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『戦争による利益追求、および米国での収入と富の集中』（米国のイスラム系経済学者による論文）
とにかく戦争は『もうかる商売』なのです。米国アイオワ州のドレイク大学教授で経済学者のProf. Ismael Hossein-zadehによる、戦争と一部の者達の収入との関係を分析した興味深い論文がGlobal Researchによって公表されています。
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http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=HOS20070412&articleId=5368
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War Profiteering and the Concentration of Income and Wealth in America
Escalating Military Spending
by Prof. Ismael Hossein-zadeh
Global Research, April 13, 2007
How Escalation of War and Military Spending Are Used as Disguised or Roundabout Ways to Reverse the New Deal and Redistribute National Resources in Favor of the Wealthy.
Escalating Military Spending: Income Redistribution in Disguise
Critics of the recent U.S. wars of choice have long argued that they are all about oil. "No Blood for Oil" has been a rallying cry for most of the opponents of the war.
It can be demonstrated, however, that there is another (less obvious but perhaps more critical) factor behind the recent rise of U.S. military aggressions abroad: war profiteering by Pentagon contractors.
Frequently invoking dubious "threats to our national security and/or interests," these beneficiaries of war dividends, the military–industrial complex and related businesses whose interests are vested in the Pentagon’s appropriation of public money, have successfully used war and military spending to justify their lion’s share of tax dollars and to disguise their strategy of redistributing national income in their favor.
This cynical strategy of disguised redistribution of national resources from the bottom to the top is carried out by a combination of (a) drastic hikes in the Pentagon budget, and (b) equally drastic tax cuts for the wealthy. As this combination creates large budget deficits, it then forces cuts in non-military public spending as a way to fill the gaps that are thus created. As a result, the rich are growing considerably richer at the expense of middle– and low–income classes.
Despite its critical importance, most opponents of war seem to have given short shrift to the crucial role of the Pentagon budget and its contractors as major sources of war and militarism―a phenomenon that the late President Eisenhower warned against nearly half a century ago. Perhaps a major reason for this oversight is that critics of war and militarism tend to view the U.S. military force as primarily a means for imperialist gains―oil or otherwise.
The fact is, however, that as the U.S. military establishment has grown in size, it has also evolved in quality and character: it is no longer simply a means but, perhaps more importantly, an end in itself―an imperial force in its own right. Accordingly, the rising militarization of U.S. foreign policy in recent years is driven not so much by some general/abstract national interests as it is by the powerful special interests that are vested in the military capital, that is, war industries and war–related businesses.
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著者のIsmael Hossein-Zadeh, Ph.Dを紹介するサイト（ドレイク大学の公式サイト）
http://www.cbpa.drake.edu/hossein-zadeh/default.htm
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