yes, my last comment was directed to the one above it.
here's my take on the thread title, "Left and Right Against the Military Industrial Complex":
Military powers fund military corporations which put taxpayer dollars into financier's pockets, impoverishing populations while subjecting us all to the horrors of war.
To make these private profits for themselves, military corporations need to keep sending rockets into space, bombs into other peoples' homes, along with military transports, drones, nuclear and chemical weapons.
To make these military instruments, they need to obtain what's left of the earth's oil, gas, uranium, and other minerals for fuel and for chemical and nuclear weaponry. Military powers like NATO and others use their conventional, nuclear, and chemical weapons directly in a global war on civilian populations, for the specific Stalin-like purpose of relocating people from valuable resource lands.
When resident populations are sufficiently moved, massacred, or otherwise subjugated, affiliated corporations can then go in and take the oil, gas, uranium, and other 'needed' resources. Those materials are then made into further military weaponry to keep the corporate war machine profits flowing into financier's pockets.
The military corporations and their governments use all kinds of crap spin through controlled media to try to convince audiences that they are acting honourably.
The reality is that we're in a run to the bottom of the ecological and ethical pit.
Populations of all the major powers need to step to the side, and put up blocks on the run.
we need to get ourselves grounded in the earth, for energy,
and find the answers blowing in the wind, and sparkling in the sun.
if we do so, we may prevent all major military powers from obtaining the means for perpetual war on the earth and on all of us.
can you imagine? no energy for warmongers, lots for us, and an earth that can breathe. maybe even get a chance to recuperate.
what a concept.