Chris Hedges: The Democrats Are Now the War Party
This lust for war is dangerous, pushing us into a potential war with Russia and, perhaps later, with China — each a nuclear power. It is also economically ruinous.
Reining In the Pentagon, by Mandy Smithberger and William Hartung
"It’s estimated that, in the decades to come, more than 1,700 U.S. military installations worldwide may be impacted by sea-level rise. Future rounds of base closings, both domestic and global, should be planned now with the impact of climate change in mind."
Democracy Now! America’s #1 Weapons Salesman: Trump Promotes U.S. Arms Manufacturers & Weakens Export Rules
Reuters reveals that the new initiative will provide guidelines that could allow more countries to be granted faster deal approvals, and will call on Cabinet officials to help close deals between foreign governments and U.S. defense contractors. https://youtu.be/1F_HG4jrWac Democracy Now! Published on Apr 18, 2018 https://democracynow.org - A new exposé by Reuters reveals how More
Democracy Now! America’s #1 Weapons Salesman: Trump Promotes U.S. Arms Manufacturers & Weakens Export Rules
Reuters reveals that the new initiative will provide guidelines that could allow more countries to be granted faster deal approvals, and will call on Cabinet officials to help close deals between foreign governments and U.S. defense contractors. https://youtu.be/1F_HG4jrWac Democracy Now! Published on Apr 18, 2018 https://democracynow.org - A new exposé by Reuters reveals how More
Guns Before Country | Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill
Lobbyists, politicians and weapons manufacturers are the only beneficiaries of the massacre in Las Vegas.
Guns Before Country | Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill
Lobbyists, politicians and weapons manufacturers are the only beneficiaries of the massacre in Las Vegas.
Jason Ditz | Congress Wants Another $1 Trillion To ‘Reboot’ The Military
This trillion dollars easily breaks the budget on already prohibitively high military spending, and it’s just one of many schemes likely to be adopted.
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”...
Mark Fiore: Death & Destruction, Inc (animated cartoon)
Fiore: It’s nothing new that the United States is the biggest arms dealer in the world, I just think it’s worth noting that we have a hand in nearly every war currently under way. What looks like crazy countries battling over religion, politics or resources far away from our shores, is closer to home when you peel back the layers to find out who is supplying those weapons.
US Weapons Exporters Lead World in War Profiteering
The U.S., further, is the top profiteer from rising conflict across the Middle East, accounting for $8.4 billion in exports to this region in 2014, compared to $6 billion the previous year. Meanwhile, U.S. allies in the expanding war against ISIS are boosting their weapons imports significantly.