Why Is The US Always At War?

Описание: Why Is The US Always At War? – Second Thought
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Citations:

Graphs and data
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/f...
https://books.google.com/books?id=vBW... (p.217, 259, 227)
https://www.usaspending.gov/agency/de...
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/pen...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/unwanted...
https://www.businessinsider.com/congr...
https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/se...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...

US campaigns in M.E.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8...
https://www.cnn.com/2014/09/23/politi...
The lies behind wars
https://www.theguardian.com/world/200...
https://www.cnn.com/2013/03/19/opinio...

“Exxon, Chevron, BP and Shell collectively spent more money on the 2000 election to get them to office than in any election before”
https://www.cnn.com/2013/03/19/opinio...

“Iraqi oil fields they’d been eyeing since at least the late 90s”
https://web.archive.org/web/200608271...

Oil prices and war
https://books.google.com/books?id=vBW... (p.226-234)

Petrodollar recycling and wasteful military spending
https://books.google.com/books?id=tWr... (p.156)

The Weapondollar-Petrodollar political coalition and the drive for escalation
https://books.google.com/books?id=vBW... (233, 245, 216, 235, 272)
https://www.everycrsreport.com/report...

Job creation and military spending
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/f...

The Zionist interest in military escalation
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403983428_7

Some sources on political appointees from the MiC
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.201... (see supplemental materials)
https://www.dol.gov/general/aboutdol/...
https://books.google.com/books?id=vBW... p.244-262
https://www.wired.com/2013/08/obama-n...
https://www.wired.com/2013/08/obama-n...
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/...
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/...
https://theintercept.com/2021/05/28/b...
https://inthesetimes.com/article/joe-...
https://theintercept.com/2017/03/21/r...
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09...
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/...
https://www.citizen.org/article/track...

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