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New TCBH! poem by resident poet Gary Lindorff: 'Riding the elephant'
There is an elephant lying
flat out on the ground,
depressed, wasted.
His life is giving rides.
The push to make Sanders the Green Party’s candidate: Bernie Sanders’ Real ‘Political Revolution’ Could Happen This Fall
By Dave Lindorff
Why the best candidate can’t win the support of People of Color: Where the Bern is Fizzling
By Alfredo Lopez
In the recent New York primaries, Bernie Sanders experienced some very cold water thrown in his face. Not only did he lose, and soundly, but he was served a major lesson about one of the primary deficiencies in his campaign.
Documents: How IOGCC Created Loophole Ushering in Frackquakes and Allowing Methane Leakage
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog
Earthquakes caused by injection of shale oil and gas production wastes — and methane leakage from shale gas pipelines — have proliferated in recent years, with both issues well-studied in the scientific literature and grabbing headlines in newspapers nationwide.
Denying discrimination: Clintonian Political Calculus and the Culture of Hooey
By Linn Washington, Jr.
Hooey –- silly talk/nonsense –- frequently has slimy characteristics and slime is slippery.
Former President Bill Clinton recently slipped on some silly talk when trying to dance around a slime trail oozing from his presidency during the 1990s.
Clinton has a delegate lead thanks to 6 Deep South states: The Democratic Convention Pledged Delegates Story Nobody Talks About
By Dave Lindorff
Bernie Sanders is behind Hillary Clinton in the number of pledged delegates he has amassed over the course of just under two and a half weeks of primaries and caucuses. Her advantage in pledged delegates has fallen over the last month and a half from a high point of just over 300 to a current 213.
Introducing IOGCC: The Most Powerful Oil and Gas Lobby You’ve Never Heard Of
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog
The Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC) is far from a household name, but a new investigation published by InsideClimate News' Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Lisa Song may have just put what is likely the most powerful oil and gas lobbying node you've never heard of on the map.
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The problem’s that Clinton IS qualified for president: Is Bernie’s ‘Political Revolution’ the Real Thing or a Pathetic Joke?
By Dave Lindorff
Bernie Sanders had a shining moment last week at a massive rally in Philadelphia at the Temple University Liacouras Sports Center. The high point came when he mentioned that his opponent, Hillary Clinton, had implied that he was “not qualified” to be president -- a charge that she has continued to make in a tense campaign for the April 19 Democratic primary in New York state.
Heartfelt message or political gamesmanship?: WTF! John McCain Saluting an American Communist?
By John Grant
New Mifepristone label approval just a band-aid: FDA Change to the ‘Abortion Pill’ Overrated
By Jess Guh, M.D.
CIA ‘K-9 test’ gone wrong or something else?: Plastic Explosives Found in School Bus Engine Compartment by school's mechanic
By Dave Lindorff
What on earth was the CIA doing putting plastic high explosive charges on school buses and in hidden places in a Virginia public school in a “test” of K-9 dogs reportedly belonging to the Agency itself?
Obama Apologizes to Argentina: Now It's Time to Apologize to Cuba
By Gar Smith
In an unprecedented act of geopolitical contrition, Barack Obama has become the first US president to apologize to another world leader for America's role in overthrowing an elected democracy and installing a brutal military regime that murdered and "disappeared" more than 30,000 civilians.
The apology was tendered on March 24, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Well, actually, what Obama apologized for was the US being "slow to speak out for human rights." Washington's military role in supporting the coup, the dictatorship and the "dirty war" were only inferred. As Amanda Taub observed on Vox World: "Obama was, unsurprisingly, pretty vague on what role the US played in that conflict."
Obama reportedly was compelled to offer the mea culpa at the insistence of Argentine President Mauricio Macri who made it a precondition of Obama's state visit—on the 40th anniversary of the US-backed military coup.
Hot time in the old town of Philly in July?: Washington, Alaska and Hawaii Blowout Wins Boost Sanders Nomination Odds
By Dave Lindorff
Stolen primary in Arizona?: Questioning Hillary’s Tuesday Primary Win Amid Widespread Evidence of Voter Suppression in Phoenix
By Dave Lindorff
It sure looks like there was some voter fraud committed in the Democratic primary in Arizona on Tuesday.
