Johnny Harris, a popular YouTuber with nearly 6 million subscribers, published a video on Thursday that sought to answer an enormous question: âWhy does the U.S. spend so much on its militaryâ? He answers that question in extreme detail and ultimately arrives at uncovering why, in large part, the Pentagon budget is so high: the corrupt process of how lawmakers and big defense contractors and their lobbyists are all on the take.
The first half of Harrisâs deep, 28 minute long dive into the U.S. military budget focuses on what the Pentagon is actually paying for, things like troopsâ salaries and health care, operations and maintenance, bases, construction, and research and development. He notes that the Defense Department is so big and complex, it has never been able to pass a financial audit.
âThe U.S. is not a normal country with a regular military,â Harris says, by way of offering a kind of explanation as to why the Pentagon spends so much on all these things. âThe U.S. is a global hegemon who uses its military to assert control and order over every corner of the globe,â he adds, in effect, flagging American primacy as a culprit. (...)
American culture reduced to aggressive warmongering, ultra-feminist & liberal, Zionist capitalism. Whoa ey...
No bells ringing here. Move on folks, nothing to see.
Perversion & self-destruction are on the march in all the capitalist oligarchies and the masses have long begun to notice. Their votes are counted as extreme right or left wing these days.
The mainstream media who keep aiming their infectious slime blob at us all, feeding off of our taxes and us "voluntarily addicted" readily paying them all we can afford (and more) desperately keep painting a different picture.
Calling for peace, or environmental restriction makes people radicals or terrorists in the eye of the blob.
In so far, the US are dangerously trance-dancing all the West into harmageddon without all our influencers noticing and mankind as sheeple keeps heading for the guillotine.
Is this really necessary?
During the Cold War we had a chance to evade this. Then, when the USSR crashed, we let our guards down and allowed our own capitalist system to devour us all for the financial rewards of a few.
Oligarchy 2.0 on steroids, thanks to the world-leader of this self-destructive movement, "USA".
What the US Did to Haiti How the American public's ignorance of the country's destructive policy towards Haiti fuels racialized narratives about the supposed threat of Haitian immigrants.
Donald Trump and J.D. Vance have recently been pushing vicious racist fake news about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, claiming they are stealing and eating people's pets and destroying the town. But why are there Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, in the first place? What role has U.S. foreign policy played in driving Haitians from Haiti? Jonathan Katz is one of the leading journalists writing about U.S. imperialism and is a specialist in Haiti. The former Port-au-Prince bureau chief for the Associated Press, he is the author of the books The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster and Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of Americaâs Empire. Katz tells us about the history of U.S. relations with Haiti, common misconceptions about the country, and the deeper meaning of the Springfield pet-eating scare and how it fits with longstanding racialized narratives about supposedly threatening Haitians. (...)
They're the ones our parents warned us against. Puppets of the free market & their reptile intelligence growing from exploiting to murderously bellicose and extincting, cancer-like structures. Tumors of the worst kind, indeed.
Despite the claims of Vice President Kamala Harris that there are no U.S. troops in active combat zones today, many remain deployed abroad in dangerous and unsustainable positions across the world. This includes both Iraq and Syria.
The United States and Iraq, however, have apparently reached a deal to begin the removal of 2,500 U.S. forces still stationed in that country. Staged over the course of 2025 and to conclude in 2026, the plan would, if successful, put an end to the U.S. military presence in a nation where many of the internal problems have a direct relationship to the invasion of 2003.
Next door to Iraq is Syria, a country whose own brutal and long-running civil war has also seen over a decade of U.S. intervention, from the ill-conceived Operation Timber Sycamore, the largest known C.I.A. arm and equip program in history, to direct U.S. occupation via bases of significant parts of the east of the country. Meanwhile, a long coordinated regime change campaign targeting President Bashir al-Assad failed after exacerbating the situation on the ground.
Out of this chaotic mess would come the rise of ISIS, something unlikely to have gotten so much traction without all the non-state actors that grew up in the wake of both Iraq and Syrian wars.
But while the U.S. played a supporting role, it was actually a complex patchwork of local forces and Iranian-backed militias that did the majority of the anti-ISIS fighting in the last decade. The U.S. strongly supported the Kurds while opposing to the Syrian government which was also fighting ISIS at the time. Meanwhile, in Iraq, the U.S. worked with Iranian-supported militias against ISIS only to then fear their influence. (...)
