"Whether President Obama gets his second term or Mitt Romney enters the Oval Office, there’s a third candidate no one’s paying much attention to, and that candidate is guaranteed to be the one clear winner of election 2012: the U.S. military and our ever-surging national security state."

— William J. Astore, from TomDispatch
Reprinted in Utne Reader, September/October 2012 

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