2021 Photos\TransferPics 0001_175_99999aaaaaGOVsn4
“William Hartung On US Defense Spending”
Quote:
In his recent article, “What Price “Defense”? – America’s Costly, Dysfunctional Approach to Security Is Making Us Ever Less Safe”, William Hartung writes, “Forging a more sensible American defense strategy will, in the end, require progress on two fronts. First, the myth that the quest for total global military dominance best serves the interests of the American people needs to be punctured. Second, the stranglehold of the Pentagon and its corporate allies on the budget process needs to be loosened in some significant fashion.”
Leading Pentagon spending and arms industry critic Bill Hartung joins the show to talk about his article and how the American public’s view of safety needs to change.
William D. Hartung is a senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He was previously the director of the Arms and Security Program at the Center for International Policy and the co-director of the Center’s Sustainable Defense Task Force. He is the author of Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex and the co-editor, with Miriam Pemberton, of Lessons from Iraq: Avoiding the Next War.”
*
“Prophets of War
Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex”
Quote: “Prophets of War is an expos’ of America’s largest military contractor, Lockheed Martin. When President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his famous warning about the dangers of the military industrial complex, he never would have dreamed that a company could accumulate the kind of power and influence now wielded by this behemoth company.
As a full-service weapons maker, Lockheed Martin receives over 25 billion per year in Pentagon contracts. From aircraft and munitions, to the abysmal Star Wars missile defense program, to the spy satellites that the NSA has used to monitor Americans’ phone calls without their knowledge, Lockheed Martin’s reaches into all areas of US defense and American life.
*
“William Hartung, Going Down the Military Drain”
*
Luxury Lefty Thom Hartmann had this to say:
"We’re the only developed country in the world that unconditionally allows civilians to own military-style assault weapons, that allows 'open carry,' that lets gun manufacturers openly buy politicians (thanks, SCOTUS). As a consequence, we’re also the only country in the world where the leading cause of death for children is being blown apart by bullets. America has just a bit more than 4 percent of the world’s population, but, with more guns than people in our country, we have more than 40 percent of all the civilian guns in the world."
“America Is Number 1 in Gun Ownership and Gun Deaths. It’s Time To Wake the Hell Up.”
[by luxury lefty I mean doesn’t get to upset by how democrats repeatedly fail working americans because such failure do not effect him. He can afford to be uncritical of Democrats]
Comments