A lunar military-industrial complex?

Bruce K. Gagnon coordinates the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. He has been writing about the US goal of establishing mining colonies on the Moon to extract helium-3, which can be used for fusion power on Earth. "Scientists have long been saying that the profits from helium-3 extraction will make the money made from oil exploration on Earth look like nothing in comparison."

Gagnon continues: "The Army has had plans since the early 1950's to set up military bases on the Moon. Scientists have long known that there exists an Earth-Moon gravity well. Whoever sits at the top of the well, with bases on the moon, will be able to literally control who can get on and off the planet Earth. So military bases on the Moon play a key role in the space 'control and domination' program outlined in the U.S. Space Command's 1997 document called Vision for 2020. It's hardly a coincidence that the NASA goal for establishing manned bases on the Moon is set for 2020."

And how to pay for it all? "The aerospace industry publication, Space News, years ago editorialized that they know they must come up with a funding source for their expensive space programs... They said they are sending their lobbyists to Washington to defund the 'entitlement programs.'" (That's Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare.)

Gagnon concludes: "The space industry has declared war on the poor and the working class. Which will it be, folks? Social progress or bases on the Moon?"