A Trillion Dollar War Machine Keeps Americans Poor and at War / William Hartung & Ben Freeman

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🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Quincy Institute scholars William Hartung and Ben Freeman join us to discuss their new book from Bold Type Books, "The Trillion Dollar War Machine: How Runaway Military Spending Drives America into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us at Home." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. Check out William and Ben's book here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/william-d-hartung/the-trillion-dollar-war-machine/9781645030638/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell Please rate and review This Is Hell! wherever you get your podcasts. It really helps the show ascend the algorithm to reach new listeners.

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0:00.0	Bigging down.
0:02.0	The water is with the...
0:09.0	...andus power and the...
0:11.0	...and... This is hell.
0:31.6	This is hell.
0:35.6	The future This is hell.
0:43.2	The future ain't what it used to be.
0:46.5	This is hell.
0:52.7	And remember when our future was one of peace and prosperity for all.
0:57.9	That we the people could actually benefit from a peace dividend?
1:00.8	Well, that was a very long time ago.
1:08.4	And what we've learned since then is, here in the U.S. of A, we can't have nice things like other nations.
1:09.7	So why don't we get to have stuff like free universal
1:13.0	health care? We're told such an expense is unaffordable despite being the wealthiest nation in the
1:18.1	history of the world. Yet somehow Rwanda can provide universal health care, but the United States
1:24.1	of America cannot, even though we are also told we are the greatest
1:28.4	nation in the history of the world.
1:32.3	What about universal education?
1:34.2	Another huge cost burden in the U.S. that is increasingly undermining any attempt at
1:38.4	affordability in our lives and is just frankly depressing.
1:43.3	Why do citizens of Guyana get free universal education, including
1:48.3	through graduate school? But here in the U.S., we go deep into debt long before graduation
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