Economics of War
Ralph Nader and Col. Larry Wilkerson https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ralph-nader-radio-hour/id874581610
"Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." https://eisenhowerfoundation.net/primary-source/item/chance-peace
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Chance_for_Peace_speech
$14 Trillion to Pentagon since Afghanistan
Surveillance and War Tech https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/social/rights/surveillance
Big Tech and War https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2024/siliconvalley Total Information Awareness https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2023/surveillance
7,057 dead military post-911 30,187 suicides https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/military/killed
432,093 direct civilian deaths 3.6-3.8 million related harmed 7.6 million child malnutrition https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians
40℅ (increase to over half in next decades) of vets with lifetime disability https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/economic/budget/veterans
US Police (internal military) spending close to equivalent to cost of entire Chinese military.
What positive benefit do we get in return for spending Billions to attack ourselves with the internal military?
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-economics-of-us-labor-struggles-and-gaza/id1053981528?i=1000675821874