The "military/congressional/industrial complex" is so entrenched that it is virtually taboo to even discuss it in the media. We spend far more than any other country in the world on military -- almost as much as all the rest of the world combined. Rather than buying what is needed, we buy systems that contractors want us to buy -- such as ships, submarines, planes, tanks, etc., more appropriate for fighting the USSR than terrorists.
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News The state of the military-industrial complex is strong: War may dwindle, But MIC will Never slow.
05-24-2012
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William Collins, Minuteman
The military-industrial complex remains robust. Its employment is huge, its profits gigantic, its salaries staggering. If you’ve been listening to the Republicans in Congress, you may have thought that food stamps were busting our budget. Well, no.
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News Devil's bargain
05-23-2012
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toledoblade.com
Attempts to reduce the federal deficit are supposedly Congress' priority. But the military budget the House passed last week gives the lie to that notion. Even though they agreed to do so last year, Republicans -- and some Democrats -- can't bring th
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News Drones of Its Own
05-21-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org
Part of its 'Allied Ground Surveillance' system, the five Global Hawk UAVs will cost $1.7 Billion
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News U.S. House Defies Obama With $554 Billion Defense Bill
05-18-2012
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Roxana Tiron, Bloomberg
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a $554 billion defense bill that rejects Pentagon proposals to curtail or slow weapons programs, bans same-sex marriages on military bases and backs indefinite detention without trial of terrorism suspects.
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News Civics 101: Cutting Defense Means Not Voting for $642.5 Billion for US Military
05-19-2012
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commondreams, by Carolyn Eisenberg and Gael Murphy
Some readers probably heard on the news how the Democrats were hopping mad when the House Republicans voted recently to overturn the “sequester” on the Pentagon budget, enacted at the end of the year as part of the deficit reduction deal.
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News The spectacle of terror and its vested interests: entrapment feeds a $$Mn surveillance industry
05-9-2012
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Naomi Wolf, Guardian UK
What the FBI and CIA and the Pentagon are up against is that people – including Americans – are waking up to the fact that there would be no enemy if we weren't manufacturing new terrorists by taking out civilians in Pakistan, Yemen and Afghanistan.
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News Pentagon to expand cybersecurity program for defense contractors
05-11-2012
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Washington Post
The Pentagon is expanding and making permanent a trial program that teams the government with Internet carriers to protect defense firms’ computer networks against data theft by foreign adversaries.
It is part of a larger effort to broaden the sha
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News American jihad or the Osama effect: Has US become uglier & more corrupt power?
05-05-2012
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Bennett Voyles, The Times of India
Despite two disastrous wars, hundreds of thousands of innocent people slaughtered , and hundreds of billions of dollars wasted or stolen - all in pursuit of a loosely organised enemy that history suggests can seldom be thwarted by military means the
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News Is US in a perpetual state of war?
05-02-2012
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Philip Fernando , Asian Tribune
In the last 20 years, there have only been three or four in which the U.S. military wasn’t at war. Now it seemed easier to take the plunge as technology has made it cheaper and easier to project conventional military force, and therefore presidents d
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News The Empire Strikes Back: Attack of the Drones
05-01-2012
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Right Side News
Politicians stand to make money off the implementation of drones in America. 53 members of the House are part of the drone caucus which works to expand the use of drones domestically. 15 members of the caucus have received a total of $68,500 from Gen
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News Brewing a Conflict with China
04-30-2012
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Paul Craig Roberts, LewRockwell.com
This is all about is provoking a long-term cold war conflict with China that will keep
profits and power flowing into Washington’s military-security complex. Large profits flow to armaments companies. A portion of the profits reflow into campaign co
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News The Jet That Ate the Pentagon
04-30-2012
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Foreign Policy Magazine
The US is making a gigantic investment in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, billed by its advocates as the next -- by their count the fifth -- generation of air-to-air and air-to-ground combat aircraft. Claimed to be near invisible to radar and able to
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News US taxpayers shelling out billions for faulty weapons
04-25-2012
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http://rt.com
The Pentagon has frittered away billions in taxpayer cash on not fully tested arms, a government watchdog report says.
