On January 5, JP joined Scott Horton to discuss his Truthout article on the role military spending plays as a de facto jobs program. LISTEN HERE On January 12, JP joined Project Censored’s Mickey Huff to talk about the willful … and profitable … blindness to stories other than the daily melodrama of Russiagate….
The US economy is caught in a trap. That trap is the Department of Defense: an increasingly sticky wicket that relies on an annual, trillion-dollar redistribution of government-collected wealth. In fact, it’s the biggest “big government” program on the planet, easily beating out China’s People’s Liberation Army in both size and cost. It is not only the…
Who says nothing is made in the USA anymore? Certainly not the well-heeled denizens of the State Department’s diplomatic corps. And they should know. That’s because they’re stationed on the frontlines of the ongoing battle to preserve Uncle Sam’s dominant market share of the global weapons trade. Luckily for the Military-Industrial Complex, it turns out…
There’s no sequester on campaign donations!
This nation has been run by a powerful gun lobby for the last sixty years, and it isn’t the NRA.