OMNI PENTAGON WATCH NEWSLETTER #12,
September 25,
2021
Compiled by
Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology.
(#1 June 21, 2011; #2
October 29, 2011; #3 March 15, 2012; #4 May 17, 2012; #5 June 23, 2012; #6
August 1, 2012; #7 Oct. 5, 2012; #8 Feb. 13, 2013; #9 March 17, 2013; #10 June
3, 2013; #11 Jan. 14, 2014).
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What’s
at Stake: PERMANENT WAR
“When
the plans for a new office building for the military, which came to be known as
The Pentagon, were brought before the Senate on august 14, 1941, Senator Arthur
Vandenberg of
With
an annual budget of over $600 billion supporting one illegal, unnecessary war
after another amounting to permanent war
(requiring a opermanent War Department), the expansion of empire of over a
thousand bases throughout the world, secrecy, surveillance, and repression
increasing at home (Homeland Security a
domestic Pentagon), our representatives, the Congress, not only giving the
military all they request but more (the military-industrial-presidential-congressional
complex in every congressional district), and all of US massive terrorism motivating violent
(actually peanuts) counter-terrorism
throughout the world against which the US has declared a “Violent War
Against Terrorism,” we the people can be thankful for the many independent,
sustained organizations resisting
the combined violence. In my Peace Movement Directory (2001), I
described over a thousand peace and justice organizations in
Contents, Pentagon
Newsletter #12, Sept. 25, 2021
Pentagon’s War on Terror: Planet’s
Center for Violence, 2001, 2015, 2016, 2021
Greenberg, Guantanamo’s First 100 Days, how America lost its moral bearings in
the wake of 9/11 and the Bush Administration..
The Hidden
Structure of Violence: Who Benefits from Global Violence and War by Marc
Pilisuk and Jennifer Rountree. 2015.
Sherwood
Ross. The new Pentagon Law of War Manual (2016) reveals the further downward drift of the U.S. from a
democratic to a totalitarian society.
John LaForge, Fools Fighting Terror with Terror. April 1,
2016.
Dan Cohen, Petagon, Technology,
Google, Empire: Pentagon Leading a High-tech Arms Race. 2021.
ENDING THE WARS
FCNL, Repeal the Authorization for the Use of Military Force
(AUMF).
Troops and Their Families
NYT, Doubts
Among Families http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/15/us/15protest.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
US War Resisters/Deserters in Canada Support Campaign, Google
Search
Desertion Rates 2005-2j013
Pentagon Fraud Industry
Pentagon Propaganda Machine Google Search
WAR DEPARTMENT: 2001, 2016, 2021
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The Hidden Structure of Violence:
Who Benefits from Global Violence and War by Marc Pilisuk and Jennifer Rountree. Monthly Review P, 2015. 360pp.
Acts of violence assume many forms: they may travel by the arc of
a guided missile or in the language of an economic policy decision that
contaminates drinking water, and they may leave behind a smoldering village or
a starved child. The all-pervasive occurrence of violence makes it seem like an
unavoidable, and ultimately incomprehensible, aspect of the human world,
particularly in a modern era. But, in this detailed and expansive book, Marc
Pilisuk and Jennifer Rountree demonstrate otherwise. Widespread violence, they
argue, is in fact an expression of the underlying social order, and whether it
is carried out by military forces or by patterns of investment, the aim is to
strengthen that order for the benefit of the powerful.
The Hidden Structure of
Violence
marshals vast amounts of evidence to examine the costs of direct violence,
including military preparedness and the social reverberations of war, alongside
the costs of structural violence, expressed as poverty and chronic illness. It
also documents the relatively small number of people and corporations
responsible for facilitating the violent status quo, whether by setting the
range of permissible discussion or benefiting directly as financiers and
manufacturers. The result is a stunning indictment of our violent world and a
powerful critique of the ways through which violence is reproduced on a daily
basis, whether at the highest levels of the state or in the deepest recesses of
the mind.
