Bruce Gagnon is coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space.
He offers his own reflections on organizing and the state of America's declining empire....
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Thursday, October 07, 2010
NO ECONOMIC RECOVERY UNLESS WE CUT MILITARY BUDGET
It ain't about "defense" anymore.....it's about the US military empire whose job is to protect the interests of corporate globalization
No serious cuts in Pentagon budget = no money for economic recovery at home
It's not just about economic recovery at home - much of the U.S. dollar is backed by foreign debt holdings in Japan, China, and elsewhere. The domestic economies of these countries suffer as well under an international economic system that forces these countries to hold U.S. dollars for foreign trade. International monetary reform is required to pull the dollar plug on the U.S. military-industrial-complex.
We need to get this deficit and the dollar under control - which I don't see happening given that we have a dollar backed by nothing and the Fed is now TRYING to create inflation...
It's not just about economic recovery at home - much of the U.S. dollar is backed by foreign debt holdings in Japan, China, and elsewhere. The domestic economies of these countries suffer as well under an international economic system that forces these countries to hold U.S. dollars for foreign trade. International monetary reform is required to pull the dollar plug on the U.S. military-industrial-complex.
ReplyDeleteCheck out page 7 of this GAO document:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.gao.gov/financial/fy2008/08stmt.pdf
Military spending is the #1 item for net spending.
We need to get this deficit and the dollar under control - which I don't see happening given that we have a dollar backed by nothing and the Fed is now TRYING to create inflation...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t4rzPBcKRo