After deploying a destroyer to the Gulf of Mexico, threatening to wipe out Palestinians, and acts of aggression in the Middle East, it seems war is knocking on the door
The problem with the military, outside of its lethal ability to control who is speaking, is that it can be used by any kleptocrats to push a company like Halliburton into the Fortune 500, that too big to fail USA casino, and out of whole cloth create new fortunes in the carceral state, today for having committed no crime, broken no law, and not fit the NSA’s definition of terrorism. $2.5T every year down the billionaire drain because we don’t have priorities like affordable housing, medical debt or child welfare and nutrition.
The problem with the military, outside of its lethal ability to control who is speaking, is that it can be used by any kleptocrats to push a company like Halliburton into the Fortune 500, that too big to fail USA casino, and out of whole cloth create new fortunes in the carceral state, today for having committed no crime, broken no law, and not fit the NSA’s definition of terrorism. $2.5T every year down the billionaire drain because we don’t have priorities like affordable housing, medical debt or child welfare and nutrition.
Exactly. We got pushed out of Louisiana during Katrina recovery efforts by Brown and Root, a Halliburton company. It's the same story over and over.