Hillary Clinton backed the coup: Shine the Light of Truth on Poor Honduras
By John Grant
Since the coup, Honduras has become one of the most dangerous places in the world.
Why I won’t be voting for Hillary in November: A Neolib Posing as a Progressive vs. a Reality TV Star Posing as a Fascist
By Dave Lindorff
I won’t be voting for Hillary Clinton if she wins the Democratic Party nomination for president, and I won’t heed Bernie Sanders if, as he has vowed to do, he calls on his supporters to “come together” after the convention, should he lose, to support Clinton and prevent Donald Trump or another Republican from becoming president.
Open Letter to President Obama to Take Concrete Action on Ending the US Blockade/Embargo on Cuba, and to Return Guantanamo to Cuba
We welcome President Obama’s decision to travel to Cuba for talks with the Cuban government.
We undersigned organizations and individuals call on President Obama to take concrete actions on two outstanding issues to restore normal diplomatic relations between the two countries:
1. End the 54 year old embargo/blockade of Cuba,
2. Return the US occupied territory of Guantanamo to Cuba.
Economic Impact of the Embargo/Blockade of Cuba
Cuba lost out on at least US$117 billion between 1960 and 2014 due to the U.S. economic blockade on the country, according to the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.[i] The embargo/blockade not only hurts Cuba, but also the US. The US Chamber of Commerce, which advocates lifting the embargo, states the cost to the US economy of the 54 year sanctions range from $1.2 to $3.6 billion per year.[ii] On the US embargo/blockade of Cuba, President Obama can exercise his authority in the following areas: 1) authorize the use of the dollar in international transactions; 2) permit Cuba to import from third countries products with more than 10 percent U.S. components; 3) allow Cuban entities to open correspondent accounts in U.S. banks; 4) end the policy of financial persecution against Cuba; 5) not impede the granting of credits or other financial facilities; 6) allow imports of Cuba’s exportable products or services; 7) authorize Cuban planes and boats to carry passengers, cargo and mail between the two countries; 8) authorize direct exports of U.S. products to Cuba; 9) authorize companies to invest in Cuba (international firms have submitted more than 400 proposals for investment in the Mariel Economic Zone); 10) remove the limit on Cuban products that can be imported by U.S. visitors to Cuba; 11) authorize U.S. citizens to receive medical treatment in Cuba; 12) allow the distribution of credits, loans and financing for the acquisition of products in the U.S. market. The US Naval Base at Guantánamo The US Base at Guantánamo is 113 years old as of February 23, 2016. It was the first U.S. base in our hemisphere and is the oldest U.S. overseas base in the world, and the only one whose host country lacks contractual authority to unilaterally revoke it. We call on President Obama to implement these actions to alleviate the US blockade on Cuba and to set a timetable for returning US occupied Guantanamo to the Cuban nation. Noam Chomsky Chicago ALBA Solidarity Committee Medea Benjamin, Co-founder, Code Pink SOA Watch Rev. Michael Kinnamon, former General Secretary, National Council of Churches IFCO/Pastors for Peace Glen Ford, Executive Editor, Black Agenda Report Tom Hayden Carl Rosen, President of Western Region, United Electrical Workers (UE) Chuck Kaufman, National Coordinator, Alliance for Global Justice Eva Golinger, Journalist/writer,The Chavez Code; Bush vs Chavez Marjorie Cohn, past President, National Lawyers Guild; Professor, Thomas Jefferson School of Law Rev. Joan Brown Campbell, former General Secretary, National Council of Churches Cindy Sheehan, Author/Activist James Early, Board member, Institute for Policy Studies, Regional Articulation of Afro- Descendants, Latin America and Caribbean Kevin Martin, Executive Director, Peace Action Council on Hemispheric Affairs Council on Latin American Relations Leah Bolger, CDR, USN (Ret), former National President, Veterans For Peace José E. López, Executive Director, Puerto Rico Cultural Center Fred Hirsch, Delegate to the South Bay Labor Council Cristina Vazquez, International Vice President, Workers United WSRJB 52, SEIU Task Force on the Americas International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee Blasé Bonpane, Office of the Americas Rev. Kristin