Tag: Military- Industrial Complex

USA

The US Empire isn’t a government that runs non stop wars, it’s a non stop war that runs a government – Pearls and Irritations

Toy soldiers on money showing USA President Lincoln's face.Image: iStock/keepphotos

the behavior of the empire absolutely is an emergency. The escalations against Russia and China that these freaks are pushing have the world on a trajectory that’s going to get us all killed, and the horrors they are inflicting in Gaza and elsewhere are creating a nightmare on earth right here and now. The empire is only getting crazier and more violent as its planetary domination becomes more challenged, and until people can see it for what it really is, it’s going to be very hard to build up the necessary public opposition against it to use the power of our numbers to force them to stop.

 

Source: The US Empire isn’t a government that runs non stop wars, it’s a non stop war that runs a government – Pearls and Irritations

WAR

Is World War III About to Start? Part II: Are the Military-Industrial Complex and Deep State Driving Us to War? – scheerpost.com

President Eisenhower warned us against the MIC over 60 years ago in his “Farewell Address” of January 20, 1961. Among other remarks he said:

“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”

Source: Is World War III About to Start? Part II: Are the Military-Industrial Complex and Deep State Driving Us to War? – scheerpost.com

Informed Comment

“A Good Investment”: The Ukraine War and the US Arms Racket – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The moral here from the US military-industrial complex is: stay the course. The returns are worth it. And in such a calculus, concepts such as freedom and democracy can be commodified and budgeted. As for Ukrainian suffering? Well, let it continue.

Source: “A Good Investment”: The Ukraine War and the US Arms Racket – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Israel

Craig Murray: Extreme Policing

People are getting arrested at a factory in the U.K. belonging to Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer for doing nothing but exercising the democratic right to protest.

Source: Craig Murray: Extreme Policing

ALP Government,

Prepping for a China war: the new arc of militarisation across northern Australia – Pearls and Irritations

USAF B-52 Bomber Image: iStock

Nuclear subs,B52s, but no warheads not even stored here?  Just dinky toys to play and warn with? We seem to have an American mindset, not a Pacific Regional one and are hair-trigger-armed.

In an arc of militarisation across northern Australia, successive Australian governments, in close concert with the United States, have responded to the rise of a newly assertive China in terms that constitute an almost historically irrevocable opposition to any accommodation with China as a regional great power.

Source: Prepping for a China war: the new arc of militarisation across northern Australia – Pearls and Irritations

Middle East

Deconstructed: Congress Caves to Saudi Arabia on Yemen

This week, the Senate voted down a resolution that would have blocked a defensive weapons sale to Saudi Arabia. The measure attracted support from senators of both parties for its potential to pressure the kingdom to end the war in Yemen. Intercept reporters Sara Sirota and Ken Klippenstein join Ryan Grim to discuss what the politics surrounding Saudi Arabia look like with a Democrat back in the White House. Transcript coming soon.

Source: Deconstructed: Congress Caves to Saudi Arabia on Yemen

Uncategorized

Afghanistan War Has Been Hugely Profitable

Was the Afghanistan War a failure? Not for the top five defense contractors and their shareholders. Jon Schwarz

Source: Afghanistan War Has Been Hugely Profitable

Trumpland Revealed, Uncategorized

How The Military-Industrial Complex Gets Away With Murder in Contract After Contract | The Smirking Chimp

Coupled with the Citizens United ruling (ODT)

via How The Military-Industrial Complex Gets Away With Murder in Contract After Contract | The Smirking Chimp

War Economy

Pentagon Socialism: Militarizing the Economy in the Name of Defense

What Military Industrial Complex?(ODT)

Given his erratic behavior, from daily Twitter eruptions to upping his tally of lies by the hour, it’s hard to think of Donald Trump as a man with a plan. But in at least one area — reshaping the economy to serve the needs of the military-industrial complex — he’s (gasp!) a socialist in the making.

via Pentagon Socialism: Militarizing the Economy in the Name of Defense

Australia's Shame

Victoria Is Not The Victim: Historic Queensland Defence Contract Showcases Australian Military-Industrial Propaganda – New Matilda

In Yemen, 8.4 million people are on the brink of famine and 11 million children require humanitarian assistance, in a population of 29 million. Those children are not receiving the assistance they need because of a Saudi-led, US, UK and Australia-backed, military blockade, using hunger and disease as a weapon of war, which is a war crime.

While they starve, Yemenis are being bombed from the air, and attacked on the ground in collaboration with Al-Qaeda and Al Qaeda-linked militants. Half of the country’s medical facilities have been destroyed, as a Cholera epidemic sweeps the nation. All this is being perpetrated using US, British and Australian weapons.

Why? Because it’s what Saudi Arabia, keeper of the petro-dollar, wants.

Although the UN’s Humanitarian Chief said on January 6th that the situation in Yemen “looks like apocalypse”, on January 16th, the US Army boasted on its Twitter feed that it would continue to boost the Saudi Military’s “powerful capability”.

“Capability” was a buzzword surrounding Australia’s new fleet of tanks on Wednesday as well. Capability for what? Inflicting apocalypse? Capability to starve and bomb millions of impoverished Yemeni people to death?

via Victoria Is Not The Victim: Historic Queensland Defence Contract Showcases Australian Military-Industrial Propaganda – New Matilda

Euro Zone

The Military-Industrial Complex Is Fundamentally Changing the European Union | The Nation

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The Military-Industrial Complex Is Fundamentally Changing the European Union | The Nation