William Rivers Pitt, writing superbly as usual for Truth Out, reminded us eighteen-months ago that President Obama’s former top counterterrorism adviser, Daniel Benjamin
“describes the ramped-up depiction of the alleged ISIS threat as a ‘farce’ peddled by ‘members of the cabinet and top military officers all over the place describing the threat in lurid terms that are not justified.'”
And, beloved members of the arts community, if you wonder how that relates to your nearly-total defunding by the U.S. government, I suggest you don’t have that much to wonder about.
“Get ready for more folded flags,” Pitts writes today, “and more economic collapse as our hard-earned tax dollars, and our children and theirs, are fed into the frictionless machine of eternal war.”