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Tag Archives: Defense Budget
Our Real National Security Budget
$2 Trillion, Here We Come. By Andrew Cockburn Source: Spoils of War The Biden Administration has just published its proposed budget, generating copious commentary, much of it displaying a commensurate degree of misunderstanding, especially regarding our gargantuan national security spending. … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, CIA, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, FBI, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, Neocons, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy, war
Tagged Corruption, Deep State, Defense Budget, Department of Energy, Dystopia, Economics, empire, FBI, Geoppolitics, imperialism, Joe Biden, military spending, military-industrial complex, National Defense Authorization Act, National Security, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers, Winslow Wheeler
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$850 Billion Chicken Comes Home to Roost.
War Reveals U.S. Military’s Longtime Disinterest in War. By Andrew Cockburn Source: Spoils of War Watching a recent video of Ukrainian troops scrambling out of a U.S.-supplied Bradley armored fighting vehicle just after it hit a mine, I remembered how hard the … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Corporate Welfare, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, NATO, news, society, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged cluster bombs, Corporate Welfare, Defense Budget, empire, F-35, geopolitics, HIMARS, imperialism, Jake Sullivan, Jen Psaki, Joe Biden, military spending, military-industrial complex, Russia, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, war, War Criminals, war profiteers
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PRIGOZHIN’S FOLLY
By Seymour Hersh Source: Mint Press News The Biden administration had a glorious few days last weekend. The ongoing disaster in Ukraine slipped from the headlines to be replaced by the “revolt,” as a New York Times headline put it, of Yevgeny … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, corporate news, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, NATO, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Antony Blinken, corporate media, Defense Budget, geopolitics, Joe Biden, military-industrial complex, NATO, propaganda, Psyops, Russia, Thomas Frank, Ukraine, Vladimir Odintsov, Vladimir Putin, Wagner Group, war, Yevgeny Prigozhin
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The Impending Economic Collapse – A Cause of Current Conflict
By Phil Butler Source: New Eastern Outlook Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has called on BRICS nations to create an alternative to replace the dollar in foreign trade. Other experts suggest President Joe Biden’s policies will destroy America’s middle … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Deep State, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged American hegemony, bond market, Brazil, BRICS, China, currency reserve, Defense Budget, Economic Collapse, Economics, empire, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, geopolitics, gold standard, IMF, imperialism, Joe Biden, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, MIC, military spending, military-industrial complex, Russia, US Dollar, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers
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Killing Democracy in America
By William J. Astore Source: Strategic Culture Foundation The phrase “thinking about the unthinkable” has always been associated with the unthinkable cataclysm of a nuclear war, and rightly so. Lately, though, I’ve been pondering another kind of unthinkable scenario, nearly as nightmarish … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, Neocons, Oligarchy, society, State Crime, war, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Afghanistan, Crisis, Defense Budget, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, military-industrial complex, Pandemic, Peace, perpetual war, terrorism, United States, Vietnam War, war
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The Pentagon’s Massive Accounting Fraud Exposed
How US military spending keeps rising even as the Pentagon flunks its audit. By Dave Lindorff Source: Information Clearing House On November 15, Ernst & Young and other private firms that were hired to audit the Pentagon announced that they … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, society, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Afghanistan, Catherine Austin Fitts, Charles Grassley, Chief Financial Officers Act, Defense Budget, Department of Defense, DOD, Donald Rumsfeld, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Government Accountability Office, Mark Skidmore, military spending, Military Waste, Money Laundering, Patrick Shanaha, Pentagon Audit, State Crime, war
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“The Richest Nation On Earth” Why Are Many Americans Broke?
By Timothy Gatto Source: OpEdNews.com I’m going to talk about some things that many people take for granted and that most writers not will write about. I’m going to throw a lot of information and figures out in this article … Continue reading
Posted in Conspiracy, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Militarization, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged 9/11, arms race, California Fires, Cold War, Defense Budget, Directed Energy Weapons, Economics, economy, empire, financial crisis, imperialism, Infrastructure, Militarism, military spending, Poverty, Russia, war
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