On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Chuck Spinney, a former military analyst at the US Department of Defense and author of ‘Defense Facts of Life: The Plans/Reality Mismatch’, otherwise known as the Spinney Report, which exposed the high levels of financial waste pursuing costly weapons systems at the Pentagon. He discusses his job at the Pentagon, the killing of the movement to reform the Pentagon and make it more financially accountable, the extremely costly projects of the Pentagon going on right now that the US public will be ‘paying back for 80 years’, the propaganda over the US creating an ‘Arsenal of Democracy’ amid the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, which has instead resulted in ‘unilateral disarmament at an even higher cost’, and much more.
