military industrial complex

The Wandering Anti-Terrorist Funds

Little Jack Horner sat in the corner,
Eating a Christmas pie.
He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum
And said "What a good boy am I." - Nursery Rhyme

Posted in military industrial complex, Politics, Pakistan

The Pentagon: Some-Things-Never-Change Department

What a difference four and a half years makes. When I first penned "The Wild Weapons of DARPA," in March 2004, I was a new TomDispatch writer; the war in Iraq was not yet a year old; the war in Afghanistan had been bubbling for less than two and a half years, and I suggested that "what's left of the USSR is a collapsed group of half-failed states, while the U.S.

Posted in military industrial complex, War/Empire

Film Reveals CIA's 'Most Secret Place on Earth'

PHNOM PENH - It was known as the ‘secret war', a covert operation waged by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) throughout the sixties and early seventies against communist guerrillas in Laos.

And the most secret location in this clandestine war was the former CIA air base of Long Chen, in central Laos, a place that remain off limits even today.

A new film, ‘The Most Secret Place on Earth', to be released in cinemas across Europe later this year, explores this little known conflict.

Posted in military industrial complex, War/Empire

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Full Spectrum Dominance

Welcome to the New Cold War

WASHINGTON - August 21 - Whatever happened to the fight against Al Qaeda and radical Islam? That's old news. Welcome to the new New Cold War. Exit "evil" Iran and a phantom Al Qaeda enter the remixed Evil Empire, Russia - a superpower complete with nuclear weapons.

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Posted in military industrial complex, War/Empire, Europe

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