For the corporate media, the issue of cutting military spending is virtually taboo

In an article in today’s (March 5, 2021) N.Y. Times titled “Too Many Smart People Are Being Too Dismissive of Inflation,” op-ed writer Steven Ratner suggests that various social programs be cut in order to curb inflation But not one word about military spending. Ratner brought up the possibility of different budgetary cuts for controlling inflation. These included the stimulus bill, as well as “income replacement programs that would help Americans who still have jobs but have had their earnings cut significantly by the pandemic,” and “the $510 billion in aid to states and localities (including for education) should also be dramatically reduced” and also “an indirect bailout of multiemployer pension funds.” The article ends “Wasting precious dollars that could be better spent can’t possibly be worth the risk of igniting high inflation again.”

 

These statements not only represent the opinion of Steven Ratner, who represents the financial interests. It’s typical of the corporate media which refuses to raise in any meaningful way the issue of the military budget and that of related programs, which arguably take in over half of the federal budget. The subject is virtually taboo for the corporate media. You may even call their refusal to place such a critical issue on the table a form of censorship.