military-industrial complex
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From welfare to warfare: military Keynesianism
Warmongering has reached fever pitch in Europe. It all started with the US under Trump deciding that paying for the military ‘protection’ of European capitals from potential enemies was not worth it. Trump wants to stop the US paying for the bulk of the financing of NATO and providing its military might and he wants… Continue reading
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Orange Peace
In January 1961, in his farewell address, US president Dwight D. Eisenhower warned that, as a result of the Second World War and the ensuing Cold War, the United States had ‘been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions’. Continue reading
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Politics – the entertainment division of the military industrial complex
Tuesday, 26 November 2024 — MROnline Donald Trump, an entertainer paid for by the military industrial complex. (Photo: Gage Skidmore / Flickr) Originally published: rabble.ca on November 14, 2024 by Ole Hendrickson (more by rabble.ca) | (Posted Nov 25, 2024) Being from Baltimore, I take civic pride in its writers, including Edgar Allan Poe, H.L. Continue reading
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While Biden Gives Ukrainian Army “The Most Lethal Weapon,” War Profiteer BAE Systems Stock Soars
Sending Ukraine a $300 million shipment of powerful M-777 howitzers is a lobbying triumph for BAE Systems, one of the many war industry corporations fattening on the death and destruction of the Ukraine war Continue reading
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UFO Reports Are Fertilizer For Military Budgets
Since December 2019 the United States has a Space Force as one of eight branches of U.S. Armed Forces. Each of those branches has lots of higher ranking officer positions. All people who are put into those want a lucrative board seat at some weapon manufacturer when they retire. They will only get one if they manage… Continue reading
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The Best Intentions of Sir Ronald Cohen: Building the Crypto-Corrals of Social Investment
It’s a tangled web but the bottom line is that social-impact investing, given a big boost by the pandemic and the “Great Reset” planned in its wake, can be made to sound so good that it’s hard to conceive what a dangerous threat it poses: it only “works” by herding and caging. Continue reading
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The Ruling Class Wants Us To Accept War As Something That Will Never End
The ruling class of the U.S./NATO empire justifies the heinous actions of its military forces, the brutality of its internal police states, and the cruelty towards the poor of its neoliberal economic deprivation by claiming that everything it does is necessary to combat some grand evil. Whether this evil is Islam, or communism, or the… Continue reading
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India’s forever wars and forever warriors
The Washington-based Quincy Institute, arguably the most intellectually stimulating American think tank nowadays, in its compulsively readable publication Responsible Statecraft featured on Tuesday an investigative report titled Weapons biz bankrolls experts pushing to extend Afghan War, authored by Eli Clifton, noted expert and journalist on US foreign policy. Continue reading
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The Stubborn Truth About Employment and the Defense Industry by Nia Harris
A Marilyn has once again seduced a president. This time, though, it’s not a movie star; it’s Marillyn Hewson, the head of Lockheed Martin, the nation’s top defense contractor and the largest weapons producer in the world. In the last month, Donald Trump and Hewson have seemed inseparable. They “saved” jobs at a helicopter plant. They… Continue reading
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United Technologies – Raytheon Merger Is the Definition of Crony Capitalism
Trump opposes the merger of these two arms manufacturers, which would create the world’s largest such corporation, but why? Bill Black gives us the interesting answer and explores why these mergers are dangerous and on the rise Continue reading
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The US locomotive of world military spending By Manlio Dinucci
Every month of last year, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the federal government of the United States spent $250 per citizen. Continue reading
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The Military Industrial State Confronts Russia and China By Brian Cloughley
The swaggering arrogance of Washington’s Military-Industrial Complex never ceases to intrigue the rest of the world, much of which shrugs collective shoulders but has to acknowledge that the swaggering reflects the US National Defence Strategy which informs us that the military is going to concentrate on confronting Russia and China. Continue reading
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Risking Total Annihilation for the Sake of Profit – with Wilkerson and Jay (3/3)
Larry Wilkerson says the US government is raising the danger of nuclear war by spending more than a trillion dollars to upgrade the American nuclear arsenal, with no real objective other than money making – with host Paul Jay (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Convert Military to Green Production, or Perish – Daniel Ellsberg on RAI (13/13)
A massive reduction in ICBM’s and transforming the economy away from the military-industrial complex are prerequisites for our survival – says Daniel Ellsberg on Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay Continue reading
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Bipartisan panel: US must prepare for “horrendous,” “devastating” war with Russia and China By Andre Damon
A bipartisan commission appointed by Congress issued a lengthy report Tuesday backing the Pentagon’s plans to prepare for a “great-power” war against Russia, China, or both, making clear that the Trump administration’s belligerent policies are shared by the Democratic Party. Continue reading
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National Defense Strategy Commission Report Advises Trump To Boost Military Budget To Solve Problems Faced By US Armed Forces
US military superiority “has eroded to a dangerous degree,” with “grave and lasting” consequences unless Washington undertakes swift action to reverse the adverse effect by increasing the Pentagon’s funding, according to a new reported ordered by the Congress. Continue reading
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International relations: the calm before the storm? By Thierry Meyssan
All international problems are currently suspended, awaiting the results of the US mid-term elections. The partisans of the old international order are gambling on a change of majority in Congress and a rapid destitution of President Trump. If the man in the White House holds fast, the protagonists of the war against Syria will have… Continue reading
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Video: The Political Power of Weapons By Manlio Dinucci
European Markets and Union on alert, opposition on the attack, a reminder about the Constitution by the President of the Republic, all this because the government-planned financial manoeuvre, which has already been announced, would lead to a deficit of about 27 billion Euros. On the other hand, absolute silence from the government and the opposition… Continue reading
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Doomed Prospects for Achievement of UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 By Carla Stea
Funds Squandered on Military-Industrial Complex Are Indispensable for Success Criminal UN Security Council Authorized Military Actions and Sanctions are Gross Violation of Sustainable Development Goals and Obliterate all Hope For Attainment of SDGs Continue reading
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'The Nuclear Enterprise Is on Autopilot'
When it comes to nuclear weapons, our next guest explains, all the talk you hear about strategic considerations driving proliferation—how do we look tough with North Korea, and so on—is in a sense a distraction from what’s really going on. If you really want to know why the US keeps churning out nuclear warheads, follow… Continue reading
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