US hides war facts from its citizens

PressTv
Thu Jan 20, 2011
January 21, 2011 by Infowars Ireland

Gareth Porter, US historian and investigative journalist



The US military industries are threats to Washington because of the high maintenance budget needs, US analyst Gareth Porter says, adding the war facts are mostly kept from the US citizens.
The US historian and investigative journalist believes that “the dangers posed by military-industrial groups have now morphed into greater threats.”
He further pointed out that the aggressive push for a hike in military expenditure is not only threatening the US armed forces, but also jeopardizing the national security instructions for the US government.
“It’s a broader threat that includes not just the military, but all of the national security institutions of the US executive branch plus the industrial allies that they have or the clients they (military-industrial groups) have plus people in Congress, who are associated with them because of the taint of money coming from the military contracts,” he told said in an exclusive interview with Press TV.

He spoke of the authority given to the US Special Operation Forces “to go into dozens of countries to wage war in secret, and to carry out various kinds of warfare that are not accountable to American people.”
The investigative journalist went on saying that the ‘permanent war’ status quo has exacerbated since 9/11 attacks “because the state formation has taken advantage of the climate of fear to take a whole series of steps … to increase enormously the power that the state formation has to make war.”

In total, there are now 255,065 US military personnel deployed worldwide. The United States has military bases in countries it has formerly occupied or militarily attacked.
According to Allgov.com, more than half a century after World War II and the Korean War, the US still has 268 bases in Germany, 124 in Japan, and 87 in South Korea.

With $663.8 billion, the United States has the biggest military budget in the world. In addition, it has the world’s largest number of military bases.