Even as congress denies billions in assistance to states, there is little if any talk of cutting US defense spending. Since the end of the Second World War, when Dwight Eisenhower warned of the ever expanding military industrial complex, military spending has been linked to the nation’s economic well-being. In times of prosperity and economic distress alike, defense spending is pushed as economic stimulus. And it’s a bipartisan affliction. But who benefits and what is their interest in maintaining a war time economy?
On GRITtv Pratap Chatterjee, the author of “Halliburton’s Army: How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War” and the founder of Corpwatch, Eugene Jarecki, documentary filmmaker and director of the acclaimed “Why We Fight”, and Scott Ritter, the author of “Target Iran: The Truth About the White House’s Plans for Regime Change” examine the business of war and why stimulus and star wars are so hard to separate.
Then retired US army colonel Ann Wright talks about her recent trip to Gaza. Throughout Israel’s intensive war in Gaza, reporters and international observers have been barred from entering the region. Wright says that the damage is extensive and Israel’s disproportionate response “criminal.” Wright and Code Pink are planning fundraising events to aid women’s groups in Gaza for International Women’s Day. Find out what you can do here.
Laura Flanders.com and author of “Blue Grit: Making Impossible, Improbable, and Inspirational Political Change in America”
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I listened to Laura Flanders earlier this a.m., along with Pratap Chatterjee, Eugene Jarecki and Scott Ritter. Talk about sizing it ALL up — this should be a must listen to.