Since the birth or our nation, Corporate Wars and Corporate Interests have often shaped and determined our future and the prospect of others. While hiding behind the pretense of fighting for liberty, militarily intervening on the basis of protecting human rights, and ‘making the world safe for democracy,’ it has often been the greed and self-indulgence of the ruling elite and monopolists that have provoked numerous campaigns of terror and conquest.

In 1996 during the No Fly Zone War and when U.S. led sanctions were imposed on Iraq, (resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children), U.S. Brigadier General William Looney said, ‘If they (the Iraqis) turn on their radars we’re going to blow up their god-damn SAMs. They know we own their country. We own their airspace…We dictate the way they live and talk. And that’s what’s great about America right now. It’s a good thing, especially when there’s a lot of oil out there we need.’

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I should be excited about the Democratic sweep but I can't just can't find any joy because I know that the same corporations are in place to pull the strings. Vonnegut noted that we have the right and left wing of the American business party. Now the left wing is in power but the corporate masters are the same. Corporations run the government. They send your kids to die and be killed in foreign lands. War: what is it good for? The corporate bottom line.