It is easy to discount the notion that a small group of industry captains conspire to manipulate world affairs as a paranoid conspiracy theory. It is the stuff of some of our favorite fiction, i.e., The X-Files, James Bond, etc. But when we are fed the exact same line by our government concerning our enemy du jour, we have no problem towing it. We are expected to believe that Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden get their weapons, power and influence through a secret, underground network that is entirely unconnected to the one that we good guys tap into. We are supposed to believe that there is a global apparatus of scientists, weapons developers and industry magnates that is an evil mirror image of the network we use to do good around the globe. Whether there is a secret brotherhood pulling the strings of our governments and corporations is irrelevent. MC Paul Barman phrased it nicely in “Make No Mistake” with the line, “We’ll know the real rogues by wherever the dough goes.” Jim Crogan of the LA Weekly digs up who those rogues are, and how the same network of war profiteers serves both sides in a multi-part investigative series: Part I, Part II, Part III.
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