The real reasons for war

[undergroundpanther]

The corporate and economic reasons for war

by Chris Shaw, a/k/a the Feral Metallurgist, Unknown News Oct. 30, 2006

We seem to have wrangled and jousted over every nuance of the moral and strategic aspects of the latest war in Lebanon. Wars seem to come and go like dark clouds, their origins as hard to fathom as the weather. They seem to be woven from many fibers of historical injustice and disagreement. They seem to be an unstoppable aspect of human nature.

Yet plainly things are not what they seem. The story of our lives, the story of the serial wars since the end of the 19th century are but a narrative -- a narrative that carefully avoids the underlying corporate and economic reasons for war. The details are hidden in plain sight, but are never presented as a continuum. If the media did their journalistic duty, we would see that all the wars are but pieces of one continuous whole.

War for profit -- Fascism in a nutshell

1. The impetus for war is wealth and power.

2. The financiers with vast wealth and power have a thirst that can never be quenched -- an appetite that can never be sated -- because their rapaciousness only serves to make them the most insecure people on Earth.

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. I'd include not only greed, but fear of losing power and wealth. n/t

[undergroundpanther]

2. yes

The greedy parasite predator creatures of money,greed worshiping insecure pieces of shit in suits that hide yet touch all our lives hidden 'hands'that manipulate the people through money.. They are whom deserve our hate, and it is these well insulated wealthy few monsters that need to be cut out of the foundation of our civilization and fumigated out of our world if we are to survive..

[tjwash]

3. We have a military industrial complex that is out of control.

The U.S. needs to have a major war every 20 years to feed the beast.

[Lilith Velkor]

5. yup

It's so very hungry.

[OneBlueSky]

4. kicked/recommended . . . n/t

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