Who’s Paying the Pro-War Pundits ?
Lee Fang on September 12, 2014 - 3:40PM ET
▻http://m.thenation.com/article/181601-whos-paying-pro-war-pundits
Rappel toujours nécessaire devant la masse monumentale uniforme d’"#analyses" d’"#experts"
... what you won’t learn from media (...) is that many of these former Pentagon officials have skin in the game as paid directors and advisers to some of the largest military contractors in the world. Ramping up America’s military presence in Iraq and directly entering the war in Syria, along with greater military spending more broadly, is a debatable solution to a complex political and sectarian conflict. But those goals do unquestionably benefit one player in this saga: America’s defense industry.
[Retired General Jack] Keane is a great example of this phenomenon. His #think_tank, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), which he oversees along with neoconservative partisans Liz Cheney and William Kristol, has provided the data on ISIS used for multiple stories by The #New_York_Times, the #BBC and other leading outlets.
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To portray Keane as simply a think tank leader and a former military official, as the media have done, obscures a fairly lucrative career in the contracting world. For the #General_Dynamics role alone, Keane has been paid a six-figure salary in cash and #stock_options since he joined the firm in 2004; last year, General Dynamics paid him $258,006.
#MSM #complexe_militaro_industriel #manipulations #Etats-Unis