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Trump’s Golden Dome: Star Wars is back

Bruce Gagnon is coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. He offers his own reflections on organizing and the state of America’s declining empire….

Saturday, May 24, 2025, https://space4peace.blogspot.com/2025/05/trumps-golden-dome-star-wars-is-back.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Today the Military Industrial Complex is marching towards world dominance through space technology on behalf of global corporate interests. To understand how and why the space program will be used to fight all future wars on Earth from space, it’s important to understand how the public has been misled about the origins and true purpose of the space program.  

Trump calls for a renewal of Ronald Reagan’s 1980’s vision of SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative), popularly called Star Wars. The program is a massive boondoggle in the works. Early estimates are that Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ would cost from $500 billion to trillions of dollars. The recipients of this largess would be weapons corporations like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Space X.

Major cutbacks in social and environmental programs will be required to help fund this insanity. 

Golden Dome would spur a new space weapons arms race that will destabilize our planet and beyond.

This documentary Arsenal of Hypocrisy features Global Network Coordinator Bruce Gagnon, Noam Chomsky and Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell talking about the dangers of moving the arms race into space.  

The one-hour production includes archival footage of Nazi rocket tech brought to U.S. after WW2, Pentagon documents, and clearly outlines the U.S. plan to “control and dominate” space and the Earth below.  

The video spells out the dangers of the Bush-era “Nuclear Systems Initiative” that will expand the use of nuclear power in space by building Project Prometheus — the nuclear rocket.  

Mitchell, the 6th man to walk on the Moon, warns that a war in space would create massive bits of space junk that would create a mine field surrounding the Earth making it virtually impossible to launch anything into the heavens. Mitchell calls space a fragile environment that must be protected. 

Noam Chomsky talks about how the U.S. intends to use space technology to control the Earth and reminds the viewer that the U.S. has refused for many years to negotiate a global ban on weapons in space at the United Nations. He also speaks about the role of the media in suppressing this important issue.  

The video also contains archival sound of President Dwight Eisenhower in 1961 warning the American people about the power of the military industrial complex.  

Arsenal of Hypocrisy was produced in 2003 by filmmaker Randy Atkins from Gainesville, Florida. It is still highly relevant today.

The video was featured at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival 2004.

May 28, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | space travel, weapons and war