Fighting climate change means ending war
"The easy movement of high-ranking military officers into jobs with major defense contractors and the reverse movement of top executives in major defense contractors into high Pentagon jobs is solid evidence of the military industrial-complex in operation."
I was utterly stunned when I read these words of former Wisconsin senator William Proxmire, quoted in an essay by William Hartung, not because of the point he was making -- like, what else is new? -- but because he said them in . . . 1969.
Oh, my God, 50 years ago!
This is basically the span of my adulthood. I was so young and revved up in 1969 -- a hippie and idealist,
