“What might be surprising is just how dependent some companies are on government spending for their existence.”
“In 1935, USMC Major General Smedley Butler warned the world that ‘War is a racket. It always has been…'”
Read more: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-22/perpetual-war-explained-140-seconds
“The whole thing shows you that wars can be caused by groups that you and I are not aware exist and that strings are being pulled by people behind the scenes. And wars can be avoided, I think, by honesty and transparency.”
Read more: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/07/no_author/hidden-history-of-ww1-2/
“Are we to believe that the same institution that so recklessly hawks military weaponry to hostile actors is so sincerely concerned with protecting America’s national-defense capabilities that we can trust it to restrict, for reasons of national security, our freedom to trade?”
“If any other government department spent as much and accomplished as little, the populace would be in arms.”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/war-doesnt-make-sense-anymore/
“There are few bipartisan projects in Congress these days, but Republicans and Democrats have no trouble joining together to feed more money into the Pentagon’s gaping maw.”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2018/06/21/ndaa-spending-pentagon-budget-senate
“The government of Sweden has reinstated the military draft and sent a war propaganda brochure to all Swedes promoting fear, Russophobia, and warlike thinking.”
Read more: http://davidswanson.org/swedens-military-madness/
“As the Saudis attack the Yemeni port town of Hodeidah, the stated goal is to starve the residents into opposing the Houthi forces controlling the city. The US is actively participating in what is clearly a war crime against civilians. Why?”
“Despite condemnations from China, the US continues to sell advanced weapons to the island under the Taiwan Relations Act for its self-defense against a much bigger Chinese military.”
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/12/asia/us-taiwan-de-facto-embassy-china-intl/index.html
“Police might be tracking a lot more than we even know on our phones, often without the warrants that are usually needed for comparable methods of invasive surveillance.”
Read more: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/06/03/cyrus-farivar-book-excerpt-stingray-218588