military industry complex

Into the Quagmire with Donald Rumsfeld
As President Ronald Reagan’s special envoy to the Middle East, Rumsfeld travelled to Baghdad to shake hands with Saddam Hussein and assure him of US support in the eight-year war that the Iraqi dictator had launched against Iran. His camaraderie with Sa ...[Read more]
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Biden’s Defense Budget Is a Big Win for Hypersonic Weapons Contractors
The US' largest defense corporations can breathe a sigh of relief: President Joe Biden’s first budget proposal not only continues his predecessor’s commitment to hypersonic weapons, but it’s also seeking a major increase in government spending. Whil ...[Read more]
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Pentagon and Tax Cheats Already Cost Taxpayers Far More Than Biden’s Job Plan
Over the past 20 years, the U.S. has spent $6.4 trillion on wars that have served only to further destabilize the Middle East, cause hundreds of thousands of deaths and enrich military contractors. If that money had been spent on infrastructure and clean ...[Read more]
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All 10 GOP senators behind skimpy COVID relief offer happily voted for $740 billion military budget
Each of the 10 Republican senators who threw their support behind a widely criticized $600 billion coronavirus relief proposal on Sunday recently approved a whopping $740 billion military budget, a vote progressive lawmakers are highlighting as further ev ...[Read more]
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Saudi crown prince got everything he wanted from his trip to the U.S.
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman (known as MBS) has had what can only be considered a spectacularly successful visit to the United States — especially after a President Donald Trump approved a $1.3 billion artillery deal on Thursday. As ...[Read more]
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Kochs and ALEC Behind Criminalization of Dissent Bills in Five States
Iowa, Ohio, Oklahoma,Wyoming, Minnesota and Louisiana have introduced or passed legislation to criminalize environmental dissent. There is evidence that bill mill organizations such as ALEC and the bipartisan group Council of State Governments (CSG) had t ...[Read more]
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Holodomor Hoax: Joseph Stalin’s Crime That Never Took Place
Official Soviet Ukrainian primary sources show that the 1928-29 famine, caused by natural disaster, mainly drought, was very serious, and Ukraine received more aid from the Soviet government, than the Kremlin sent to other parts of the USSR. This obviousl ...[Read more]
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In Scathing Attack, CIA Director Brennan Warns Trump To Watch What He Says
In a truly remarkable bit of honesty and candor regarding the U.S. national-security establishment, new Senate minority leader Charles Schumer has accused President-elect Trump of “being really dumb.”… for taking on the CIA and questioning its concl ...[Read more]
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