251 Interventions in 30 Years: A System Addicted to War w/ Ben Norton
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
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The War on Terrorism
If the US government said to the people of the United States, look, we're going to go to war in Iraq because it has a lot of oil, nobody would send their son or daughter to fight for that war. So this public relations campaign is designed to keep the people sort of in a stultified sense, sort of politically asleep. And then just one more important historical caveat before I throw it back to you and get your thoughts. In the 1930s, there was a global economic depression. It looked like capitalism was basically finished. Capitalism was producing more than could be sold at a profit. But by going to war and by military spending, it brought these depressed economies back to
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