Because of its inter-disciplinary approach, The Hidden Structure of Violence will be valuable for scholars and
students in a range of fields, but especially psychology, macro-economics,
sociology, international relations, history, journalism, peace studies,
military science, community development, and social change.
Praise:
An encyclopedic and yet highly focused analysis of the causes and
consequences of violence and wars … This is a sober book that nonetheless
leaves us with hope for future generations.
—G. William Domhoff, Research Professor in Psychology and Sociology,
University of California, Santa Cruz; author, Who Rules America?
This is a rare book: It speaks the truth about the causes of war,
and cuts through the veil of theories that mystify and obscure rather than
explain the causes … a scholarly work, fully referenced and documented, yet
accessible to the general public … a forthright and hard-hitting critique of the power elite’s control of government,
foreign policy, and the media. —Milton
Schwebel, Emeritus Dean and Professor, Graduate School of Applied &
Professional Psychology, Rutgers University; Founding Editor, Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace
Psychology; Former President, Psychologists for Social Responsibility.
There are painful truths
here for Americans about the role our government plays in perpetuating global
violence—but some readers will be inspired to follow the authors’ advice on
what can be done about it. —William A.
Gamson, Professor of Sociology, Boston University; author, Talking Politics and The
Strategy of Social Protest.
The authors have cast their
net over the threats to world peace and ecological balance, pulling in not only
fish but monsters of the deep. After painting a picture gloomier than any
canvas by Bosch or Goya, [reinforced Greenberg’s book preceding and by the new Pentagon War Manual following] they
offer a glimmer of hope for a planet suffering from a life-threatening disease.
Indeed, no recent book presents today’s
pathologies so clearly nor provides potential remedies with such brilliant
articulation. —Stanley Krippner,
Professor, Saybrook Graduate School; co-author, Haunted by Combat
This important book is a tour de force of erudition and
scholarship, lucid exposition and organization, cogent reasoning, psychological
depth, and compassionate motivation. It is written in clear, accessible
language and a warm, humane voice. Each proposition is supported by
well-documented evidence, including historical case studies. Through
‘uncovering a destructive system,’ the authors aspire to inform, inspire, and
empower readers to take part in the just transformation of this
violence-ravaged world. In other words, this book’s purpose is to empower
activists for peace, human rights, and ecological sustainability. It is a guidebook to the intricate, highly
organized networks that dominate and are destroying so much of the world in
which we live. —Mitch Hall, author,
Peace Quest
In a few words, it can be said that the book tells it like it
is—it describes the vast governmental-industrial-legislative complex that
controls our lives via war and violence. This is not conspiracy theory any
longer—it is rooted in fact and record. The
authors cite names, organizations, places, and dates that not only promote war,
but also benefit from it financially. The world is the victim! This is a
must read and I call it to your attention.
—Anthony Marsella, editor, Amidst
Peril and Pain: The Mental Health and Well-being of the World’s Refugees
and Understanding Terrorism: Psychosocial
Roots, Consequences, and Interventions
Marc Pilisuk teaches at Saybrook University and is Professor
Emeritus of Human and Community Development at the University of California at
Davis. He is a former president of the Society for the Study of Peace,
Conflict, and Violence and a steering committee member of Psychologists for
Social Responsibility. He has published ten books and more than 140 articles
over an academic career spanning five decades.
Jennifer Rountree is research manager at the National Indian Child
Welfare Association in Portland, Oregon. She has a PhD in psychology from
Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center in San Francisco, California, and
supports American Indian/Alaska Native tribes and urban Indian communities in
community based participatory research.
Sherwood Ross.
New Pentagon War Manual Could Have Been Written By Nazis (also Published in Peace in Our Times) http://worldbeyondwar.org/new-pentagon-war-manual-could-have-been-written-by-nazis/
The
Pentagon’s new Law of War Manual
(LOWM, 2016)
sanctioning nuclear attacks and the killing of civilians, “reads like it was
written by Hitler’s Ministry of War,” says international law authority Francis
Boyle of the
University of Illinois at Champaign.