Stoneking, Executive Director, Fellowship of Reconciliation Dave Welsh, Delegate, San Francisco Labor Council Dan Kovalik, USW Associate General Counsel Alicia Jrapko, US Coordinator, International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity National Lawyers Guild, Cuba Subcommittee Bill Preston, President. AFGE Local 17 David McReynolds, War Resisters League (retired) Jane Franklin, Historian, Cuba and the United States, A Chronological History Alex Main, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Historians Against the War Delvis Fernandez Levy, Cuban American Alliance Walter Lippmann, CubaNews, Los Angeles Tiana Ocasio, President, Connecticut Chapter, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement Stephen Kimber, journalist, author, What Lies Across the Water, The Real Story of the Cuban 5 David Swanson, author, WorldBeyondWar.org, WarisaCrime.org New Internationalism Project of Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) Alejandro Molina, Michelle Morales, National Boricua Human Rights Network; Campaign to Free Oscar Lopez Rivera Sara Flounders, Co-Director, International Action Center Rabbi Brant Rosen John McAuliff, Executive Director, Fund for Reconciliation and Development; Coordinator, Cuba-US People to People Partnership Cherrene Horazuk, President, AFSCME 3800 RootsAction.org Hon. Jim Ferlo, President, Pittsburgh-Matanzas-Sister Cities Association Salim Lamrani, author, The Economic War Against Cuba Tom Hansen, International Education Director, Mexico Solidarity Network Arnold August, journalist, author, Cuba and its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion Dan Beeton, CEPR Reese Erlich, author, Dateline Havana Albert A. Fox, Jr., President, Alliance for Responsible Cuba Policy Foundation Joe Iosbaker. Co-Chair, SEIU Local 73 Joint Bargaining Committee at UIC Richard Berg, past President, Teamsters Local 743 Art Heitzer, Wisconsin Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba Pam Africa, Suzanne Ross, International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal Matt Meyer. War Resisters International;International Peace Research Association Keith Bolender, author, Voices From the Other Side: An Oral History of Terrorism Against Cuba; Cuba Under Siege: American Policy, the Revolution and Its People Bob Guild, Vice President, Marazul Charters, Inc. Charles A. Serrano, ASG International, Inc. Elizabeth Hill, President, Canadian-Cuban Friendship Association Toronto Mike Beilstein, Corvallis,OR City Councilor 8th Day Center for Justice Lisa Valanti, President US-CUBA Sister Cities Association Church Women United, New York State Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America St. Louis Inter-Faith Committee on Latin America Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence The Friendship Association (formerly St. Augustine-Baracoa Friendship Association) Minnesota Cuba Committee Wendy Thompson. former Pres. L. 235, UAW, American Axle Detroit Gear & Axle Felix Masud-Piloto, Professor of History, DePaul University Alice Slater, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Catherine Murphy, The Literacy Project Marcela Vásquez-León, Director, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Arizona Dereka Rushbrook, Associate Professor, School of Geography & Development; Co-Director, Contemporary Cuba Study Abroad Program, University of Arizona Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba US Women and Cuba Collaboration Let Cuba Live Committee of Maine Heide Trampus, Coordinator, Worker to Worker, Canada-Cuba Labour Solidarity Network H. Bruce Franklin, Author Seattle/Cuba Friendship Committee Ken Crowley, National Delegations Organizer, Witness for Peace Portland Central America Solidarity Committee Houston Peace and Justice Center Rochester Committee on Latin America (ROCLA) Kentucky Interfaith on Latin America and the Caribbean Graciela Sanchez, Executive Director Esperanza Peace and Justice Center (Texas) Pedro Cabán, Professor and Chair, Latin American, Caribbean and U.S. Latino Studies University at Albany, SUNY Sacramento Action for Latin America Charlotte Koons, co-founder, Code Pink-Long Island, Women for Peace CUBAmistad (Bloomington, IN) Leslie Salgado, Chair, Howard County Friends of Latin America Friends of Cuba Against the Blockade - Vancouver Nino Pagliccia, activist, author, Cuba Solidarity in Canada John Laun, Colombia Support Network Gabriel Hetland, Assistant Professor, Latin