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New World Notes - Bruce Gagnon: Perpetual War for Perpetual Profit
This week on New World Notes: radio program #184, September 13, from 12:00 to 12:30 PM, host Kenneth Dowst presents excerpts from a recent talk given in CT by antiwar and antinuke activist Bruce Gagnon. Bruce argues brilliantly that the main purpose of US wars is to enrich the military-industrial complex and the rest of the oligarchy.
The techniques have remained the same, generation after generation: the same lies, the same U.S. atrocities against civilans, the same false demonization of "enemy" leaders--from Muammar Gaddafi to Saddam Hussein, back at least as far as Crazy Horse in the 1870s. It was all lies, but military procurements rose in response, and war industry profits went back up.
There's more, including the insanity of sending plutonium into space, of mining on other planets, and of planning to control--militarily--the solar system. Then there's the U.S. military's explicit acknowledgement (in case there was any doubt in your mind) that their purpose is to advance the interests of the plutocrats that control the transnational corporate capitalist stystem.