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Tag Archives: Defense Contractors
Guns for Hire: No, the Government Shouldn’t Be Using the Military to Police the Globe
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, Neocons, Oligarchy, Social Control, society, State Crime, surveillance state, war, war on terror
Tagged American Empire, Boeing, Deep State, Defense Contractors, Dystopia, empire, endless wars, fascism, geopolitics, imperialism, military-industrial complex, national infrastructure, Neocons, President Obama, Saudi Arabia, surveillance state, Totalitarianism, war, war on terror, war profiteers
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War Profiteers and the Demise of the US Military-Industrial Complex
By Dmitry Orlov Source: Club Orlov Within the vast bureaucratic sprawl of the Pentagon there is a group in charge of monitoring the general state of the military-industrial complex and its continued ability to fulfill the requirements of the national … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, Neocons, Oligarchy, society, State Crime, war, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Afghanistan, Arms Trade, BAE Systems, Boeing, DARPA, Defense Contractors, Defense Spending, EBITDA, General Dynmics, geopolitics, INDPOL, Iran, Lockheed Martin, military-industrial complex, North Korea, Northrop Grumman, Nuclear Weapons, Raytheon, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, The Pentagon, Turkey, US DOD, war, War Criminals, war profiteers, Yemen
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Bust the Trust: Now is the Time to Break Up Amazon
By Andy Laties with additional reporting by Sander Hicks Source: The New York Megaphone Standing at the cash register at an Upper West Side independent bookstore I used to run, I once noted the frequent passage of cars painted all … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, CIA, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Inequality, media, Neoliberalism, news, Social Control, society, Technology
Tagged Amazon, antitrust, Bookstores, CIA, corporate media, DC lobbyists, Defense Contractors, Economics, HQ2, ICE, JEDI, Jeff Bezos, Monopoly, NSA, Seattle, Small Business, spies
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The Military Industrial Complex Strikes Again: War Spending Will Bankrupt America
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “Why throw money at defense when everything is falling down around us? Do we need to spend more money on our military (about $600 billion this year) than the next seven countries … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, Neocons, police state, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged American Empire, Defense Contractors, Donald Trump, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, empire, financial crisis, geopolitics, imperialism, Militarism, military spending, military-industrial complex, National Security State, Pentagon, police state, surveillance state, Totalitarianism, Uri Friedman, war, war profiteers
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