"Empire Burlesque"-- The American Military Industrial Complex Rolls On

Item A-- a nice little war racket in Afghanistan; paying the enemy to keep the war going

Item B--Iraq is turning from a brutal war zone into a brutal police state-- the fruit of our munificent act of democratic nation-building

Item C-- the disgusting case of Peter Galbraith: war cheerleader turning into war profiteer

Item D-- under Obama: Guantanamo worse, flagrant war crimes still un-prosecuted, the bogus war on terror still going strong, and entering an ugly new phase with the Fort Hood shootings.

It's always depressing to read Chris Floyd-- but you can't really argue with anything he writes. And depressing, sadly, is the norm of the conspiracy business.