The Business of America Is War : Disaster Capitalism on the Battlefield and in the Boardroom
▻http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/19530-the-business-of-america-is-war-disaster-capitalism-on-the-battlefie
There is a new normal in America: our government may shut down, but our wars continue. Congress may not be able to pass a budget, but the U.S. military can still launch commando raids in Libya and Somalia, the Afghan War can still be prosecuted, Italy can be garrisoned by American troops (putting the “empire” back in Rome), Africa can be used as an imperial playground (as in the late nineteenth century “scramble for Africa,” but with the U.S. and China doing the scrambling this time around), and the military-industrial complex can still dominate the world’s arms trade.
If war is combat and commerce, calamity and commodity, it cannot be left to our political leaders alone — and certainly not to our generals. When it comes to war, however far from it we may seem to be, we’re all in our own ways customers and consumers. Some pay a high price. Many pay a little. A few gain a lot. Keep an eye on those few and you’ll end up with a keener appreciation of what war is actually all about.
je repense tout à coup à cet article lu ce matin en regardant ce reportage sur l’affaire Karachi (où l’on apprend que Conseil constitutionnel ne sert à rien)
L’argent, le sang et la démocratie
▻http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/046590-000/l-argent-le-sang-et-la-democratie?autoplay=1
