military industrial complex

The Russian navy test-fires a Moskit P-270 antiship cruise missile in February of 2015. The P-270 Moskit is a Russian supersonic ramjet powered cruise missile (source).

For the first time in over half a century, an American President has actually come out attacking the Military Industrial Complex. Of course, everyone knows of President Dwight D. Eisenhauer’s famous outgoing 1961 speech warning the world (and the incoming President Kennedy) what sort of monster had arisen at the heart of America’s defense institutions.

Shanahan worked at Boeing, one of the world’s largest defense contractors, for more than 30 years before joining the Trump administration

Unlike a regular corporation, the corporations that manufacture and sell weapons to their government are virtually 100% dependent upon their government and its military allies, for their own success; their markets are only those governments, not individuals (such as is the case for normal corporations).

Among the gang of US elites actively vilifying Julian Assange right now are actually the same elites that his publication, Wikileaks, exposed in some of its biggest document dumps to date. Do you see the connection?
Watch as host Jimmy Dore of “The Jimmy Dore Show” passionately lays out his case:

Is there really a revolving door between Washington and the defense industry? Does this compromise the integrity, ethics and objectivity of government officials in the US?

To truly avoid a conflict of interest, the Boeing executive appointed acting secretary of defense would have to avoid many significant decisions, write Mandy Smithberger and William D. Hartung of Tom’s Dispatch.  By Mandy Smithberger and William D. Hartung Tom’s Dispatch The way…Read more →

I've never been a fan of Hillary Clinton's-- never. At least her husband's neo-liberal agenda was couched in a pleasant personality. Each time I've met her was-- literally-- disgusting. I was stuck with a monster. Once her whole retinue-- one by one-- abandoned her backstage before a speech and I was the only left to deal with her and it was excruciating. Once at a White House state banquet she was like the big downer in the otherwise festive event, bad vibing everyone.

Pretty and colorful as it is, that tweet from Professor Kelton isn't embedded as a decoration for the page. She's making an important point, more aggressively-- and beyond-- what Elizabeth Warren said in her famous first Senate campaign house-party, namely that "there is nobody in this country who got rich on his own; nobody.

Ron Paul says that Congressmen must sell their souls to have influence in government. He explains that if he had wanted to be the chairman of the Banking Committee, for example, he would be expected to raise $5 to $10 million for the party.