Occupied Media, by Noam Chomsky: on Homeland Security


Our military is not for defense; rein it in

The thing that can be done, you all know about: reining in our crazed military system, which has about the same expenses as the militaries of the rest of the world combined. But our military system is not for defense. In fact, it's actually harmful to us, if you look at it. It doesn't have to be like that.

So there are things that are quite feasible. Proposals have to be made and brought to the population in a convincing way. And most of the population already agrees with most of these things. But you have to turn the population into a force that will be active and engaged. Then you could have results.

Source: Occupied Media, by Noam Chomsky, p. 49-50 May 1, 2012

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