Tag: Military-industrial complex
Who Benefits Most From a Bloated Pentagon Budget? The Weapons Industry.
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Defense Contractors Are Escorting Us Down the Path to Armageddon
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US Arms Dealing Is Out of Control
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Americans Live in a Culture of War
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An Inflated Pentagon Budget Is Not in the Country’s Best Interest
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Why the Left Is Learning to Love the Military
In 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at Harlem’s Riverside Church to a crowd of thousands that flowed out the door as far as 120th Street. King publicly condemned the Vietnam War because it had “broken and eviscerated” the civil-rights and anti-poverty movements at home. The American government was “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.”
Read: Martin Luther King Jr. on the Vietnam War
In 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky invoked another MLK speech while
This Is Life in Paranoid America
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More Money for the Pentagon Won’t Make Us Safe
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Militarizing Schools Isn’t the Answer to Gun Violence
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The Arms Industry Is At It Again. Imagine That.
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