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The military budget is simply an enormous pork barrel of special privilege, the privileges taking the form of windfall profits, of no-risk profits and, most importantly, of enormous outlays of capital supplied by the Pentagon to arms contractors.

Walter Karp

The most esteemed journalists are precisely the most servile. For it is by making themselves useful to the powerful that they gain access to the "best" sources.

Walter Karp

By their subjugation of the press, the political powers in America have conferred on themselves the greatest of political blessings — Gyges' ring of invisibility. And they have left the American people more deeply baffled by their own country's politics than any people on earth. Our public realm lies steeped in twilight, and we call that twilight news.'

Walter Karp

Walter Karp

Walter Karp

Born: May 14, 1934

Died: July 19, 1989 (aged 55)

Bio: Walter B. Karp was an American journalist, historian, and writer who published in magazines such as American Heritage and Horizon, and was also a contributing editor for Harper's Magazine, which re-published some of his political history books in 2003.

Known for:

Indispensable enemies (1973)
The politics of war (1979)
Liberty under siege (1988)
Charles Darwin and The Origin of Species (1968)

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