At last Big Media looks at Wounded Warrior Scam


Screen Shot 2016-01-27 at 7.46.24 AMCBS exposé a surprise, albeit a welcome one. It does not denounce of course the biggest scam of all (of which it is an important part) the selling of imperialist wars to a bamboozled population.

We did our own exposé back in June (2015), see this:

Maudlin sentimentality and lies covering up the tragedy of American soldiers

WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT

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Marketing wars, indirectly, on the backs of the wounded——and getting rich in the process. Click here to read it. 

Incidentally, the proliferation of these goody-two-shoes “charities” is one more manifestation of the sickness at the heart of American society, its “privatism syndrome”, whereby the government, an entity that should discharge these tasks, doesn’t, opening the field to crooks happy to exploit the pervasive ignorance and jingoism afflicting this nation.

Former Wounded Warrior employees accuse charity of wasting millions

CBS News investigation: How is Wounded Warrior Project spending donations? 

Published on Jan 26, 2016

In a CBS News investigation, more than 40 former employees of the Wounded Warrior Project accuse the charity of wasting millions of donated dollars on luxury hotels, lavish conferences and expensive meals for staff. The charity has defended its spending. Chip Reid reports.


Another version of the report.