The U.S. has been in a constant state of war, with a wartime economy offering up ever greater shares of the public treasury to Pentagon profiteers, at least since Sept. 11, 2001, and some legitimately argue since the settler-colonial government’s 1776 inception.  It is often claimed by bourge

U.S. capitalist wartime economy: Bombshell layoffs, exploding oil prices and private equity landmines

The U.S. has been in a constant state of war, with a wartime economy offering up ever greater shares of the public treasury to Pentagon profiteers, at least since Sept. 11, 2001, and some legitimately argue since the settler-colonial government’s 1776 inception.  It is often claimed by bourgeois economists, historians . . .

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