American, Caribbean and U.S. Latino Studies, University at Albany, SUNY Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Committee, DC Metropolitan Area Kathryn Albrecht, journalist/writer, Nueva Mexico Shirley Warren, New Paltz Women In Black Laurence H. Shoup, author, Wall Street's Think Tank: the Council on Foreign Relations and the Empire of Neoliberal Geopolitics 1976-2014 Nebraskans for Peace Corinne Willinger, Granny Peace Brigade, NYC Metro Raging Grannies African Awareness Association Rockford Peace and Justice Action Committee All-African People's Revolutionary Party (GC) Rebecca Navarrete-Davis, President Berkeley-Palma Soriano Sister City Association Barbara G. Harris, Granny Peace Brigade Greater Hartford Coalition on Cuba Meredith Aby, Miinnesota Anti-War Committee LELO (Legacy of Leadership, Equality and Organizing) Carl Finamore, Machinist Lodge 1781 delegate, San Francisco Labor Council, AFL-CIO Kait McIntyre, Chicago Anti-War Committee Rev. Mother Marcy, founder, Public Intellectuals for Social and Spare Change Charles Newlin, Coordinating Committee Linn-Benton Pacific Green Party (Oregon) Bert Hestroffer, International Brotherhood of Teamsters Marc Becker, Professor of Latin American History, Truman State University Christine Preble, Ass. Professor and Undergraduate Program Director Department of Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies, University at Albany, SUNY Michael Martin, Professor, Media School, Indiana University Sarah Blue, Assistant Professor of Geography, Texas State University Marcela Vásquez-León, Dir., Center for Latin American Studies, Ass. Professor, Univ. of Arizona Dianne Post, International Human Rights Attorney, Phoenix, AZ Ann Eagan, Treasurer, Manhattan Green Party Francis Shor, Professor Emeritus, History, Wayne State University Sherry Millner, Professor, CUN Lucille Roussin, Prof., Dir. Holocaust Restitution Claims Practicum, Cardozo School of Law(NYC) Cole Harrison, Executive Director, Massachusetts Peace Action William H. Slavick, Professor of English, University of Southern Maine (retired) Hermann Engelhardt, Senior Research Associate in Geophysics, Emeritus,California Institute of Technology (Cal Tech) Ken Hayes SOAW-Austin, TX Mary Ann Jones, Southern Oregon Friends of Cuba United States Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) Rob Kall, Publisher, OpEdNews.com Kim Scipes, Editor of Building Global Labor Solidarity in a Time of Accelerating Globalization [ii] Hanson Daniel, Dayne Batten & Harrison Ealey. "It's Time For The U.S. To End Its Senseless Embargo Of Cuba," Forbes Magazine. http://www.forbes.com/sites/ The US International Trade Commission makes a similar estimate: http://www.cato.org/ “By 1992, U.S. businesses had lost over $30 billion in trade over the previous thirty years, according to researchers from Johns Hopkins. At that time, Cuba’s loss for the same period was smaller, but not by much: $28.6 billion, according to Cuba’s Institute of Economic Research.” http://www.dollarsandsense. A study by the Cuba Policy Foundation estimated that the annual cost to the US economy could be $4.84 billion in agricultural exports and related economic output. "America's Farmers Bearing Heavy Burden for U.S. Embargo Against Cuba: New Report," www.cubafoundation.org, Jan. 28, 2002
(Former City Council President and PA State Senator 1988-2014, now retired)
Ticking time bomb: Youth Violence Solution? Authorities Should Stop Ignoring Local Activists
By Linn Washington, Jr.
London and Philadelphia -- Over three thousands miles and more than forty years in age separate anti-violence activists Bilal Qayyum and Noel Williams, yet each advocates a similar solution to ‘the problem’ they seek to solve in their respective cities located on separate sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
Expat insights: The Color of Change in Berlin and Beyond
By Linn Washington, Jr.
The consequential changes sweeping across Europe, from immigrants impacting demographics to an increasing embrace of right-wing ideologies, are not surprising to Professor Donald Muldrow Griffith, an American who has lived in Berlin, Germany for over three decades.
Fracking Supply Chain a Climate Disaster, Doing Little to Uplift Poor Communities: Studies
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog
Two recent studies further call into question the oil and gas industry's claims of the climate benefits and community benefits of hydraulic fracturing ("fracking").
