<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">We've heard this before, but it bears repeating and emphasizing. And is it remarkable that this quotation and article comes from a professor at Drake University?<div><br></div><div>…<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px; ">It follows that under the kleptocratic influence of the powerful interests that are vested in the military-security-financial industries the US government has turned into an ominous global force of destabilization, obstruction, retrogression and authoritarianism.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px; "><br></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px;"><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/zadeh12172010.html">http://www.counterpunch.org/zadeh12172010.html</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px;"><strong>Ismael Hossein-zadeh</strong>, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Political-Economy-U-S-Militarism/dp/0230602282/counterpunchmaga">The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism</a> (Palgrave-Macmillan 2007), teaches economics at Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa.</span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px; "><br></span></div></body></html>