To Stop War, America Needs a Third Party – by Matt Taibbi – TK News by Matt Taibbi
We need new institutions free of Pentagon influence, probably starting with a new political party. It doesn t even matter so much what such a party would stand for, ideologically, so long as it adheres to one basic principle: don t accept contractor money. It seems like the only possible solution to the disease that gave us Afghanistan. Our two parties, just like our academic research institutions, news networks, and even Hollywood s movie studios, have become de facto Pentagon subsidiaries. They re all hopelessly corrupted by the financial powers Dwight Eisenhower warned about, in his famous speech prophesying the disastrous rise of misplaced power from America s armaments sector.
Matt Taibbi is only partly right here, but that’s better than most.