On Apr 17, 6:24 am, Vngelis <meberr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/agitation/milit/spies0406.html
> [b]
> 100,000 U.$. spies waste resources[/b]
>
> The United $tates has admitted to having 100,000 spies and an
> "intelligence" budget of $44 billion per year. That is 500 spies for
> every country in the world to spy on.(1)
>
> The next time MIM says that international comrades should be paranoid
> about Amerikans, we hope they take the advice. By themselves, the U.$.
> intelligence agencies would rank 61st in annual income if they were
> one country. That would be ahead of Libya and 119 other countries.(2)
>
> There are a total of 632,000 full-time professors in the united $tates.
> (3) However, that is to forget that many have to put time into
> subjects that do not ordinarily come up in spying. The combined social
> science PhD degrees since 1979 do not equal the employment of U.$.
> spies--and most social scientists do not have an international
> component to their research.(4) So what we are trying to say is that
> when it comes to discussion of international issues, there are more
> people involved in spying than in intensive study of international
> issues in the academic world. Likewise, the academic world cannot
> expect to generate its own influence when much of its international
> studies funding comes from suspect government and capitalist sources.
>
> This is not to count returning soldiers from foreign countries as
> another source of influence on discussion of international issues in
> the united $tates. One in seven voting-age people in the united $tates
> have served in the military, about equal to the number involved in
> industry.(5) A large ****tion of the population also has a self-
> interest in hyping foreign security threats to justify its military
> pensions. This is another source of distortion in the country's
> political discussion.
>
> We have to discredit those who say that Amerikan spying is not a
> problem or reflects a sense of the revolutionaries' overestimation of
> their own im****tance. Quite the contrary, it is the inflation of the
> Amerikan government's idea of the im****tance of spying that needs
> attention. By exploiting the world, the united $tates can hire too
> many people in professions that bring no positive benefit to the
> world.
>
> When MIM speaks of imperialist militarism as a way of life sustained
> by a parasitic economy, we include spies. The Amerikan is a persyn
> increasingly removed from agriculture and industry, and what little
> "knowledge production" the Amerikan is involved in is highly distorted
> by militarism.
>
> Notes:
> 1.http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,192503,00.html
> 2.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29
> 3.http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d04/tables/dt04_236.asp
> 4.http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d04/tables/dt04_302.asp
> 5.http://www.suntimes.com/output/elect/cst-nws-kerry05.html
Love you quoting the MIM. Good one.
David
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