Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Middle East Loses Trillions As U.S. Strikes Record Arms Deals

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Middle East Loses Trillions As U.S. Strikes Record Arms Deals

by Rick Rozoff from Stop Nato.

Military exports directly feeds the US military-industrial complex that is at the command center of the Empire. This is a good summary of its activities in the Middle East that have had so many devastating impacts on people's lives in that unfortunate region. The article is based on a recently released...

study conducted by the Strategic Foresight Group in India. The latter, a report published in a book entitled The Cost of Conflict in the Middle East, calculates that conflict in the area over the last 20 years has cost the nations and people of the region 12 trillion U.S. dollars.