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Lawmakers make Texas MDs offer substandard care: Texas Abortion Laws Pose Dangerous Implications for All of Medicine
By Jess Guh
Much like expensive red wines, many Facebook relationships, and Kanye West’s psychological state, the case of Texas House Bill No. 2 is complicated.
Not a typical TCBH! article, but urgently important: If You and a Spouse Will Both Be 66 by 4/30, a Pot of Money Awaits You
By Dave Lindorff
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT FOR BOOMERS "OF A CERTAIN AGE"
White power and the ‘model minority’ myth: Officer Peter Liang Highlights the Asian-American Identity Crisis
By Jess Guh
The conviction of Peter Liang is the best thing that has happened to Asian Americans since the Immigration and Nationality Act of the 1960s. It’s also an embarrassingly example of how bewildered the minds of some Asian Americans are when it comes to race.
I’m just sayin’... Who Cares About Democratic Primary Results in South Carolina -- a State Democrats Will Lose in November?
By Dave Lindorff
I'll be the first to admit I'm no pollster or even political scientist, but when I read that Bernie Sanders is going to be crushed by Hillary Clinton in Saturday's primary in South Carolina, the state that fired the opening shots in the Civil War and that only last year took down a Confederate battle flag in front of the capitol building, I have to shake my head at the absurdity of it.
A Big Lie: Hollywood Producers’ Failure to Fulfill 1942 Pledge Perpetuated Prejudice
By Linn Washington, Jr.
Hollywood honchos told a big lie 74-years ago.
That lie told in 1942 is a link in the sordid chain of perceptions and practices that have produced the present brouhaha surrounding the 2016 Oscar awards featuring an all-white bevy of acting category nominations.
Whatever its motive, Apple’s on the right side...so far: Apple Champions Privacy; Government Seeks to Trash It
By Alfredo Lopez
Truth can be stranger than fiction...or at least more surprising. Apple Computer is the current champion of privacy against U.S. government attempts to expand its spying on us. The company, a frequent NSA and FBI collaborator in the past, finds itself in the strange position of confronting a federal court order to dislodge its iPhone security system, an action Apple insists will cripple encryption as a privacy-protection measure.
Striking out at the NY Times: Hit Piece on Sanders Proposals Relies on Pro-Clinton Economists Mislabeled as ‘Leftists’
By Dave Lindorff
As Bernie Sanders’ insurgent campaign for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination continues to strengthen, so do the attacks on him by the establishment corporate media, which are reflexively backing the status quo corporatocracy.
Scalia, Shmalia: Corporate Front Groups Helped Win Supreme Court Stay of Obama Clean Power Plan
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog
Chomsky Wants You to Wake Up from the American Dream
If you've just seen Michael Moore's movie and are wondering how in the world the United States got diverted into the slow lane to hell, go watch Noam Chomsky's movie. If you've just seen Noam Chomsky's movie and are wondering whether the human species is really worth saving, go see Michael Moore's movie. If you haven't seen either of these movies, please tell me that you haven't been watching presidential debates. As either of these movies would be glad to point out to you, that's NOT HOW YOU CHANGE ANYTHING.
"Filmed over four years, these are his last long-form documentary interviews," Chomsky's film, Requiem for the American Dream, says of him at the start, rather offensively. Why? He seems perfectly able to give interviews and apparently gave those in this film for four years. And of course he acquired the insights he conveys over many more years than that. They are not new insights to activists, but they would be like revelations from another world to a typical U.S. resident.
Chomsky explains how concentrated wealth creates concentrated power, which legislates further concentration of wealth, which then concentrates more power in a vicious cycle. He lists and elaborates on ten principles of the concentration of wealth and power -- principles that the wealthy of the United States have acted intensely on for 40 years or more.
1. Reduce Democracy. Chomsky finds this acted on by the very "founding fathers" of the United States, in the creation of the U.S. Senate, and in James Madison's statement during debate over the U.S. Constitution that the new government would need to protect the wealthy from too much democracy. Chomsky finds the same theme in Aristotle but with Aristotle proposing to reduce inequality, while Madison proposed to reduce democracy. The burst of activism and democracy in the United States in the 1960s scared the protectors of wealth and privilege, and Chomsky admits that he did not anticipate the strength of the backlash through which we have been suffering since.