“Historically, this is a
terrible development,” he added in an exclusive interview with this reporter.
“We are reducing ourselves to the level of the Nazis.”
The grim, 1,165-page-long
document, issued in June by the Defense Department’s Office of the General
Counsel, also sanctions the use of napalm, herbicides, depleted uranium, and
drone missile strikes, among other barbarities.
Boyle points out the new
manual is designed to supplant the 1956 U.S. Army Field Manual 27-10 written by
Richard
Baxter, the
world’s leading authority on the Laws of War. Baxter was the Manley O. Hudson
Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a Judge on the International Court
of Justice. Boyle was his top student.
Boyle is
the leading professor, practitioner and advocate of international law in
America. He
drafted the U.S. implementing legislation for the 1972 Biological Weapons
Convention known as the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989.
“Over the years, 27-10 has
proven to be a total embarrassment to the Pentagon because it sets forth a fair
and accurate statement of the Laws of War both as of 1956 and as of today,”
Boyle says. He termed the new manual a “warmongering” document.
The new document seeks to
distinguish between “legitimate” and “illegitimate” acts of military violence
against civilian targets, using the criterion of military necessity,” points
out Peter Martin of the World Socialist Website. “Thus, acts of mass slaughter
of civilians could be justified if sufficient military advantages were gained
by the operations.”
The bulk of the document,
Martin continues, “amounts to a green light for military atrocities, including
mass killings.”
Martin said the most
comprehensive previous such document, the 1956 Pentagon field manual, did not
state that civilians, unlike military personnel, should be spared “unnecessary
suffering” because it assumed… “that any deliberate targeting of civilians was
illegal and a war crime.”
Among the flagrant violations of international law
sanctioned by the Pentagon’s new LOWM, Martin writes, are: MORE http://worldbeyondwar.org/new-pentagon-war-manual-could-have-been-written-by-nazis/
(Sherwood Ross is an
award-winning free-lance journalist who formerly reported for The New York Herald-Tribune, The Chicago Daily
News, and major wire services. Reach him at sherwoodross@gmail.com)
John M. LaForge. Fools Fighting Terror with Terror.
PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service. TMS Weekly Digest 04 Apr - 10 Apr 2016. TRANSCEND Media Service brings to you its own Peace Journalism Perspective plus
a digest of the week’s relevant News, Analyses, Papers and Videos–in various
languages.
War OF Terror
1 Apr
2016 – April Fools believe suicide bombers can be stopped with more body
scanners and police surveillance. April Fools believe the “war on terror” can
be won using bombs and bomb threats, and that bombs will end it. . When
civilian victims of US military attacks are even noted, the media regularly
report that “coalition forces” caused the death and destruction. This deflects
attention from US command of the warfare especially for April Fools. John
LaForge, syndicated by PeaceVoice, works for Nukewatch, a nuclear
watchdog group in Wisconsin and edits its Quarterly newsletter. Read more...
PENTAGON,
TECHNOLOGY, GOOGLE, US EMPIRE,
Eric Schmidt Cashes in on Artificial Intelligence
arms race
Dan Cohen.
Mronline.org (9-25-21)
As the Pentagon drives a hi-tech arms race to maintain its
global military superiority, ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is the man at the
center. Behind The Headlines’ Dan Cohen investigates how the U.S. empire’s
drive to control the world using Silicon Valley technology creates the
possibility of a devastating war. 
POTENTIAL REMEDIES FOR US MILITARISM/CEASELESS WARS
Thousands of niches and paths are open to us for resistance. It’s not the unavailability of ways to oppose
US militarism that explains public inaction, but only their refusal to act via
thousands of diversions or failure to ratchet up their resistance..
Repeal the AUMF
Support Opposition Military Families
Get Informed about Deserters
Expose Pentagon Accounting Fraud
Read Chris Hedges!
You can’t find your niche for resistance to what you know must be
resisteed?
PENTAGON PROPAGANDA &
RECRUITING MACHINE Google Search, Feb. 22, 2014
Repealing the Authorization for the Use of Military Force
(AUMF).
