Hump Day YouTube: War Corporatism

Tax day hangover. I’m still dealing with my contributing to, if I may borrow Brian McLaren’s language, our “suicide machine,” our military-industrial complex fueled by our hyper-consumptive addiction to global capitalism. We’re junkies and murderers. And really, when you get down to it, there’s not much we can do about it. We’re pawns, rats in a cage, fueling the machine that will eventually destroy us. Sorry to be depressing, but it’s true.

So, here are a couple of videos on war corporatism. First, Barry McNamara on the war, Bush, and the Project for the New American Century:

And, Immortal Technique and Mumia Abu-Jamal on the real face of the war: