Noam Chomsky: Democracy & Media Part 6 – Pentagon Budget, War on Drugs (1994)

November 1, 1994 www.amazon.com Watch the full lecture: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com William Stuart Symington (June 26, 1901 — December 14, 1988) was a businessman and political figure from Missouri. He served as the first Secretary of the Air Force from 1947 to 1950 and was a Democratic United States Senator from Missouri from 1953 to 1976. A black budget is a budget that is secretly collected from the overall income of a country, a corporation, a society of any form, a national department, and so on. A black budget usually covers expenses related to military research. The budget is kept secret for national security reasons. Philip Schneider claimed that the alleged “Dulce Base” in the US state of New Mexico is run by such a budget. Many other programs such as Area 51 in Groom Lake, Nevada, and many experimental or covert military programs as well are said to be run by black budgets. The United States Department of Defense has a black budget it uses to fund expenditures, called black projects, it does not want to disclose publicly. The annual cost of the United States Department of Defense black budget was estimated at billion in 2008 but was increased to an estimated billion in 2009. It is claimed that the black budget can be determined by adding up all US government expenditure listed in the budget and subtracting that amount from the total budget. The inference is that the black budget is included in the total budget amount but is not listed in the budget …