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MILITARY
FAMILIES RESIST, DESERTERS TO CANADA, DESERTION RATES. See: Support the Troops Newsletter.
2007
Iraq: As Loved Ones Fight On, War Doubts
Arise By IAN URBINA THE
NEW YORK TIMES, : July 15, 2007
Multimedia
Rethinking the War
Jeremy M. Lange for The New York Times
April Ponce De Leon, a Marine corporal, is scheduled for
deployment to
I stopped believing in the war last
month after a telephone conversation with him.
“He started telling me that he
doesn’t want me to go and do the things he has been doing,” said Corporal Ponce
De Leon, 22, speaking by telephone as she boxed up her belongings in their
apartment near
“He said that ‘we have all decided
that it’s time for us to go home.’ I said, ‘You mean go home and rest?’ And he
said, ‘I mean go home and not go back.’
“This is from someone who has been
training for the past nine years to go to combat and who has spent his whole
life wanting to be a marine,” she continued. “That’s when I realized I couldn’t
support the war anymore, even though I will follow my orders.” MORE
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/15/us/15protest.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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DESERTION RATES GOOGLE SEARCH FEB. 21, 2014
[I have arranged the following reports in chronological order;
since rates have fluctuated, knowing the date of the report helps.]
1. Desertion Rates - US
Military -
About.com
usmilitary.about.com
› ... › Justice, Law & Legislation
About.com
by Rod Powers - in
33 Google+ circles
Mar 13, 2005 - Desertion rates for the U.S. Military services from Fiscal Year 1997 to Fiscal Year
2004. ... if one is absent from the military for more
than 30 days, they are "deserters. ... 2001, 62, 0.17. 2002, 88, 0.24. 2003, 56,
0.15. 2004, 50, 0.14. Navy ... 2011 Military Pay - Personal Money Allowance ·
What the Recruiter ...
2.
Army desertion rates up 80% since 2003 - USA Today
usatoday30.usatoday.com/.../2007-11-16-military-deserters_...
Nov 16, 2007 - Darrell Anderson, shown holding a U.S.army ID card in
3.
Military Desertion Rates and the Associated Press - American Thinker
www.americanthinker.com/.../military_desertion_rates...
American Thinker
Nov 18, 2007
- According to America's
biggest news agency, the United
States is facing ... Army desertion rates have fluctuated since the Vietnam War -
when they peaked at 5 percent." ... Years 2000, 2001, and 2002 (8.16, 9.5, 9.26) show higher rates... May 2011 · April 2011 · March 2011 · February 2011 · January 2011 ...
4. US Army AWOL: Myths and Facts - Yahoo Voices -
voices.yahoo.com
voices.yahoo.com/us-army-awol-myths-facts-5119527.h..
Yahoo!
by Jesse Schmitt - in
27 Google+ circles
The truth about
punishments for going AWOL in the US Army is a gray area indeed. ... Dec 22, 2009 "Share your voice on Yahoo websites. ... from the military in the years beginning in
1993 and ending in 2001 is on the rise precipitously.
5.
Army Paid Millions To Deserters, AWOL
Soldiers, Audit Shows
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../army-deserters-awol-so...
The Huffington Post
Sep 27, 2013 - "In this current environment of scarce resources, this is .... U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry points to a reporter
during a press conference ...
EXPOSING PENTAGON FRAUD
Tell Congress: Audit
the Pentagon
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March 31, 2016
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Over $1
trillion for a fighter jet that’s been in production for over a decade that has
yet to see the light of day, and $150 million spent on private villas in
Afghanistan for a “handful of staff and visitors” — those are just two examples
of the waste, fraud, and abuse that led a story from U.S. News and World Report
to call this the
“Golden Age of Pentagon Waste.”1
The Department
of Defense (DOD) receives more than half of the country’s entire discretionary
budget — an astounding $500 billion in taxpayer money per year. But unlike
other government agencies, the DOD is the only government agency that cannot be
audited, and it has never produced a financial statement that can pass an
independent audit.
