"When you put the United States and its military allies and hosts of its bases and its weapons customers together, well, it's a vast majority. It's way over three quarters of global military spending… You have Congress members openly bragging about how they're going to profit from the stock of weapons companies, just as they're escalating wars and absolutely shamelessly and refusing both parties in happy agreement to bring to the floor any bill that would ban stock ownership and trading by Congress members," Swanson explained.
"Well, we can use and promote independent and foreign media outlets. We can spread around shows like this one and others that allow voices that aren't allowed in the US corporate media. We can generate our own media. We can infiltrate the US corporate media with letters and phone calls and protest in lobbies. We can do what's being done to our shame and embarrassment in much greater numbers in Rome and London and Paris. We can we can protest US wars and military spending," the activist said, listing a few measures that could be used and calling on people to do what they can.