Dwight D. Eisenhower’s most famous address was his last one to the nation in January of 1961, when he warned America of what he termed “the military-industrial complex.”
“A nuclear war could end us as a civilization and perhaps as a species as well. Why then do we persist in building yet more missiles and bombs?”
This has to end, or America itself will come to an end.
Imagine allowing kids in schools to go hungry because of alleged lack of funds but then funneling nearly a trillion dollars yearly to the parasitic Pentagon cowbird in our midst.
Washington insiders always talk of ‘all options’ being on a metaphorical table…including war, for the president to choose from. They lie. Because the one option that’s never on that imaginary table is peace.
The hot topic in Washington these days has been the worsening “New Cold War” with China.
Hyper-militarization and ever-expanding military spending is the one bipartisan issue in Congress.
The Senate just passed a record-setting ‘national security’ budget, making Americans anything but safe.
The agreement reaffirms that the only truly bipartisan issue in Washington is militarism.
America worships its Pentagod and the weapons and wars that feed it.