Why is America “out of ammunition,” according to Matt Stoller? Let’s cut to the chase: it’s monopolies, which our Department of Defense does next-to-nothing to fight, or even discourage. Despite the wars going on in Israel and Ukraine, “today government cash goes increasingly to stock buybacks rather than actual armaments,” which proves, once again, that banksters ruin everything. How bad is the problem? “(T)here are just two people in the Department of Defense who look at mergers in the defense base,” Mr. Stoller writes. “You couldn’t staff the morning shift of a small coffee shop with that, and yet two people are supposed to look at the estimated four hundred mergers plus going on every year among defense contractors and subcontractors.” But hey, it’s not like we won World War II by breaking Alcoa’s aluminum monopoly when they couldn’t produce enough fighter planes. Oh, wait: that is actually a big reason we won World War II.
Wondering how Tha Bush Mobb felt about the current Israel/Palestine war? Inae Oh at Mother Jones reveals that, surprise, surprise, they favor genocide against Palestinians – but now Tha Bush Mobb’s rank-and-file are more prone to turn on their Personal Lord and Savior! After George W. Bush opined that Israel shouldn’t be “consumed by rage” as it obliterates Gaza, his former spokeshack Ari Fleischer – remember when we thought they couldn’t get any worse than Ari Fleischer? What innocence we had! – goes on about how nobody said Americans shouldn’t be “consumed by rage” after 9.11, though I think many Americans have learned a lesson or two about that after all these years. I was about to say Mr. Fleischer forgot that all of Mr. Bush’s “buts” are as meaningless as they ever were, but more likely he was just obeying the fundamental Republican urge of this era: to create drama.
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