In the wake of
the recent and tragic terrorist attacks in Turkey, Belgium, and Pakistan, it's
more important than ever for elected officials in Washington to realize that
the security of Americans can't be bought with billions in unaccountable
taxpayer dollars being thrown at defense contractors and weapons programs that
can't be justified. And when they do that, it comes at the cost of the
strategic priorities and programs that will actually keep us safe.
With almost 60
cents of every taxpayer dollar going toward defense spending, it’s a situation
that’s ripe for waste and fraud. The Pentagon’s spending deserves the same
careful scrutiny as other government programs, and it’s time to do something
about it. Fortunately, progressive champion Rep. Barbara Lee has been
spearheading legislation in the House of Representatives to audit the Pentagon
and impose a fee on any unit that remains unauditable. Sign the petition now
and tell Congress to co-sponsor her bill.
Stand with Rep.
Barbara Lee: Tell your representative to co-sponsor the Audit the Pentagon Act.
Click here to sign the petition. http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Pentagon_Audit?t=4&akid=17443.8397125.PBLxHE
The Audit the
Pentagon Act would cut by 5 percent the budget of any federal agency that does
not produce a financial statement for the previous year that can be audited by
an independent auditor.
Auditing the
Pentagon already has bipartisan support. When Rep. Barbara Lee introduced her
Audit the Pentagon Act of 2015, she had several Republican co-sponsors. And
when Rep. Lee introduced the bill in 2014, even Grover Norquist, the
conservative founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform, was there to
voice his support.2
In 2013, the
Pentagon’s own Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction
revealed that the Defense Department had “lost” at least $8 billion in Iraq and
that it was impossible to track how a large portion of the $53 billion the U.S.
spent rebuilding the country.3
It is outrageous
for the Pentagon to evade the same standards we apply to other programs. This
double standard contributes to the Pentagon’s out-of-control budget and culture
of waste by sending the clear message that the Department of Defense department
won’t be held accountable for its wasteful spending. It’s time for that to end.
Stand with Rep.
Barbara Lee: Tell your representative to co-sponsor the Audit the Pentagon Act.
Click here to sign the petition.
Thank you for
your activism.
William D.
Hartung, "A Golden Age for Pentagon Waste," U.S. News & World
Report, February 3, 2016.
"Bipartisan
Coalition Introduces Bill to Bring Greater Transparency and Accountability to
Pentagon Spending," Rep. Barbara Lee.
Neil Gordon,
"SIGIR Says “At Least” $8 Billion Lost in Iraq," Project on
Government Oversight, March 8, 2013.
CREDO Action is
a publication of Working Assets | credomobile.com
Exclusive:
The Pentagon’s Massive Accounting Fraud Exposed
How US
military spending keeps rising even as the Pentagon flunks its audit. [The print edition has a different
title. “Special Report. Exposing the
Pentagon’s Massive Accounting Fraud: Spending Keeps Rising While the Defense
Department Cooks the Books.” The date
for actual publication in The Nation is January 7, 2019. Perhaps the text has also been edited. –Dick]
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On
November 15, Ernst & Young and other private firms that were hired to audit
the Pentagon announced that they could not complete the job.
Congress had ordered an independent audit of the Department of Defense, the
government’s largest discretionary cost center—the Pentagon receives 54 cents
out of every dollar in federal appropriations—after the Pentagon failed for
decades to audit itself. The firms concluded, however, that the DoD’s financial
records were riddled with so many bookkeeping deficiencies, irregularities, and
errors that a reliable audit was simply impossible.
Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan tried to put
the best face on things, telling reporters, “We failed the audit, but we never
expected to pass it.” Shanahan suggested that the DoD should get credit
for attempting an audit, saying, “It was an audit on a
$2.7 trillion organization, so the fact that we did the audit is substantial.”
The truth, though, is that the DoD was dragged kicking and screaming to this
audit by bipartisan frustration in Congress, and the result, had this been a
major corporation, likely would have been a crashed stock.
As Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, a frequent
critic of the DoD’s financial practices, said on the Senate floor in September 2017, the
Pentagon’s long-standing failure to conduct a proper audit reflects “twenty-six
years of hard-core foot-dragging” on the part of the DoD, where “internal
resistance to auditing the books runs deep.” In 1990, Congress passed the Chief
Financial Officers Act, which required all departments and agencies of the
federal government to develop auditable accounting systems and submit to annual
audits. Since then, every department and agency has come into compliance—except
the Pentagon.
Now, a Nationinvestigation has uncovered an explanation for
the Pentagon’s foot-dragging: For decades, the DoD’s leaders and accountants
have been perpetrating a gigantic, unconstitutional accounting fraud,
deliberately cooking the books to mislead the Congress and drive the DoD’s
budgets ever higher, regardless of military necessity. DoD has literally been
making up numbers in its annual financial reports to Congress—representing
trillions of dollars’ worth of seemingly nonexistent transactions—knowing that
Congress would rely on those misleading reports when deciding how much money to
give the DoD the following year, according to government records and interviews
with current and former DoD officials, congressional sources, and independent
experts.
“If the
DOD were being honest, they would go to Congress and say, ‘All these proposed
budgets we’ve been presenting to you are a bunch of garbage,’ ” said Jack Armstrong,
who spent more than five years in the Defense Department’s Office of Inspector
General as a supervisory director of audits before retiring in 2011.
The fraud
works like this. When the DoD submits its annual budget requests to Congress,
it sends along the prior year’s financial reports, which contain fabricated
numbers. The fabricated numbers disguise the fact that the DoD does not always
spend all of the money Congress allocates in a given year. However, instead of
returning such unspent funds to the US Treasury, as the law requires, the
Pentagon sometimes launders and shifts such moneys to other parts of the DoD’s
budget.
Veteran
Pentagon staffers say that this practice violates Article I Section 9 of the US
Constitution, which stipulates that
No Money
shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by
Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of
all public Money shall be published from time to time.
MORE https://www.thenation.com/article/pentagon-audit-budget-fraud/
The Menace of the Military Mind
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[I read this in The War Crimes Times (Spring 2014). –Dick]
I had my first experience with the U.S.
military when I was a young reporter covering the civil war in El Salvador. We
journalists were briefed at the American Embassy each week by a U.S. Army
colonel who at the time headed the military group of
For the next 20 years I would go on from war
zone to war zone as a foreign correspondent immersed in military culture.
Repetitive rote learning and an insistence on blind obedience—similar to the
approach used to train a dog—work on the battlefield. The military exerts
nearly total control over the lives of its members. Its long-established
hierarchy ensures that those who embrace the approved modes of behavior rise
and those who do not are belittled, insulted and hazed. Many of the marks of
civilian life are stripped away. Personal modes of dress, hairstyle, speech and
behavior are heavily regulated. Individuality is physically and then
psychologically crushed. Aggressiveness is rewarded. Compassion is demeaned.
Violence is the favorite form of communication. These qualities are an asset in
war; they are a disaster in civil society.
Homer in “The
Iliad”
showed his understanding of war. His heroes are not pleasant men. They are
vain, imperial, filled with rage and violent. And Homer’s central character in
“The Odyssey,” Odysseus, in his journey home from war must learn to shed his
“hero’s heart,” to strip from himself the military attributes that served him
in war but threaten to doom him off the battlefield. The qualities that serve
us in war defeat us in peace.
Most institutions have a
propensity to promote mediocrities, those whose primary strengths are knowing
where power lies, being subservient and obsequious to the centers of power and
never letting morality get in the way of one’s career. The military is the
worst in this respect. In the military, whether at the Parris Island boot camp
or
So when I heard James R. Clapper Jr., a retired Air Force lieutenant general and
currently the federal government’s director of national intelligence, denounce Edward Snowden and his “accomplices”—meaning journalists such as Glenn
Greenwald and Laura Poitras—before the Senate Intelligence Committee last week
I was not surprised. Clapper charged, without offering any evidence, that the
Snowden disclosures had caused “profound damage” and endangered American lives.
