[Craic] Col. Lawrence Wilkerson speech

[David Walsh]

Fyi

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff for Secretary of State Colin Powell  - keynote speaker at Peace Action Maine's 2019 Spring Gathering  - (1) Maine 2019 Spring Gathering & Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson Speech - YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZA2yIFkhKg>
Wilkerson speaks about the military industrial complex and 'Waking Up!" 8 min mark - quoting Dwight Eisenhower,  'a 5 star General' from his 1961 farewell speech speaking about the danger of the military industrial complex - "military spending takes away funds from spending on humanitarian needs - a theft from those who hunger, etc. "We are the merchants of death for 7 billion people"..... Half the world hates our guts"

See more on Eisenhower's address on this CBC Ideas program
"Today we have become what Eisenhower's worst nightmare predicted in his farewell address.- Col. Lawrence Wilkerson https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/republican-party-must-change-warns-ex-u-s-army-colonel-1.5738677
14 min mark - "We have the greatest maldistribution of wealth in our history - worse than in 1929"
18:30 min mark - He predicted in 2019 events similar to the Trump riot at the White House18 months before it happened. "We still have an industrial complex aimed at war".... "Trump's base own 90% of the guns in America"... Talks about "if there is a coup, would the military support Trump or the country".
We are losing our democracy"
52:40  min mark - "We need to shut down ¾ of the 800 military bases that the US has." --
55  minute mark - Hilary Clinton was responsible for supporting the military junta in Honduras
56 min mark - Koch brothers and tar sands



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