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....
Eisenhower's real statement, before he took it out, referred to Congressional-Military-Industrial complex. And you can tell by his later reference in this clip to voting that he included it in his basic thinking. Anyway, of course congressmembers have continued getting their lobbyist pay-offs for voting for weapons and vehicle contracts. Maybe they even hold stocks in the weapons companies. Who's making the profits, anyway? And so the wars go on and on...
Eisenhower's real statement, before he took it out, referred to Congressional-Military-Industrial complex. And you can tell by his later reference in this clip to voting that he included it in his basic thinking. Anyway, of course congressmembers have continued getting their lobbyist pay-offs for voting for weapons and vehicle contracts. Maybe they even hold stocks in the weapons companies. Who's making the profits, anyway? And so the wars go on and on...
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