Who are these people?

There is an old movie with Paul Newman about a trial in a Boston court where doctors are being tried for their wrong procedures in surgery which killed a young woman.  To cover their tracks they drove a young woman out of her job in the hospital. In the course of the trial this young woman said: "Who were these men. I wanted to be a nurse." 

I was thinking of this line when I read the most recent figures on military spending. The US is the top spender on arms and military activity in the world. They increased this spending by 45% in the last ten years. Yes 45%. They did not increase health spending or spending on social services or spending on education by 45%. No they cut these. No US worker should allow themselves to be conned by the propaganda of the corporations and their mouthpieces and media that there is no money for human needs. This is a lie. They can increase the spending by 45% on those areas which kill people but on the areas which help people they cut them. The people who run the system are monsters. 

This huge military spending is because the US has bases in over 180 countries round the world. These are there, financed by the US tax payer to protect the property and power of the US corporations. A side affect is that they alienate the local populations and create a bigger base for fighters against the US. 

So to quote the nurse in the movie, who are these people who make the decisions to spend this money in this destructive murderous way, rather than spend this money on the US poor and the poor internationally. This would make for a much safer, much more secure world. These people are the leaders of the corporations who make the military hardware, the leaders of the oil companies and banks who need the US military to protect their property and power, the leaders of all the major US corporations and of course the US military brass and politicians who are bought and paid for by the US corporations. That is who these people are. That is who make these decisions. They are monsters. They must be stopped. 

On another subject. The holding of the two journalists in North Korea. You cannot turn on the TV without heart wrenching stories of their plight. I am not in favor of them being held. This is a stalinist regime. However the main thing that strikes me is not this. I looked up in the dictionary the word for hypocrisy. It says pretending to a belief that one does not hold. Interesting. The US government and mass media is pretending to a belief that these journalists should be freed and allowed go where they like. This is the same government and mass media that has supported the seizing of people from all over the world and held them and tortured them in a prison camp in Cuba without trial or access to a lawyer for almost a decade. Apparently the two journalists in North Korea are staying in a guest house and allowed to call and write their folks.  The prisoners in the US gulag in Cuba are not allowed to be free and go where they like and write and phone their folks. Incredible, the hypocrisy of the US bourgeois. 

Do not believe what you hear on the bosses media and from the bosses politicians. there is plenty of money and resources for human needs and the US government and ruling elite do not believe in freedom. Ask the tortured prisoners of the US gulag in Cuba. 

Sean