Making Money with Merchants of Death
"The insidious increase in power," says retired army Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, "and the influence over foreign policy that the military has is very dangerous. And maybe in the long run, it's even more dangerous than a coup."
"Maximizing profits and conforming to social policies are separate endeavors," wrote the late Harry Browne in 1995. "You can cater to one endeavor only at the expense of the other."