Pentagon, Big Pharma: Drug Troops to Numb Them to Horrors of War

http://alternet.org/healthwellness/72956/?page=1

"The DoD is flirting with the idea of medicating soldiers to desensitize them to combat trauma -- will an army of unfeeling monsters result?"

This is a prime example of the "disaster-industrial complex" that Naomi Klein talks about in her book, The Shock Doctrine - a complex that is rooted in the for-profit interests that are controlling the workings of government. When we can publicly finance our democratic process, the public, as owners of their government, can ensure that the Pentagon and big Pharma are not in cahoots in finding ways to profit off of disaster and destruction.

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