Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Privatizing the Apocalypse: How Nuclear Weapons Companies Commandeer Your Tax Dollars

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

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Privatizing the Apocalypse: How Nuclear Weapons Companies Commandeer Your Tax Dollars

Click here to access article by Richard Krushnic and Jonathan Alan King from Information Clearing House.

Missing from mainstream media is coverage of the huge role that nuclear weapons corporations play in ~~our~~ the government. The authors of this article reveal this uncovered story.

One such missing item is how expenditures for nuclear weapons are separate from the Pentagon budget. I think that this separation is by design because most people only look at the Pentagon's expenditures when examining how much of our tax dollars go to support weapons of war--in this case, weapons of truly mass destruction. But, then, we are an "exceptional nation" according to Obama and the Heritage Foundation:

America is an exceptional nation, but not because of what it has achieved or accomplished. America is exceptional because, unlike any other nation, it is dedicated to the principles of human liberty, grounded on the truths that all men are created equal and endowed with equal rights. These permanent truths are "applicable to all men and all times," as Abraham Lincoln once said.

America's principles have created a prosperous and just nation unlike any other nation in history. They explain why Americans strongly defend their country, look fondly to their nation's origins, vigilantly assert their political rights and civic responsibilities, and remain convinced of the special meaning of their country and its role of the world. It is because of its principles, not despite them, that America has achieved greatness.