The Weapons Industry Transformed

September 3, 2022 Leave a comment

by Jack Gilroy, September 3, 2022 Locally, we have two of the top ten weapons makers in the world, BAE Systems (#3 according to their website) and Lockheed Martin, the indisputable #1 weapons maker in the world. No other world culture comes close to our eagerness to dominate other cultures. We have over 800 military bases around the world and […]

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Droning On: Assassins-in-Chief and Their Brood

October 5, 2021 Leave a comment

by Tom Englehardt, published on TomDispatch, September 28, 2021 What a way to end a war! Apologies all around! We’re so damn sorry — or actually, maybe not! I’m thinking, of course, about CENTCOM commander General Kenneth F. McKenzie, Jr.’s belated apology for the drone assassination of seven children as the last act, or perhaps final war crime, in this […]

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