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Oil companies, the big defense contractors--they’ve always been directing foreign policy. But now I think what you’ve got is a situation where the boundaries between the corporate world and the political world and the military have dissolved.
Found this St. Clair interview on Cursor.org (originally it's from Socialist Worker).
I've been reading Robert Fisk's book, THE GREAT WAR FOR CIVILIZATION. The chapter where he details the callousness of the arms manufacturers alluded to above will make your blood boil. He specifically talks about bring a shard of a missile that the Israelis fired at a Lebanese ambulance killing a whole family and injury many others to Boeing and asking them if they knew their missiles were being used against civilians. They didn't WANT to know and didn't want to talk about it. This book is MUST READ to know what is/has been going on in the Middle East. Billions are spent on unnecessary arms by all the parties involved. That is why the US doesn't care about Osama. Taking him out would not sell any arms for them. They need to scare us with Al Qaeda, etc. I could go on and on, but if you get a chance read Fisk's book. It is dynamite.
SIRATYST (Stuff I Read and Thought You Should Too) -- “To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.” (Calgacus, as quoted by Tacitus, Agricola 30-31)"
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