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News The Duty of the Military in a Militarized Empire
04-23-2012
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http://batr.org
Ever since Congress abrogated their lawful war power authority to declare war, the military industrial complex has embarked on a path of global empire.
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News Newspaper probing Pentagon alleges online harassment
04-22-2012
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AFP
USA Today said an editor and reporter probing Pentagon propaganda efforts have been targeted by an online "misinformation campaign." Fake Twitter and Facebook accounts have been created under the names of the reporter and editor with postings denigra
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News DRS wins $269M contract for military Internet cafe
04-20-2012
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David Hubler, Washington Technology
DRS Technical Services Inc. will create an overseas Internet cafe to boost troop morale under a Navy contract that could be worth as much as $269 million if all options are exercised.
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News Contracting waste, fraud 'significant' in Afghanistan, IG says
04-19-2012
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Jolie Lee, Federal News Radio
The Commission Wartime Contracting found that the United States lost between $31 billion and $60 billion to waste, fraud and abuse in wartime contracts during operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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News Air Force's $1 billion IT system has ‘negligible' capability, comptroller says
04-19-2012
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Federal Times
The system is supposed to save billions of dollars by streamlining the Air Force's supply chain management and providing an integrated approach for buying, moving and managing equipment. Morin described the new system's "usable capability" as "neglig
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News GOP Unveils Plan to Gut Food Stamp Program
04-18-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
House Republicans have passed their budget that includes slashing food stamps in an effort to save billions in cuts to the Pentagon.
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News Pentagon defends giving millions to contractor despite the contractor's unpaid taxes
04-16-2012
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Tom Vanden Brook and Ray Locker, USA Today
The tax problems of the military's top propaganda contractor in Afghanistan would not have prevented the Pentagon from awarding it multimillion-dollar contracts, a top official said in a letter to U.S. senators
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News U.S. Air Force Restarts $1 Billion Afghanistan Aircraft Competition
04-13-2012
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Tony Capaccio and Danielle Ivory, Bloomberg
The U.S. Air Force will restart its stalled $1 billion competition to buy light attack aircraft for the Afghanistan military, it said today.
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News Nuclear Power Is Expensive and Bad for the Environment …
04-11-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Washingtons Blog
Nuclear power is no longer an economically viable source of new energy in the United States, the freshly-retired CEO of Exelon, America’s largest producer of nuclear power [who also served on the president’s Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclea
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News Our Men in Iran?
04-06-2012
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newyorker Posted by Seymour M. Hersh
From the air, the terrain of the Department of Energy’s Nevada National Security Site, with its arid high plains and remote mountain peaks, has the look of northwest Iran.
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Headlines: Our Men in Iran? -- Nuclear Power Is Expensive and Bad for the Environment … -- U.S. Air Force Restarts $1 Billion Afghanistan Aircraft Competition -- Pentagon defends giving millions to contractor despite the contractor's unpaid taxes -- GOP Unveils Plan to Gut Food Stamp Program -- DoD Contract Awards for April 9th, 10th, 12th, 13th, 16th, 17th, & 18th. -- Problems of Empire -- Air Force's $1 billion IT system has ‘negligible' capability, comptroller says -- Contracting waste, fraud 'significant' in Afghanistan, IG says -- DRS wins $269M contract for military Internet cafe -- Newspaper probing Pentagon alleges online harassment -- The Duty of the Military in a Militarized Empire -- US taxpayers shelling out billions for faulty weapons -- The Jet That Ate the Pentagon -- Brewing a Conflict with China -- The Empire Strikes Back: Attack of the Drones -- Is US in a perpetual state of war? -- American jihad or the Osama effect: Has US become uglier & more corrupt power? -- Pentagon to expand cybersecurity program for defense contractors -- The spectacle of terror and its vested interests: entrapment feeds a $$Mn surveillance industry -- Civics 101: Cutting Defense Means Not Voting for $642.5 Billion for US Military -- U.S. House Defies Obama With $554 Billion Defense Bill -- Drones of Its Own -- Devil's bargain -- The state of the military-industrial complex is strong: War may dwindle, But MIC will Never slow. --
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