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	Podcast:		TRANSFORM with Marianne Williamson
	Episode:		What's behind our soaring military budget with journalist Andrew Cockburn
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:47:10
	Publish Date:		2022-01-05 04:08:28
	Description:		Our bloated $778 billion dollar defense budget doesn’t make us all that much safer. At least that’s what journalist Andrew Cockburn argues in his latest book, “The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine.” Cockburn, the Washington editor of Harper’s, has spent decades covering the Pentagon and defense industry and says money and power, not safety, is what drives our ballooning military budget. Our conversation details how we got here and how, per Andrew, “The US defense complex is best thought of not as an organization, but as a living, insatiable, creature, dedicated only to its own defense and power.” Read more at MarianneWilliamson.Substack.com
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