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The Military-Industrial Complex Strikes Back
Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower, January 17, 1961
Barely a week after the 53rd anniversary of President Dwight [...]
By Gareth Porter
Fifty years after Dwight D. Eisenhower’s January 17, 1961 speech on the “military-industrial complex”, that threat has morphed into a far more powerful and sinister force than Eisenhower could have imagined. It has become a “Permanent War State”, with the power to keep the United States at war continuously for the indefinite [...]
Recent revelations by Think Progress concerning the contributions of foreign corporate donors to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which are helping to fund American political advertisements are not deterring the Chamber from expanding and reinforcing its efforts to shape US politics and policies in the interests of foreign corporate entities.
The newest addition to the US Chamber’s secretive web of potential election donors : a new joint US-Israel “business council.”
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