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Alfred McCoy — How the Pentagon Snatched Innovation From the Jaws of Defeat

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Another expensive and potentially dangerous boondoggle aimed at world domination? What is wrong with these people.Tom DispatchAlfred McCoy, How the Pentagon Snatched Innovation From the Jaws of DefeatAlfred McCoy | Harrington professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of the The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, and In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power (Dispatch Books) from which this piece is adapted. See also David Milne, America's Rasputin: Walt Rostow and the Vietnam War Also Lawrence Wilkerson to Paul Jay: "I think there is an element in the Congress and an element in the country, a very wealthy element, that sees war to its benefit and needs these threats and so is not about

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Another expensive and potentially dangerous boondoggle aimed at world domination? What is wrong with these people.

Tom Dispatch
Alfred McCoy, How the Pentagon Snatched Innovation From the Jaws of Defeat
Alfred McCoy | Harrington professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of the The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, and In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power (Dispatch Books) from which this piece is adapted.


See also

David Milne, America's Rasputin: Walt Rostow and the Vietnam War

Also

Lawrence Wilkerson to Paul Jay: "I think there is an element in the Congress and an element in the country, a very wealthy element, that sees war to its benefit and needs these threats and so is not about to let these threats go away."

Let that sink in.

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