{"id":32801,"date":"2018-03-26T07:39:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T12:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32801"},"modified":"2018-03-26T07:39:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T12:39:27","slug":"how-the-military-controls-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32801","title":{"rendered":"How the Military Controls America"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"How<\/p>\n

How the Military Controls America<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

Unlike corporations that sell to consumers, Lockheed Martin and the other top contractors to the US Government are highly if not totally dependent upon sales to governments, for their profits, especially sales to their\u00a0own\u00a0<\/em>government, which they control \u2014 they control their home market, which is the US Government, and they use it to sell to its allied governments, all of which foreign governments constitute the export markets for their products and services. These corporations control the US Government, and they control NATO. And, here is how they do it, which is essential to understand, in order to be able to make reliable sense of America\u2019s foreign policies, such as which nations are \u2018allies\u2019 of the US Government (such as Saudi Arabia and Israel), and which nations are its \u2018enemies\u2019 (such as Libya and Syria) \u2014 and are thus presumably suitable for America to invade, or else to overthrow by means of a coup. First, the nation\u2019s head-of-state becomes demonized; then, the invasion or coup happens. And, that\u2019s it. And here\u2019s how.<\/p>\n

Because America (unlike Russia) privatized the weapons-industry (and even privatizes to mercenaries some of its battlefield killing and dying), there are, in America, profits for investors to make in invasions and in military occupations of foreign countries; and the billionaires who control these corporations can and do \u2014 and, for their financial purposes, they must \u2014 buy Congress and the President, so as to keep those profits flowing to themselves. That\u2019s the nature of the war-business, since its markets are governments \u2014 but not those governments that the aristocracy want to overthrow and replace. The foreign governments that are to be overthrown are not markets, but are instead targets.\u00a0 The bloodshed and misery go to those unfortunate lands. But if you control these corporations, then you need these invasions and occupations, and you certainly aren\u2019t concerned about any of the victims, who (unlike those profits) are irrelevant to your business. In fact, to the exact contrary: killing people and destroying buildings etc., are\u00a0what you sell\u00a0\u2014 that\u2019s what you (as a billionaire with a controlling interest in one of\u00a0the 100 top contractors to the US Government<\/a>) are selling to your own government, and to all of the other governments that your country\u2019s cooperative propaganda will characterize as being \u2018enemies\u2019 \u2014 Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, etc. \u2014 and definitely\u00a0not\u00a0as being \u2018allies\u2019, such as are being characterized these corporations\u2019 foreign markets: Saudi Arabia, EU-NATO, Israel, etcetera. In fact, as regards your biggest foreign\u00a0markets, they\u00a0will be\u00a0those \u2018allies\u2019; so, you (that is, the nation\u2019s aristocracy, who own\u00a0also\u00a0the news-media etc.) defend them, and you want the US military (the taxpayers and the troops) to support and defend them. It\u2019s defending your market, even though you as the controlling owner of such a corporation aren\u2019t paying the tab for it. The rest of the country is actually paying for all of it, so you\u2019re \u201cfree-riding\u201d the public, in this business. It\u2019s the unique nature of the war-business, and a unique boon to its investors.<\/p>\n

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How the Military Controls America Unlike corporations that sell to consumers, Lockheed Martin and the other top contractors to the US Government are highly if not totally dependent upon sales to governments, for their profits, especially sales to their\u00a0own\u00a0government, which they control \u2014 they control their home market, which is the US Government, and they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[19474,4394,19473,4457,553,8203,827,844],"class_list":["post-32801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-corporate-control","tag-eric-zuesse","tag-government-contractors","tag-lockheed-martin","tag-nato","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-united-states","tag-us-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32802,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32801\/revisions\/32802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}