Department of Defense
Pentagon’s Media Meddling Under Investigation
The FCC is finally going to look into a Pentagon propaganda program. The investigation was announced a couple of days ago, but I didn’t hear about it until now. Why? Because, as with the original story, the media completely ignored it.
October 17, 2008 | Read More
Reason #94: War on a Credit Card
When you’ve got a half trillion dollar annual budget like the Pentagon does, it’s easy to squirrel away a few billion here and there.
As of this writing, the official cost of our disastrous invasion of Iraq is over $500 billion and counting. To put it in perspective, that’s almost $20,000 for every man, woman, and child in Iraq and almost 2,000 bucks for every American citizen. But the sad reality is, we’re paying way more than that for this tragic blunder.
Since the invasion, congress has been writing checks on credit to pay for the war. (That’s right, we’re borrowing hundreds of…
August 28, 2008 | Read More
Reason #85: Arms for Hire - How our Government Helps Defense Firms Peddle Weapons
With the Pentagon spending more than half a trillion dollars every year-over 5 percent of our GDP-arms manufacturers in this country are making an absolute killing. Companies like Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon rake in piles of the country’s tax revenue. But our IRS checks are just the beginning for the arms makers. The government helps them make even more profits by sending foreign business their way as well.
An office in the Pentagon called the Defense Security Cooperation Agency works tirelessly on behalf of the U.S. arms industry, promoting American-made products and helping foreign governments get the best deals on American-made…
August 28, 2008 | Read More
Reason #40: Hired Guns
Over the years since the invasion of Iraq, network news outlets have consistently trotted out so-called “military analysts” to break down the events in the Middle East. These supposedly objective experts are usually retired generals or admirals. More often than not, they present a favorable assessment of the war. There’s a reason for that. As it turns out, these guys aren’t objective commentators. They’re nothing but good corporate employees acting as government shills.
The networks have been caught - again! - passing off government propaganda as legitimate news.
In April of 2008, the New York Times revealed that dozens of these former generals…
August 26, 2008 | Read More
