We've still got the war in Afghanistan going costing taxpayers $12 billion every month. It appears that we are getting ready to attack Syria — and maybe Iran — and President Obama recently returned from his Asia- Pacific trip where he announced a couple thousand U.S. troops will be deployed in Australia.
Why Australia? Good question.
Maybe most readers didn't hear we are now surrounding China with U.S. military base expansion in Japan, South Korea, Guam, Australia and Aegis destroyers being deployed just off their coast. Obama also has been expanding weapons sales to Taiwan.
Pentagon spending is now well over $660 billion a year, but when you add in the military expenditures from "off-budget" departments like the NRO, NSA, DoE, NASA and the secret "black budget," the true figure reaches $1 trillion a year. The U.S. spends more on the military than the rest of the world combined.
At the same time they continue to ask the 99 percent of us to sacrifice even more and have our children die on foreign lands so that the corporations can control the declining stocks of natural resources on our fragile Mother Earth.
Former President Eisenhower was right when he warned the nation to "beware of the military industrial complex" that has gained unwarranted influence in the halls of Congress.
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