by Peter A. Belmont / 2011-02-01

Recent Essays (All Topics)

• "Citizens United" creates a new permanent aristocracy in the USA

•Dear liberal American Jews: Please don't betray Israel

•The "1%" is really the "0.0000063%"

•Israel Firsters, Oil Firsters, Banks Firsters, War Firsters are all part of the American Oligarchic System

•Drop the insult "Israel-Firster" for the more important "One-Percent-Firster"

•Israel/Palestine was clearly heading to 2012 in 1994

•Time for a New American Revolution

•Time for the USA to be reality-based rather than faith-based.

•Iran believes it can cut off OIL sales to EU

•Constitutional Amendment to combat "regulatory capture", "electoral capture", and Citizens United

The USA spends more on its military/intelligence apparatus, both government employees and contractors (i.e., mercenaries, war-profiteers, privatizeers) each year than all other countries combined. Everyone says so. I believe it.

And yet we are losing two wars (Iraq and Afghanistan) and lost another (Vietnam) not long ago. Just considering the military side of this colossus, are we getting our money’s worth?

And then, in January of 2011, within no time at all, first Tunisia and then Egypt have had pro-democracy revolutions. And by all that anyone can see, the US Department of State had no warning. Our president was caught flat-footed.

Just considering the intelligence (or, as I prefer, the “intelligence”) side of this colossus, are we getting our money’s worth?

Maybe we in the good ole US of A should have a small democratic revolution in which we dismiss the

Military-Intelligence-Mercenary-Industrial-Congressional-University-Think-Tank-Privatizeer Complex

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