[lbo-talk] How US taxpayers are paying the Pentagon to occupy the planet

[Wojtek S]

Here is a good piece by my friend David Vine

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/12/20121213122226666895.html

How much does the US spend each year occupying the planet with its
bases and troops? How much does it spend on its global presence?
Forced by Congress to account for its spending overseas, the Pentagon
has put that figure at $22.1bn a year. It turns out that even a
conservative estimate of the true costs of garrisoning the globe comes
to an annual total of about $170bn. In fact, it may be considerably
higher. Since the onset of "the Global War on Terror" in 2001, the
total cost for our garrisoning policies, forour presence abroad, has
probably reached $1.8 trillion to $2.1 trillion.

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Wojtek

"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."