Thursday, September 21, 2017

Ben Norton — NYT Lets Think Tank Funded by Gov’t and Arms Industry Claim Huge US Military Budget Isn’t Huge Enough


The Times carry water for the deep state and the military-industrial complex again.
The New York Times (9/18/17) gave an enormous platform to a hawkish think tank that is funded by the US government and by top weapons corporations, letting it absurdly claim, without any pushback, that the gargantuan US military—by far the largest in the world—has been “underfunded.”
On September 18, the Senate voted overwhelmingly (89 to eight) to pass an enormous, record-breaking $700 billion Pentagon bill, giving far-right President Donald Trump even more money for war than he had requested.
Times reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg effectively helped to sell the bill in an extremely sympathetic article, headlined “Senate Passes $700 Billion Pentagon Bill, More Money Than Trump Sought.”
Stolberg’s story also doubled as a kind of puff piece for hyper-hawkish Sen. John McCain, whom it lionized as an intrepid hero boldly taking the lead on the Pentagon legislation.
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NYT Lets Think Tank Funded by Gov’t and Arms Industry Claim Huge US Military Budget Isn’t Huge Enough
Ben Norton

2 comments:

Kaivey said...

Hey, guess who's paying for it? Not the elites because they are getting more tax cuts - on top of all the others they have had over the last 40 years. No, the average guy on the street is going to pay for it. It's a protection racket, the average American has to pay up to keep the bad guys at bay, only they're ain't any bad guys, only those at the Military-Industrial Complex. And they're real mean.

Noah Way said...

Single payer? We can't afford it.