The U.S. War Addiction: Funding Enemies to Maintain Trillion Dollar Racket

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The U.S. War Addiction: Funding Enemies to Maintain Trillion Dollar Racket
Four ways to see the true drivers of current wars around the world.
June 16, 2010 |




Editor's Note: With so many problems in the USA, it's no easy job to single out a handful of the most important, priority issues. But the enormous pile of wasted money spent on wars and the military-industrial complex has to be right at the top. Not only is the money spent an enormous destructive waste, but there's also the question of opportunity cost; just a fraction of war money could make major improvements to health care, schools and universities, and our decaying public infrastructure. The release of the Pentagon's Quadrennal Defense Review indicates that Obama intends to spend even more on war. David DeGraw's article below sheds some light on the madness of war spending and the serious attempts made by the racketeers to make our wars self-perpetuating to keep the cash rolling in; infuriating as it is sickening.

http://www.alternet.org/news/147217/the_u.s._war_addiction%3A_funding_enemies_to_maintain_trillion_dollar_racket/

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