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From pharmaceutical companies to furniture makers, book publishers to office supply stores, tens of thousands of corporations work with the Department of Defense. Their influence is so complete that it is close to impossible to opt out—even zealous anti-corporate types read books, and publishers Houghton Mifflin, Random House, and Warner Books are all DoD contractors.
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NT: Yeah, as I mention in the book, unless you're a very committed anarcho-primitivist, it's almost impossible for an American to really unplug from the complex. It's just so invasive. It pops up in so many places—Christian bookstores in Mississippi, or BBQ joints in Louisiana—and these companies don't advertise it. Unless you're combing the Pentagon's list of contractors, it's almost impossible to tell how deep the rabbit hole goes.
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The DoD has never undergone an audit. In 2004 it actually pledged to undergo a full audit by 2007, but that deadline came and went, and then they moved it to 2016. No one, not even the DoD, thinks they'll actually be able to pass it in 2016. So it will be nearly a decade until the Pentagon fails an audit, and passing one—no one has any idea when that will happen.
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It's not so much that they can shut down research as the fact that they account for such a large percentage of federal funding for a number of critical fields. For example, The Pentagon provides over 60 percent of available funding for electrical engineering research. Over 50 percent for computer science. 40 percent for metallurgy and metal engineering. Over 30 percent for oceanography. In fields like that, where they control that much of the research budget, researchers naturally have to tailor what they study around the dollars that are available. Conversely, maybe there's something you want to look into, but there's no federal money for it.
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NT: I couldn't give you a number, but the military operates a tremendous number of websites. They have their own sites, but they're also operating sites that look like civilian sites. They have recruiting sites that look like they're designed to give career advice to teenagers, and they mention asking a guidance counselor to take a certain type of test. What they don't tell you is that it's the armed forces entrance exam.
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They operate some websites for overseas audiences that look like news portals, but are actually DoD propaganda sites. You have to search the fine print in one portion of the site to find that it's created by the Pentagon.
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