War Business: Draining America, Destroying The World

The Criminal Cabal that hijacked our government counts on people's apathy and ignorance, and caters to their baser instincts...

Their degree of evil is so profound, as to engender the question: are they even Human?

The United States is now the World's Bully. It is terrorizing nations and destroying our environment. It is a force of evil never before seen on this planet, one that is devouring Humanity and indeed Life on this Earth.

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The annual Global Peace Index, recently released for June 2017, has found that while the world is more peaceful now than last year, violence has increased significantly overall in the past decade.

9 Of The World's 10 Least-Peaceful Nations Were All Targeted By US Intervention:
South Sudan: “Nation-building” gone awry;
Yemen: U.S.-backed Saudi aggressors responsible for famine, war crimes;
Somalia: State of anarchy persists thanks to U.S. involvement;
Libya: Plunged into chaos after challenging U.S. petrodollar;
Ukraine: Targeted by U.S.-led coup over gas industry.

The United States’ not-so-peaceful ranking

The United States itself also plummeted dramatically in this year’s Global Peace Index, now ranking 114 out of the 163 nations surveyed. This decrease was the greatest decline measured in any country this year.

Statisticians have blamed divisiveness that has made itself plain following the 2016 presidential election, as well as a continued rise in homicide rates.

The United States’ involvement in military conflicts abroad is not factored into its ranking, meaning that this placement is conservative at best. As indicated by the ten lowest-ranking nations, if this factor were taken into consideration, the U.S. could likely find itself at the bottom of the list for its role in spurring disastrous and deadly conflicts around the world under the guise of foreign policy. http://bit.ly/2s5Sp8r

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The Obama administration has approved more lethal weapon sales to more foreign countries than any U.S. administration since World War II. Many billions more than G.W. Bush's administration, in fact. And some of these sales will likely result in unintended consequences i.e. "blowback" – especially as more than 60 percent of them have gone to the Middle East and Persian Gulf. http://bit.ly/2stOdA4

In 2013, major defense contractors spent over $65 million attempting to influence Congress. Their lobbying efforts have paid huge dividends:

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Not to be outdone, Trump recently negotiated a $110 Billion arms sale deal with Saudi Arabia, even as the Saudis were raining bombs on Yemen and committing horrifying war crimes. Although the final numbers of the deal have been disputed and Americans have organized against it via petitions ( http://bit.ly/2t6Lfzd ), this week, the Senate approved the $500 million sale of precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia, which is just part of the massive $100 billion arms package.

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The sale of arms to foreign countries is merely a piece of the War Industrial Complex puzzle:

US Military spending is the biggest waste of federal tax dollars ever. Both political parties are equally complicit.

The militarism scam is the best-kept secret in American politics.

When you think about it — but no one in the halls of Congress ever does — it’s hard to think of a country that has less to fear than the United States. Two vast oceans eliminate our vulnerability to attack, except by countries with sophisticated long-range ballistic missiles (5 out of 206 nations). We share long borders with two nations that we count as close allies and trading partners.

Historically, the U.S. has only faced an invasion once, by the British during the War of 1812. (There have been other minor incursions, by Mexico during the 19th century and the Japanese occupation of two remote islands in the Aleutian chain during World War II. The Pearl Harbor attack was a raid, not an invasion.)

Objectively, we have little to worry about beside terrorism — and that’s a job for domestic police and intelligence agencies, not the military. Yet a whopping 54% of discretionary federal spending goes to the Pentagon. The Bush Administration put the Afghanistan and Iraq wars “off the books” of the Pentagon budget. And that’s not counting interest on debt or benefits paid out for old wars. We’re still paying $5 billion a year for World War II. We’re still paying off beneficiaries for the Civil and Spanish-American Wars!

The U.S. accounts for less than 5% of the world’s population. We account for 37% of military spending worldwide, equal to the next seven countries (China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, the United Kingdom, India, France, Japan) combined. (And the U.S. sells a lot of hardware to most of those countries.) http://bit.ly/2rw38u0

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And let's not forget Iraq and Afghanistan: The $6 Trillion Bill for America’s Longest War Is Unpaid! http://bit.ly/2stUSdA

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Do Americans want to increase or cut military spending?

In contrast to Trump’s $54 billion increase to military spending, in the PPC budget survey, 67 percent of Americans favor cutting military spending, with a majority cutting it by $39 billion. While a majority favors trimming homeland security by $2 billion, Trump proposes increasing it.

Trump’s proposed budget does the opposite of what most U.S. taxpayers want: http://wapo.st/2rAEB2l

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What has the world gained from America's militarism?

20 to 30 Million People Killed in 37 Victim Nations Since World War II

U.S. military forces were directly responsible for about 10 to 15 million deaths during the Korean and Vietnam Wars and the two Iraq Wars. The Korean War also includes Chinese deaths, while the Vietnam War also includes fatalities in Cambodia and Laos.

The American public probably is not aware of these numbers and knows even less about the proxy wars for which the United States is also responsible. In the latter wars there were between nine and 14 million deaths in Afghanistan, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East Timor, Guatemala, Indonesia, Pakistan and Sudan.

But the victims are not just from big nations or one part of the world. The remaining deaths were in smaller ones which constitute over half the total number of nations. Virtually all parts of the world have been the target of U.S. intervention.

The overall conclusion reached is that the United States most likely has been responsible since WWII for the deaths of between 20 and 30 million people in wars and conflicts scattered over the world. http://bit.ly/2qkUyK2

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We don't need a thousand military bases around the world. We don't need special ops in 138 countries. We don't need seven wars. We don't need battlefield paraphernalia in our local police departments.

We need to end the CIA and the Banksters' hold on our government. We need to dissolve this war industrial complex behemoth!