The Pentagon Budget as Corporate Welfare for Weapons Makers | Tomgram: William Hartung
In translation, they’re telling Congress that they have more money than even they can spend in the time allotted.
The Pentagon Budget as Corporate Welfare for Weapons Makers | Tomgram: William Hartung
In translation, they’re telling Congress that they have more money than even they can spend in the time allotted.
Polly Mann | Of Cabbages and Kings
There is no question that the United States has the biggest, strongest, costliest armaments in the world and it devises the rules by which other nations use or display their ships, troops, and arms.
Polly Mann | Of Cabbages and Kings
There is no question that the United States has the biggest, strongest, costliest armaments in the world and it devises the rules by which other nations use or display their ships, troops, and arms.
Rockets’ Red Glare and Bombs Bursting in Air by John LaForge
Every child killed or maimed by US-made weapons inevitably creates enemies among survivors.
Washington Post Keeps Running Op-Eds by Lobbyists Pushing Their Clients’ Weapons
Weapons manufacturers Lockheed Martin and Raytheon were promoted, with articles naming North Korea as a particular threat and reason to augment weapons systems.
Polly Mann | Top of the Charts
How have the five largest U.S. defense firms fared over the past five years? Their stock is up an average of 220 percent.
Jonathan Marshall: US Arms Makers Invest in a New Cold War
As Lee Fang observed recently in The Intercept, “The escalating anti-Russian rhetoric in the U.S. presidential campaign comes in the midst of a major push by military contractors to position Moscow as a potent enemy that must be countered with a drastic increase in military spending by NATO countries.”
John LaForge | Undeterred: Amid Terror Attacks in Europe, US H-bombs Still Deployed There
William Hartung, a Fellow at the Center for International Policy, reports that major weapons contractors like Bechtel and Boeing reap huge profits from weapons upgrades. Lockheed Martin “gets two bites at the apple”...
Wm. D. Hartung: How Not to Audit the Pentagon
Why has waste at the Pentagon been so hard to rein in? The answer is, in a sense, not complicated: the military-industrial complex profits from waste. Closer scrutiny of waste could mean not just cheaper spare parts, but serious questions about whether cash cows like the F-35 are needed at all. An accurate head count of the hundreds of thousands of private contractors employed by the Pentagon would reveal that a large proportion of them are doing work that is either duplicative or unnecessary.
Lee Fang: Military Contractors Behind New Pressure Group Targeting Presidential Candidates
A look at the list of people and military manufacturing corporations involved says it all.
Lobbying: Statistics and Trends, especially Defense
Center for Responsive Politics OpenSecrets.org Editor's Note: A good website to know about. A lot of data on lobbying available. Lobbying Database In addition to campaign contributions to elected officials and candidates, companies, labor unions, and other organizations spend billions of dollars each year to lobby Congress and federal agencies. Some special interests More