Light Cast Into The Shadows From An Insider
Another great article from a financial industry insider, Ann Berg. Courtesy of the Information Clearing House.
Please read the rest of the article at ICH. Also, take note of Ann Berg's credits. She is no outsider or extremist.
"The Power Elite", by Mills, is an outstanding read as well.
Bottom line, none of what is going on today is new. This has all been setup for decades, we were just too fat and happy to notice.
Now that the Elites have globalized their assets, they no longer need the US economy to sustain them. We may indeed be at the final stage of our economic imperialism, with financial ruin in the west just around the corner.
Or, we could just keep killing people and stealing their wealth.
I'm not comfortable with that, I have too many friends from those countries that we would potentially attack, just so we can prop up our economy.
The Republicans and Democrats must go. They have no shame and no respect for the Constitutional Republic.
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Crackpot Realists and Permanent War
By Ann Berg
08/28/07 "Antiwar" -- -- While economic pundits point fingers at loose lending for the malodor in the housing market that is now filling the noses of financiers, they miss the primary cause: permanent war. Permanent war has caused the nation's institutions – political, social, and economic – to be organized into an impervious structure without which war could not be tolerated or financed.
Although 9/11 pushed the war machine into high gear, political centralization and the structuring of American society around war first gained a foothold during World War II. In 1956, five years before President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned in his farewell address of the ascendancy of the military-industrial complex (a phrase that originally included the word congressional), the anti-imperialist C. Wright Mills described the triad of power in his book The Power Elite. Stressing how the military entered the political and economic spheres only temporarily during the First World War, he related how modern warfare and its need for massive industrial capacity – along with support from the technological and scientific communities – propelled the military to new heights of influence. Wrote Mills:
"For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end. … The only seriously accepted plan for 'peace' is a fully loaded pistol. In short, war or a high state of war preparedness is felt to be the normal and seemingly permanent condition of the United States."
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Please read the rest of the article at ICH. Also, take note of Ann Berg's credits. She is no outsider or extremist.
"The Power Elite", by Mills, is an outstanding read as well.
Bottom line, none of what is going on today is new. This has all been setup for decades, we were just too fat and happy to notice.
Now that the Elites have globalized their assets, they no longer need the US economy to sustain them. We may indeed be at the final stage of our economic imperialism, with financial ruin in the west just around the corner.
Or, we could just keep killing people and stealing their wealth.
I'm not comfortable with that, I have too many friends from those countries that we would potentially attack, just so we can prop up our economy.
The Republicans and Democrats must go. They have no shame and no respect for the Constitutional Republic.
Labels: Buying the War, corruption, military-industrial complex, neocons, neoliberalism
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8/28/2007
