Source: OtherWords
by Sam Pizzigati
“Over three score years ago, former U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower had a warning for America. ‘We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex,’ Eisenhower exhorted in his 1961 farewell address. ‘The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.’ Our wealthiest have never enjoyed a greater direct presence at our government’s highest levels. Sadly, Eisenhower’s warning went largely unheeded. In the years since, the ‘military-industrial complex’ has morphed into an even more worrisome concentration of wealth and power. In his own farewell address, former President Joe Biden gave that concentration a grim label.” [editor’s note: And the irony of Biden making that declaration is undeniable, since that oligarchy was largely in his camp until this election – SAT] (01/23/25)