New World Notes - Bruce Gagnon: Perpetual War for Perpetual Profit, Part 2

This week on New World Notes: radio program #185, September 20, from 12:00 to 12:30 PM, host Kenneth Dowst presents the conclusion of 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.

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.

This week's installment focuses on:

• the country's increasing corporatism and militarism under Obama and the Democratic Party
• the miltary's strategy of controlling economic competitors' access to the earth's declining natural resources
• grandiose plans to dominate the earth by controlling space
• the sane alternative of spending money on infrastructure--and on stopping global warming--instead of on endless war; and
• concrete steps people can take to change the country's direction

The installment includes two questions--and Bruce's very interesting responses--from the Q&A.