introduce the reader to some of the
key ideas.
Daniel P. McCarthy, editor of The American Conservative magazine, gives a good overview of
the correct conservative foreign policy in this extended interview (part one deals primarily
with domestic issues):
Tom Woods: Conservatives and War
AStarSpangledGrl SanDiego
Published on Nov 23, 2011
DON'T BE A PAWN IN THEIR NWO
GAME
UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON - RESEARCH
:
USMC MAJOR GENERAL SMEDLEY
BUTLER
Troops Protect Government Drug
Dealing!
The US military is in Afghanistan for two reasons. First to restore and
control the world’s largest supply of opium for the world heroin markets and to use the drugs as a geopolitical
weapon against opponents, especially Russia. That control of the Afghan drug market is essential for the liquidity
of the bankrupt and corrupt Wall Street financial mafia. ...The second reason the US military remains in
Afghanistan long after the world has forgotten even who the mysterious Osama bin Laden and his alleged Al Qaeda terrorist organization is or even if they exist, is as a pretext to
build a permanent US military strike force with a series of
permanent US airbases across Afghanistan. The aim of those bases is not to eradicate any Al Qaeda cells that may have survived in the caves of Tora Bora,
or to eradicate a mythical “Taliban” which at this point according to eyewitness
reports is made up overwhelmingly of local ordinary Afghanis fighting to rid their land once more of occupier
armies as they did in the 1980’s against the Russians.
What You Are Not Being Told About the Afghanistan
War
15 years after NATO's invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, the 9/11 and Al Qaeda
lies that were used to justify the war have disappeared. Now the truth about oil and gas, mineral
wealth, opium and naked imperial ambition are all that remain.
NOTE: This video was produced for BoilingFrogsPost.com on October 14, 2011. It is
being made available in its entirety here for the first time.
Just as the British Empire was in part financed by their control of the opium trade
through the British East India Company, so too has the CIA been found time after time to be at the
heart of the modern international drug trade. (Continued Below)
15 years later, the US and its NATO allies still have troops in Afghanistan with no
plans on leaving. We were told this was about 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden, but these were lies. So why
are the troops still there? What was the war in Afghanistan really about? Michel Chossudovsky of
the Centre for Research on Globalization joins us to explain.
(Continued)The CIA & the Drug Trade
...From its very inception, the CIA has been embroiled in the murky underworld of drug trafficking. There are
billions of dollars per year to be made in keeping the drug trade going, and it has long been established that Wall
Street and the major American banks rely on drug money as a ready source of liquid capital. With those kinds of
funds at stake, it is unsurprising to see a media-government-banking nexus develop around the status quo of a
never-ending war on drugs - aided, abetted and facilitated by the modern-day British East India Company, the
CIA.
This is our EyeOpener Report by James Corbett presenting the history, documented facts, and cases
on the CIA’s involvement and operations in the underworld of drug trafficking, from the Corsican Mafia in the 1940s
through the 1980s Contras to the recent Zambada Niebla Case today.
Ever since its inception there have been those who have
warned that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, far from offering a simple "collective security" pact to ensure
the integrity of its member nations' borders, would in fact be used as an offensive tool of imperial adventurism
and conquest. Since the NATO-led Kosovo bombing campaign of 1999 at the very least, those fears have appeared more
and more justified.
Since that time, NATO has continued to take a lead role in more and more overtly
offensive campaigns of aggression in theatre after theatre. By now it is commonly understood to be an extension of
the Pentagon itself, a convenient international military instrument for Washington to wield whenever the pretense
of an international consensus cannot be achieved at the UN Security Council.
-- James Corbett
NATO is the first attempt in history to establish an aggressive
global military formation, one which currently includes a third of the nations of the world either as members or
partners, has members and partners on five continents and has conducted active operations on four, with the
potential to expand its reach into the remaining two where it has not yet officially intruded
itself...As NATO continues to expand across the globe
through a series of partnerships, initiatives and dialogues, what was once a collective security agreement is
increasingly becoming a global military strike force capable of bombarding, invading and occupying countries
anywhere in the world.
lookintoit.org
To prove that to me, it would take him reporting about the
provocative US military drills on North Korea's border - which could actually start a world
war — with at least a fraction of the coverage he gave one US military drill in Texas and a
few other states called: 
On top of this, instead of holding Trump
accountable to his sworn allegiance to the 
Arleigh Burke chair in strategy at the Centre for Strategic and International
Studies. “Oil exports were almost the only Iraqi source of money. So you would have to pay for government
salaries, maintain the army, and you have triggered a level of national animosity far worse than we did. It
would be the worst kind of neo-colonialism. Not even Britain did that.” 
This is part of our series on the unaccounted for $21 Trillion
in taxpayer money. As unbelievable and absurd as that sounds, the actual total of unaccounted for money at
the Pentagon is most likely significantly more than $21 trillion. The First ever “full-scope audit” of the
Pentagon is presently underway. Read the first report from 
