Ashton Carter: No Word of Peace

          Alice Slater, New York director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, breaks down Obama’s pick for the next Secretary of Defense (head of the U.S military), Ashton Carter.  She scratches the surface of this man’s past genuflections toward the weapons and defense industry.   The Senate approved his nomination 93 – 5, which demonstrates the obsequious, acquiescent, complacent, and no-questions-asked nature of the military-industrial-Congressional-complex.  Previously serving as the Pentagon’s chief arms buyer, Carter has advocated preemptively bombing North Korea, arming the Ukrainian government, and opposes shutting down Guantanamo Bay.  He has made tens of thousands of dollars from advocating war, pushes nuclear weapons production, and has consulted for defense corporations time and time again. Due to previous conflicts of interest, Cater required an ethics wavier to join the pro-war Obama administration.

         There is no word of peace from this man.  Please, for the love God, do not vote for any major party in the 2016 U.S National Elections. 

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