2. Shape Ideology. The Powell Memo from the corporate right, and the Trilateral Commission's first ever report, called "The Crisis of Democracy," are cited by Chomsky as roadmaps for the backlash. That report referred to an "excess of democracy," the over engagement of young people with civic life, and the view that young people were just not receiving proper "indoctrination." Well, there's a problem that's been fixed, huh?
3. Redesign the Economy. Since the 1970s the United States has been moved toward an ever larger role for financial institutions. By 2007 they "earned" 40% of corporate profits. Deregulation has produced wealth concentration and economic crashes, followed by anti-capitalist bailouts making for more wealth concentration. Offshore production has reduced workers' pay. Alan Greenspan testified to Congress about the benefits of promoting "job insecurity" -- something those Europeans in Michael Moore's film don't know about and might find it hard to appreciate.
4. Shift the Burden. The American Dream in the 1950s and 60s was partly real. Both the rich and the poor got richer. Since then, we've seen the steady advance of what Chomsky calls the plutonomy and the precariat, that is the wealthy few who run the show and get all the new wealth, and the precarious proletariat. Back then, taxes were quite high on corporations, dividends, and wealth. Not anymore.
5. Attack Solidarity. To go after Social Security and public education, Chomsky says, you have to drive the normal emotion of caring about others out of people's heads. The U.S. of the 1950s was able to make college essentially free with the G.I. Bill and other public funding. Now a much wealthier United States is full of "serious" experts who claim that such a thing is impossible (and who must strictly avoid watching Michael Moore).
6. Run the Regulators. The 1970s saw enormous growth in lobbying. It is now routine for the interests being regulated to control the regulators, which makes things much easier on the regulated.
7. Engineer Elections. Thus we've seen the creation of corporate personhood, the equation of money with speech, and the lifting of all limits under Citizens United.
8. Keep the Rabble in Line. Here Chomsky focuses on attacks on organized labor, including the Taft Hartley Act, but one could imagine further expansions on the theme.
9. Manufacture Consent. Obsessive consumers are not born, they're molded by advertising. The goal of directing people to superficial consumption as a means of keeping people in their place was explicit and has been reached. In a market economy, Chomsky says, informative advertisements would result in rational decisions. But actual advertisements provide no information and promote irrational choices. Here Chomsky is talking about, not just ads for automobiles and soap, but also election campaigns for candidates.
10. Marginalize the Population. This seems as much a result as a tactic, but it certainly has been achieved. What the public wants does not typically impact what the U.S. government does.
Unless the trends described above are reversed, Chomsky says, things are going to get very ugly.
Then the film shows us a clip of Chomsky saying the same thing decades earlier when he was still shown on U.S. television. He's been marginalized along with the rest of us.
I imagine every friendly critic of this film has a #11 to add, and that they are all different. In fact, I can think of lots of things to add, but I insist on mentioning one of them. It's the same one missing from Bernie Sanders' home movie starring Iowa and New Hampshire. Its the thing missing from all U.S. discourse but showing up in Michael Moore's movie as a great difference between the United States and Europe.
11. Dump Massive Funding into Militarism. Why should this be included? Well, militarism is the biggest public program in the United States. It's over half of federal discretionary spending. If you're going to claim that lobbyists are concentrating wealth through their influence on the government, why not notice the single budget item that eats up over half the budget? It does indeed concentrate wealth and also power. It's a vast pot of unaccountable funding for cronies. And it generates public interest in fighting foreign enemies rather than enemies hanging out on Wall Street. It does militarize the police for free, however, just in case Wall Street generates any disgruntled customers.
Chomsky does, of course, oppose militarism. As far as I know he's consistently opposed it for many years. We see B-roll of him in the movie with anti-war books in his office. And discussion of point #1 above mentions the peace movement of the 1960s. How the single biggest thing that the wealthy and powerful do in their effort to expand their power over the whole globe didn't make the top-10 list I don't know.
The film concludes with a call to build mass movements for change. The United States still has a very free society, Chomsky advises. A lot can be done, he tells us, if people will only choose to do it.
