Army Troop Cuts – A Propaganda Ploy?

by | Jul 8, 2015

Press reports that the US Army would cut 40,000 troops are meant to terrify the American people into demanding an increase in military spending – even though the US spends more than all developed countries combined. The truth is US military spending is going to increase with or without those 40,000 troops and with or without the “sequester.” The US is spending itself into bankruptcy. Today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report on the false propaganda of a shrinking military:

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  • Daniel McAdams

    Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity and co-Producer/co-Host, Ron Paul Liberty Report. Daniel served as the foreign affairs, civil liberties, and defense/intel policy advisor to U.S. Congressman Ron Paul, MD (R-Texas) from 2001 until Dr. Paul’s retirement at the end of 2012. From 1993-1999 he worked as a journalist based in Budapest, Hungary, and traveled through the former communist bloc as a human rights monitor and election observer.

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