Tag: ARMS INDUSTRY

A shrinking weapons stockpile is testing the Pentagon’s sweeping new strategy

By Pranshu Verma In a late-June meeting with more than a dozen of the nation’s top defense technology firms, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had an urgent message: The Pentagon needed their help to rapidly replenish America’s weapons arsenal. Outside the room, the United States was mired in a conflict with Iran that was rapidly depleting U.S.… Read More A shrinking weapons stockpile is testing the Pentagon’s sweeping new strategy

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Marketing War (2023)

An interview with Magdi el Gizouli Adam Benjamin Sudan’s ongoing war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces has killed thousands and displaced millions. The current crisis follows years of political upheaval across the country. In late 2018 and 2019, mass protests calling for democratic rule led to the collapse of the… Read More Marketing War (2023)

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Selling American Bombs

Tim Barker, Dylan Saba Martin Luther King once called the United States government “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world.” That formulation may be controversial, but no one denies that the US is by far the world’s biggest arms dealer, with a 42 percent share of the global arms export market.    Since the Cold War, Congress… Read More Selling American Bombs

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Arms Markets

A look at the world’s largest military industries Anna Stavrianakis In 1934, a US Senate Committee chaired by the Republican Gerald Nye began eighteen months of hearings on the domestic arms industry, investigating the enormous profits it had generated from World War I, amid speculation that the “merchants of death” might soon drag America into… Read More Arms Markets

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The billionaire companies behind Israel’s bombs

By Betsey Piette On May 10,  Secretary of State Antony Blinken addressed Congress and lied. He said: “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting the transport or delivery of U.S. humanitarian assistance.” This is despite an explosive report given to Blinken in April 2024, from the State Department’s Refugees… Read More The billionaire companies behind Israel’s bombs

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The Arsenal of Genocide: the U.S. Weapons That Are Destroying Gaza

During the Second World War, the United States proudly called itself the “Arsenal of Democracy,” as its munitions factories and shipyards produced an endless supply of weapons to fight the genocidal government of Germany. Today, the United States is instead, shamefully, the Arsenal of Genocide, providing 70% of the imported weapons Israel is using to… Read More The Arsenal of Genocide: the U.S. Weapons That Are Destroying Gaza

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HOW ISRAEL COMMODIFIES MASS KILLING THROUGH ITS “PALESTINE LABORATORY”

Israel is “battle-testing” its military equipment on Palestinians — and selling it abroad. FOR MORE THAN two months, the Israeli military has waged a scorched-earth campaign against Gaza, and the death toll has risen to over 18,000 Palestinians, including more than 7,000 children. Meanwhile, in the occupied West Bank, violent Israeli government-armed and funded settlers continue… Read More HOW ISRAEL COMMODIFIES MASS KILLING THROUGH ITS “PALESTINE LABORATORY”

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Butchery in Gaza continues / European arms factories blockaded by their workers / Reuters journalist murdered by Israeli tank fire / UN Chief invokes Article 99 after 34 years

NB: Israel is committing genocide with impunity; conducted in front of our noses. Read the UN definition of genocide; and the brazen hypocrisy of the propaganda about the slogan ‘From the River to the Sea‘. Read also the history of the decades long ethnic cleansing against Palestinians; and the demand for a unitary, secular state. The… Read More Butchery in Gaza continues / European arms factories blockaded by their workers / Reuters journalist murdered by Israeli tank fire / UN Chief invokes Article 99 after 34 years

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