Radio War Nerd EP #363 — Trillion Dollar Pentagon Baby, feat. Andrew Cockburn (Patreon)
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Guest: Andrew Cockburn, Harpers magazine
Recorded: January 26, 2023
We talk to Andrew Cockburn about the DoD's tragicomic budget as it nears the magical 1,000,000,000,000 mark, to the accompaniment of crickets from our media-political "watchdogs".
Subscribe to Andrew's substack Spoils Of War.
Buy Andrew's book The Spoils of War: Power, Profit & the American War Machine.
Check out past RWN episodes with Andrew Cockburn:
-EP 296: Spoils Of War
-EP 191: Pentagon Sleaze
-EP 57: Yemen War
*That St Louis Fed double-y-axis graph mentioned in the episode:
*Interlude music by Brendon Anderegg — buy his music here.
Total time: 1:35:45