Comments on: Structures of Power and National Security http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/10/structures-of-power-and-national-security/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:13:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Ahsan Premee http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/10/structures-of-power-and-national-security/#comment-8254 Ahsan Premee Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:17:17 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/10/structures-of-power-and-national-security/#comment-8254 interview is very exclusive and informative for researcher and media person interview is very exclusive and informative for researcher and media person

]]> By: Barbara http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/10/structures-of-power-and-national-security/#comment-8248 Barbara Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:22:12 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/10/structures-of-power-and-national-security/#comment-8248 Once again, a third of Eisenhower's diagnostic term, "the military-industrial-congressional complex," is omitted (as when Ike spoke the words wishing to show courtesy at the time of succession, to the next president, --whom at the time everyone would have recognized as one of those most implicated by that third adjective, Kennedy having with Scoop Jackson perpetrated the "missile gap" hoax, a gargantuan, still continuing disaster). To verify the text of Eisenhower's speech, see '90s New York Review of Books article by then Washington d. of C.-based reporter Lars-Erik Nelsen. The chronic elision from this ever-repeated term, of a third of the understanding it so tellingly conveys, is a disastrous lacuna in our collective consciousness. Once again, a third of Eisenhower’s diagnostic term, “the military-industrial-congressional complex,” is omitted (as when Ike spoke the words wishing to show courtesy at the time of succession, to the next president, –whom at the time everyone would have recognized as one of those most implicated by that third adjective, Kennedy having with Scoop Jackson perpetrated the “missile gap” hoax, a gargantuan, still continuing disaster).

To verify the text of Eisenhower’s speech, see ’90s New York Review of Books article by then Washington d. of C.-based reporter Lars-Erik Nelsen.

The chronic elision from this ever-repeated term, of a third of the understanding it so tellingly conveys, is a disastrous lacuna in our collective consciousness.

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