First posted on ScheerPost. “Rather than collecting taxes from the wealthy,” wrote the New York Times Editorial Board in a July 7 opinion piece, “the government is paying the wealthy to borrow their money.” Titled “America Is Living on Borrowed Money,” the editorial observes that over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office […]
US Army soldiers on patrol in Afghanistan. (Photo: US Army. Source: Wikicommons)
Richard Galustian
Global Research
Why has it become acceptable that we and particularly our children take for granted wars to be normal? It is because of the profits of Defense companies?
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