Prof. Emanuel Pastreich of George Washington University offers his insights on war profiteering, the military-industrial complex, and the Iraq War-- in particular its parallels, not to Vietnam, but Imperial Japan's occupation of Manchuria during the 1930's. See "Read more..." for related reference links.
LINKS: Lockheed Stock and Two Smoking Barrels by Richard Cummings http://www.playboy.com/magazine/featu...
The brief sampling of media work presented here makes it painfully clear that we do not lack brilliant voices, great stories, or mounting evidence of illicit forces run wild. What we do lack is a coherent vision of what we face and ways to quickly communicate it to the public with galvanizing power.
Our challenges are ignorance, fear, censorship, propaganda and an increasingly lethal merger of authoritarian corporate values and repressive military force.
Despite our unprecedented array of talents, truths and new tech resources, conditions continue to worsen at a truly surreal rate. Many say our democracy will not survive the decade. Others have difficulty recognizing it right now.
We only know it's time for the best & brightest working against this coup to come together now and urgently explore what can and must be done.
