Are you really ready for another war in Iraq?

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129. ^ One way or another we will always be in an area in which

we have corporate resources to protect. That is the way this empire works.

How much we can/should intervene in the world is complicated by the fact that not only do we want to protect our "interests" (above - resources), but we also have the secondary interest of defense contractors who are making billions of $$$ off war. It is in their interest to provoke conflict rather than peace.

I am going to offer a reading rec as I think it can help anyone deal with what we are seeing in the US now (whether we follow Lenin/Marx or not is a long subject for another thread - but just this resource alone can be very helpful):

Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
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Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism Lenine, Imperialisme stade supreme du capitalisme.jpg
Author Vladimir Lenin
Original title Империализм как высшая стадия капитализма
Country Russian Republic
Language Russian
Genre Social criticism
Published 1917
Publisher Zhizn' i znanie

Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917), by Lenin, describes the function of financial capital in generating profits from imperial colonialism, as the final stage of capitalist development to ensure greater profits. The essay is a synthesis of Lenin’s modifications and developments of economic theories that Karl Marx formulated in Das Kapital (1867)