War is like heroin to the corporate media: ratings and ad revenue skyrocket, and they get to be front and center of an exhilarating conflict. The CIA, Defense Dept., and other miscellaneous military and intelligence pepper these news stations with “ex” officials who push the pro-war line, attempting to mold public opinion into supporting a new war of aggression. War is an addiction of the powerful, whether among the corporate propaganda couriers, the puppet politicians, the weapons industry, the military, or now, Silicon Valley. “War is the health of the State.”
