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As the Cold War was prolonged by the CIA/MIC for their own profit, the foreign policy pundits existed to justify the party line of the evil Soviet intentions. Many of the pundits were funded by the CIA/MIC. Now that the Cold War is officially over, these folks are still harping the party line, one that involves lots of expensive hardware and can be potentially profitable to their benefactors.
With the major media either owned directly by GE or beholing to it through advertising (including NPR). That is why Chomsky will never be heard from, because he is dogmatically opposed to solutions involving more fighter jets, the engines of which are made by GE.
Who does fund the AEI, or Hudson, or Manhattan, or Brookings? At a time when the NYT is cutting news jobs to save money, who pays for Tommy Friedman to fly first class all over the world? He's given a venue like no other. Who thinks what he writes is of so much value?
