The Business of War

[David Morris]

http://www.salon.com/2015/03/22/5_signs_america_is_devolving_into_a_plutocracy_partner/
5 signs America is devolving into a plutocracy
Though the marriage of the state and the corporation has a pre-history, the
full-scale arrival of the warrior corporation only occurred after 9/11.
Someday, that will undoubtedly be seen as a seminal moment in the formation
of whatever may be coming in this country. Only 13 years later, there is no
part of the war state that has not experienced major forms of
privatization. The U.S. military could no longer go to war without its
crony corporationsdoing KP and guard duty, delivering the mail, building
the bases, and being involved in just about all of its activities,
including training the militaries of foreign allies and even fighting. Such
warrior corporations are now involved in every aspect of the national
security state, including torture, drone strikes, and — to the tune of
hundreds of thousands of contract employees like Edward Snowden —
intelligence gathering and spying. You name it and, in these years, it’s
been at least partly privatized.
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