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Showing posts with label military-industrial complex. Show all posts
Showing posts with label military-industrial complex. Show all posts
Friday, March 27, 2020

Zero Hedge — Pentagon Fears Foreigners Will Buy Control Of US Defense Firms Amid Coronavirus Volatility

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The worm turns. Zero Hedge Pentagon Fears Foreigners Will Buy Control Of US Defense Firms Amid Coronavirus Volatility Tyler Durden
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Thursday, August 8, 2019

Sputnik International — NATO’s China Double-Think

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Ka-ching. The Western MIC is going for it. Sputnik International NATO’s China Double-Think
Tuesday, July 9, 2019

American Militarism Is Riding High — W. J. Astore

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What we’re not encouraged to do is to criticize or even to question America’s vast military establishment and its enormous power, even thou...
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Friday, May 24, 2019

Andrei Martyanov — Douglas Macgregor Hits It Out Of The Ball Park

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Douglas Macgregor is a military policy realist. He analyzes the US military and its operational strategy (in contrast with grand strategy...
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Thursday, May 23, 2019

Matthew Ehret — Trump Attacks Military Industrial Complex and Calls for Infrastructure Investments in the Middle East

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While Trump has too often accommodated this hive of neocons, his recent statements and repeated calls for cooperation with Russia and China...
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Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Col. Douglas Macgregor — NATO Is Not Dying. It’s a Zombie

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Why is NATO a zombie. According to Col. MacGregor, it fuels the military-industrial complex that lies at the heart of the US economy, so it ...
Thursday, December 20, 2018

Alan MacLeod — Our Poor, Defenseless Military Industrial Complex - Media decry ‘inadequate’ US military budget that rivals rest of world combined

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Any doubt what is driving the US economy (along with non-discretionary transfers like SS, Medicare and Medicaid)? Contrast military s...
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Saturday, November 17, 2018

Thomas Spoehr — Why the U.S. Military Is In Serious Trouble

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The report notes that the United States now faces five rising challenges—China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and transnational terrorism—yet ...
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Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Andrei Martyanov — Cutting Empire To Size, Or Yet Another "National Security" Crisis

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What passes for US military strategy. Reminiscence of the Future Cutting Empire To Size, Or Yet Another "National Security" Cr...
Friday, July 6, 2018

Caitlin Johnstone — Nation Horrified To Learn Child-Killing Death Merchants Have Racist Employee

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Caitlin goes after the military-industrial complex in general, and specifically Northrup Grumman. The "racist employee" is just ...
Friday, May 25, 2018

Here's When China Will Win The Arms Race With The US, And How BofA Is Trading It

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Spoiler: 2038 or before. If the world is still around then. Zero Hedge Here's When China Will Win The Arms Race With The US, And How B...
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Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Jason Ditz — Russia’s Military Spending Declines; US Now a Third of Global Spending

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Worldwide military spending was slightly up over the last year, with the US amounting to more than a third (35%) of global military spendin...
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Thursday, April 19, 2018

Reuters — Trump launches effort to boost U.S. weapons sales abroad

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The Trump administration rolled out a long-awaited overhaul of U.S. arms export policy on Thursday aimed at expanding sales to allies, sayin...
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Thursday, March 22, 2018

Dave Majumdar — Could America Stop a Cruise Missile or Hypersonic Weapons Attack by Russia or China?

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Arms race on. Defense industry, a euphemism for the military industrial complex, salivates. As DefSec Mattis admits, the US cannot stop a...
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Saturday, March 3, 2018

Dave Majumdar — Why is Russia Building Nuclear Powered Cruise Missiles? The Answer: “Capacity”

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I would estimate that there is a certain amount of truth to this, but the author is looking at Russia through American eyes and seeing Rus...
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Friday, January 26, 2018

Eric Zuesse — Trump Now Increases ‘Defense’ Budget 37% Above Obama’s

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The Washington Post headlined on January 26th, “Trump plans to ask for $716 billion for national defense in 2019 — a major increase” , and ...
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Monday, January 15, 2018

Rob Smith — Conflict costs the global economy $14 trillion a year

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The cost represent the use of real resources that could have been put to use constructively to address the world's problems, many of whi...
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Monday, December 11, 2017

Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan — Profit warning: there will be blood

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As we show in our recent research note ‘Blood and Oil in the Orient, Redux (2017)’ , the Weapondollar-Petrodollar Coalition might no longe...
Friday, September 22, 2017

Asia Unhedged — Xi stresses integrated military, civilian development

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During a meeting of the Central Commission for Integrated Military and Civilian Development (CCIMCD) on Friday, Chinese President Xi Jinpin...
Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Paul Robinson — Missile non-defence

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I’m going to say it straight. The military industrial complex is a system of scandalous profligacy and inefficiency, the primary effect of ...
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