This article appears in the January 5, 2024 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.
The Military-Financial Complex
Is Bloated on Blood Money from Wars
[Print version of this article]
Taxpayers in the United States and NATO nations support vast sums of money thrown away annually to the military-industrial-financial complex, for economic waste and physical destruction. This provides a tremendous bonanza to four Wall Street financial giants and banks that are the dominant stockholders of all the biggest war producers, and the ones driving the perpetual wars to maintain their bankrupt financial system with its $2 quadrillion speculative bubble. They are picking your pocket to fund the wars and keep their bubble alive—and they are engaging in genocide and population wars.
In the U.S., Congress voted a so-called “defense” budget of $858 billion in 2023, and the “supplemental White House request” they are now debating, would bring it near $1 trillion per year. Meanwhile our highways and railroads, our bridges and tunnels, our hospitals and schools are crumbling. And the rest of the world, denied American technology and capital goods to help their development, is turning to China and Russia for such help, rather than join with the war machine in its drive toward World War III against them.
Here’s the face of the enemy of mankind, today’s Military-Financial Complex, in three tables.
