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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
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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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The Pentagon Budget as Corporate Welfare for Weapons Makers
By William Hartung (with introduction by TomDispatch) Source: TomDispatch.com What company gets the most money from the U.S. government? The answer: the weapons maker Lockheed Martin. As the Washington Post recently reported, of its $51 billion in sales in 2017, … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, society, State Crime, war, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Afghanistan, Corporate Welfare, Defense Spending, Domestic Spending, Donald Trump, economic crisis, empire, F-35, geopolitics, iraq, Jim Mattis, Libya, Lockheed Martin, Militarism, Military Contractors, military spending, Pakistan, Pentagon Budget, Reagonomics, Somalia, Syria, Tax Giveaways, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers, Yemen
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The U.S. Military Suffers from Affluenza
Showering the Pentagon with Money and Praise By William J. Astore Source: TomDispatch.com The word “affluenza” is much in vogue. Lately, it’s been linked to a Texas teenager, Ethan Couch, who in 2013 killed four people in a car accident … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, Militarization, military spending, society, State Crime, war, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Affluenza, Defense Department, Defense Spending, empire, Ethan Couch, F-35, Homeland Security, Military Budget, military spending, Nuclear Weapons, Pentagon Spending, war on terror
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Desultory Heroics 