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Military Industrial Complex

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Tom Watkins, a retired Navy officer, Times Argus

If a corporation wants to have an effect on a congressional election, it can spend money on any candidate, in any state it wants. Congressmen average 79 percent of their fundraising from sources outside their own districts. This gives corporations th

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Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk

Most Americans are probably unaware that over the past two weeks the US has launched at least eight drone attacks in Yemen, in which dozens have been killed. It is the largest US escalation of attacks on Yemen in more than a decade.

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Jim Hightower

These corporate predators are deploying an army of lobbyists to Congress to target what they see as a booming market. "Border security!" is their battle cry. These profiteers have already stuffed the Senate's immigration bill with $46 billion for mor

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Daily Paul.com

Has anybody made the (possible) connection of the death of Michael Hastings, a wanted man by the military industrial complex for his expose that ended General McChrystal's career, and Barnaby Jack,.....

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http://www.globalresearch.ca, By Eilat Maoz

War in Israel has become a constant source of profit, with the West Bank and Gaza Strip used as experimental sites for arms dealers backed up by intellectuals. These are the protagonists of ‘The Lab,’ a new film by Yotam Feldman. In its exceptional i

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http://chrisinmaryville.net/

One of the biggest failings of conservatives over the years, and especially since the end of the Cold War, has been the failure to understand that the military is big government too. It is full of waste, and much larger than it should be. Some wil

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Joseph Kishore, Global Research

Microsoft worked with the NSA to develop procedures to get around the company’s own encryption mechanisms, allowing unfettered access to its Outlook.com service, which includes Hotmail, Messenger and other widely used programs. It also collaborated w

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Emily Masters, Independent

According to the Project on Government Oversight, $300 billion a year is now spent on a “shadow government of private contractors.” At the center of this arrangement is an interlocking web of current and former high-level government officials, major

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howstuffworks.com

If you've seen James Bond or Jason Bourne on the big screen, you might think you know a thing or two about international espionage.

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StrategyPage.com

What it comes down to is that the politicians want to keep the only American tank manufacturing plant open. It's all about political posturing and getting reelected. But the army wants to spend its shrinking budgets on things that will save lives.

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northsunm32, AllVoices

It's what in Washington we call an iron triangle, you have an alliance between the private sector (the defense contractors), the executive branch (the Pentagon) and the legislative branch. The result is a budget "that is packed to the gills with weap

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