Will the nation’s vaunted military-industrial complex survive what some have billed as the “disaster” of mandatory sequestration cuts? Yes, and likely stronger than before. The self-imposed “sequester” wrought by the failure of Congress to reach a budget deal are scheduled to deliver more than $1 trillion in government spending cuts within weeks. Despite promises from [...]
WALMART INVOLVEMENT IN GARMENT FACTORY FIRE THAT KILLED 112 BANGLADESHI WORKERS? BETTER CALL OUR “ETHICS” DEPARTMENT FOR SOME PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY. The retail giant takes this stance since some of its Faded Glory brand clothes were found in the ashes. Walmart is heavily dependent for its cheap prices on the cheap and unsafe labor conditions [...]
` U.S. DEFENSE CONTRACTORS CAN SEE THEIR FUTURE, AND THAT FUTURE IS FILLED WITH DRONES. (Los Angeles Times) An outgrowth of the United States military and intelligence community’s increasing reliance on unmanned aerial drones is the huge chunk of business now made up by drone aircraft for America defense contractors. Foreign nations see what America [...]
While one war ends and another continues in protracted stalemate, the Obama administration appears to have opened a new Asian front in the worldwide quest for overwhelming American influence. Despite a burgeoning debate over both the Pentagon’s soaring budget, the wisdom of a significant expansion of the United States military’s global footprint after two disastrous [...]
President Obama announced on Friday that all US troops would be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of the year in compliance to the “status of forces” agreement previously arranged between the Iraqi government and then-President George W. Bush. The move will bring a formal end to the nearly eight-year war and American occupation that [...]
UNIVERSITY SOCIAL SCIENTIST, SAY YOUR RESEARCH PROJECT WAS DE-FUNDED? NOT TO WORRY BAE MILITARY CONTRACTOR WILL PUT YOU TO WORK AT A MUCH BETTER SALARY. (Al Jazeera) Mark LeVine comments on solications for employment of sociologists and anthropologist by the U.S. military, helping to bring to occupied countries the “cultural script” which will allow the [...]
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