First of two parts. Antiwar and antinuke activist Bruce Gagnon argues brilliantly that the main purpose of US wars is to enrich the military-industrial complex and the rest of the oligarchy.
And the techniques remain the same, generation after generation. The same lies, U.S. atrocities against civilans, & false demonization of "enemy" leaders--from Muammar Gaddafi to Saddam Hussein, ... back at least as far as Crazy Horse in the 1870s. (Continued under "Notes.")
Recorded live by me in Wethersfield, CT, on August 20, 2011.
Bruce Gagnon on the Web: www.space4peace.org
"New World Notes" is produced under the auspices (Latin for "aegis") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.
Gagnon's history of the U.S. campaign against Crazy Horse is an eye-opener.
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. (Defend the United States nation against attack? How quaint!)
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