Category Archives: Arms industry

Lockheed Martin goes to bat for oppressive regime | Salon.com

A top executive for the military contractor worked with lobbyists for Bahrain to publish Op-Ed defending the regime. Continue reading…

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Norway’s dirty little secrets | Mark Curtis | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Norway is no ethical leader – its pension fund, oil policy, environmental record and arms exports give the lie to its image. Read more…

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Meet the 0.01 Per Cent: War Profiteers | War Costs

While the Occupy movement targets the 1 Percent, we want to introduce you to the elite among the gang of superrich: the war profiteers. War industry CEOs make tens of millions of dollars a year, putting them in the top 0.01 percent of income earners in the U.S., and they use their corporations’ massive lobbying dollars to keep their job-killing gravy train rolling. We’ve got to stop them.a Watch…

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