It is always a challenge attempting to describe how sick and power mad are some of the elite who have taken up positions within the military-industrial-scientific complex.
Top-secret janitor. Pollster to the spies. Classified comic book artist. Any organization sufficiently large is bound to have the odd job opening within it.
Nearly everyone knows someone who gets paid by the Pentagon. That’s why it’s so hard to cut. The Department of Defense, with its 2.3 million workers, is the single largest employer in the United States. The defense industry, which is the main privat
No longer a turf war, the Pentagon and CIA work closely ... With the increase use of drone strikes as a powerful fighting force, the military is looking to get more involved in intelligence.
There's probably no group of companies more alarmed about going over the "fiscal cliff" of tax increases and spending cuts due to take effect next month than defense contractors.
Rand Paul's To Do List before officially running for president:
Visit is Israel (scheduled for January)
Make sure Military-Industrial Compex is funded (Check)
The Senate voted for a sweeping, $631 billion defense bill that calls for accelerating the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan and tightens sanctions on Iran. The vote was 98-0. Would authorize money for weapons, aircraft and ships
NATO foreign ministers will agree on Tuesday to send Patriot missiles to beef up Turkey's air defences and calm Turkey's fears that it could come under missile attack, possibly with chemical weapons, from Syria, diplomats said.
Turkey last month a
The pilot of the unarmed MQ-9 Reaper drone took off without permission from the control tower. One minute later, he yanked the wrong lever at his console, killing the engine without realizing why. As he tried to make an emergency landing, he forgot t
One of the biggest disasters to befall the world’s major arms companies was when, entirely without meaning to, the United States won the Cold War. . . The great appeal of the War on Terror is its self-perpetuating quality that guarantees this is one
Alliant Techsystems, the world’s largest ammunition maker, fended off BAE Systems to win the U.S. military’s biggest contract last month.
The $8.48 billion deal to upgrade and operate an Army ammunition factory in Missouri topped a list of more than
Turkey will imminently lodge an official request with NATO asking the military alliance to deploy Patriot missiles along its border with Syria to guard against violence spilling over, a senior Turkish foreign ministry official said on Wednesday.
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US Navy ships face the growing threat of small boat swarms used by terrorists, pirates or enemy countries. A possible counter that looks strangely similar except for the lack of human sailors — small robot boats armed with missiles.
Getting heavy stuff to locations far away, without spending a ton of money on fuel, and without the need for a runway is a dream of military planners and corporations alike.
More than 2,000 M-1 Abrams tanks are sitting in a parking lot in Herlong, California because of a disagreement between the U.S. Army, Congress and the military industrial complex.
The proposed merger of Europe’s biggest defense and aerospace contractors collapsed after European political leaders failed to agree on terms. The combination of London-based BAE Systems and Paris-based European Aeronautic Defence and Space would hav
The Navy is just getting started on its new aircraft carrier, a ship it swears it’s going to build under budget, despite years of evidence to the contrary. It’s the sort of shipbuilding project Mitt Romney plans if he wins the presidency.
It's estimated that, for defense and national security, the U.S. spends about one trillion dollars a year -- which amounts to more than 80 percent of this year's expected deficit. Candidates promising to spend even more ?
October 7 marked the 11th anniversary of the American invasion of Afghanistan. During the past 11 years, 2,000 American soldiers and untold thousands of Afghan's have been killed. The “surge” is over, and US officials insist that the mission was acc
This show went into overtime and Douglas was kind enough to get us enormous amounts of information regarding Demonized Weapons aka Dark Alchemy, Satanism and its power within the military, The Third Reich, The real winners and losers of WW2...
• http://www.rawstory.com, By Agence France-Presse
The United States is pushing Gulf countries to develop missile defense plans, amid what they see is a rising threat from Iran, US officials said Friday.
The U.S. nuclear arsenal, the most powerful but indiscriminate class of weapons ever created, is set to undergo the costliest overhaul in its history, even as the military faces spending cuts to its conventional arms programs at a time of fiscal cris
• http://www.nakedcapitalism.com, By Timothy Y. Fong
This may seem like a “now for something completely different” post, but this story about Blackwater and a much smaller miscreant is yet another window into our American two tier justice system. Plus you will learn something about gun laws.
Major defense contractors have confirmed they’ll send tens of thousands of employee layoff warnings shortly before Election Day, according to correspondence released Monday by Arizona Sen. John McCain.
McCain, the top Republican on the Senate Arme
"9/11" gave American politicians the unique opportunity to start the perfect war on behalf of their friends and patrons of the military industrial complex. The endless war: the “war on terror” without any geographic boundaries, time frame or even the
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