Alfred McCoy — How the Pentagon Snatched Innovation From the Jaws of Defeat

Another expensive and potentially dangerous boondoggle aimed at world domination? What is wrong with these people.

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Alfred McCoy, How the Pentagon Snatched Innovation From the Jaws of Defeat
Alfred McCoy | Harrington professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of the The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, and In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power (Dispatch Books) from which this piece is adapted.

See also

David Milne, America's Rasputin: Walt Rostow and the Vietnam War

Also

Lawrence Wilkerson to Paul Jay: "I think there is an element in the Congress and an element in the country, a very wealthy element, that sees war to its benefit and needs these threats and so is not about to let these threats go away."

Let that sink in.

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