And all who have aided Snowden are, it appears, guilty of treason in Clapper’s
eyes.
Clapper and many others who have come out of
the military discern no difference between terrorists and reporters, and by
reporters I am not referring to the boot-licking courtiers on television and in
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_menace_of_the_military_mind_20140203
PENTAGON PROPAGANDA &
RECRUITING MACHINE Google Search, Feb. 22, 2014
1.
Pentagon Spending Billions on PR to
Sway World Opinion | Fox News
www.foxnews.com/.../pentagon-spending-billions-pr-...
Fox News Channel
Feb 5, 2009 - In the process, it is raising concerns of
spreading propaganda at home in... budget, and the military argues
it is well-spent on recruitment and the ... Robert Hastings, acting director of Pentagon public affairs, says the
growth ...
2.
The Selling of The Pentagon 2013 « DC BureauDC Bureau
www.dcbureau.org/.../national.../the-selling-of-the-pentagon-2013.html
Sep 30, 2013 - There is a budget for advertising, recruitment, and even ... Pentagon public affairs officers are even less helpful in describing
their jobs, salaries .... worrying is they are combining public affairs and outreach with propaganda.
3.
The Pentagon Propaganda Machine Rears Its Head | Cato @
Liberty
www.cato.org/.../pentagon-propaganda-machine-rears-its-h...
Cato Institute
Feb 24, 2011 - Now the Pentagon is using its massive propaganda budget to blur the... for recruitment, advertising and public relations, nearly as
many as the ...
4.
Pentagon Spending Billions on PR to
Sway World Opinion - Infowars
www.infowars.com/pentagon-spending-billions-on-pr-to-swa...
Alex Jones
Feb 6, 2009 - Pentagon Spending Billions on PR to Sway World Opinion ... In the process, it is raising concerns of
spreading propaganda at ... according to Department of Defense budgets and other documents. ... This year, the Pentagon will employ 27,000 people just for recruitment, advertising and public relations ...
5.
Propaganda Machine:27,000 Work in Pentagon PR and Recruiting ...
www.ldsfreedomforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=5953
Feb 12, 2009 - 2 posts - 2 authors
As it fights two wars, the Pentagon is steadily and dramatically ... this year, according to Department of Defense budgets and other documents. ... 27,000 people just forrecruitment,
advertising and public
relations - almost
as ...
6.
WAR PR How The Pentagon Censors, Forces & Uses Hollywood
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WAR PR How The Pentagon Censors, Forces & Uses
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Pentagon Propaganda Is Booming - Truthdig
www.truthdig.com/.../20090205_pentagon_propaganda_is_boo...
Truthdig
Feb 5, 2009 - The military's spin budget—covering recruitment, advertising and public relations—has jumped
63 percent over the last five years, to $4.7 ...
8.
AP Report: Pentagon Propaganda at home - Daily Kos
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Daily
Feb 5, 2009 - In the process, it is raising concerns of
spreading propaganda at home in... budget, and the military argues
it is well-spent on recruitment and the ... Robert Hastings, acting director of Pentagon public affairs, says the
growth ...
9.
Sizing Pentagon propaganda: $4.7b, 27k
people – Mike Linksvayer
gondwanaland.com/mlog/2012/09/24/pentagon-propaganda/
Sep 24, 2012 - The Pentagon spends $4.7 billion a year on public relations and has... Now the Pentagon is using its massive propaganda budget to blur the line ... forrecruitment, advertising
and public
relations, nearly as many as the ...
10. 27,000 to work on Pentagon's image — RT USA - RT.com
rt.com/usa/000-to-work-on-pentagon-s-image/ RT
Feb 11, 2009 - The Pentagon will spend $US 4.7 billion and employ 27000
staff for recruitment, advertising and public relations this year, ... five years the money the Pentagon spends on propaganda at home and abroad has grown ... And, according to the same report, that's
only 1 % of the Department of Defense budget.
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