MEDIA ROOTS– Barack Obama is fighting wars on multiple fronts: Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen and now Libya. His cabinet just approved the biggest military budget since WW2 to fight the global “War on Terror”, and at this rate he will have spent over $8 trillion on defense alone if he serves a full eight year term (including the hidden costs of the war economy). Half of all US tax dollars is spent on US military actions, and the American government spends more on national defense than every other country’s military budget in the world combined.

Every American should ask themselves why it is necessary to spend such an outrageous amount of money on national defense. Is this government really trying to protect the people of this country from the ominous threat of terrorism, or could policy makers be more invested in resource control and profit maximization for their corporate financeers?

This video breaks down how Barack Obama is accelerating America’s descent into a war economy.

For more information and resources, please watch the brilliant film Lifting the Veil about Barack Obama and the failure of capitalist “democracy”: http://bit.ly/hH2BCH

Photo by flickr user Ethan