Citizens Media Resource: The 'Deep State' Rolls with the Entrenched Power of Wall Street, the Military and the Government

Former Washington Congressional staffer Mike Lofgren talks on Bill Moyers about the "Deep State" which is operating relentlessly in plain sight.

This is real power, the untouchable, the unaccountable combination of corporations siphoning tax money; military and government operatives flexing unprecedented spending and sprawl, and the crushing of humans and democracy beneath its steel tracks.

Lofgren for years had a perfect if uneasy perch from which to see these inexorable machinations in action and how this machinery gets a pass from laws and decency.

Please click any text on this page to read Lofgren's essay.

Wish List of Research

1. Who makes money on war? And on military buying, protecting and occupying? Yeah, we already know, but let's audit this with excellent research that lays out who profited and continues to profit from our invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afganistan....or any other military activity and occupations, past or present. We have at least 823 foreign bases that the U.S. admits to; those are paid for by taxpayers, and the military bases are there principally to guard the oil for Exxon-Mobil. I believe we will find that taxpayers spend a huge amount on corporate welfare and subsidies to giant corporations, whose profits obviously are more important than the lives and limbs that are sacrificed in military actions. While we are at it, we should study who makes money from natural disasters, and how they get handed huge government contracts---in a no-bid rush, of course, since it is an emergency. There are capitalistic exploiters who feed off this as an industry; they are just not so long-established as what President Eisenhower called "the military-industrial complex."

2. Economic impact of legalizing use and sale of marijuana. There's another economic stimulus and revenue raiser. It would be regulated for safety and legal for individuals and small outfits to grow and sell. With the chance for broad participation, and the exclusion of monopolistic takeover of the market, many Americans would have the opportunity to be entrepreneurs.

Citizens Media Resource

Monday, February 24, 2014

The 'Deep State' Rolls with the Entrenched Power of Wall Street, the Military and the Government

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