William Hartung reviews the 50-year history of U.S. dominance of the Middle Eastern arms trade.
America’s Arms Sales Addiction
Category: Advanced Technologies
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Watch the replay of Episode 16 right here on Consortium News as we delved into the troubling issue of how Artificial Intelligence is undermining what’s left of Western democracy.
Convicted Antinuclear Activists Speak Out: ‘Pentagon Has Brainwashed People’
The jury that convicted the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 was self-avowedly apathetic about the risks posed by nuclear weapons and the judge and prosecution prevented defendants from trying to raise their consciousness on the issue, reports Marjorie Cohn.
Panel Finds Gaping Holes in OPCW Report on Alleged Syrian Chemical Attack
A whistleblowers’ advocacy group finds “unacceptable practices” by an investigation of the 2018 chemical attack in Douma, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
British Government Continues to Aid Repression in Human Rights-Abusing Countries, New Data Shows
In the past year, “telecommunications interception equipment,” or software & technology for it, has been exported to authoritarian regimes such as the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Qatar, report Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis.
Hypersonic Weapons & National Insecurity
Weapons that move five times the speed of sound are driving the latest phase of an arms race that not only never ends, but is constantly generating new global risks, writes Rajan Menon.
The Oligarchy’s Plans for Our Future Keep Getting Dumber
Caitlin Johnstone discards the high-flown dogma around space colonization and challenges readers to accept themselves and life on planet Earth.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Finally Time for DNC Email Evidence
The crumbling of Russiagate focuses attention on the considerable evidence that Russian intelligence agencies charged with intrusion into DNC servers had nothing to do with it.
THE ANGRY ARAB: The Moon Landing & the Cold War
Amid all the 50th anniversary commemorations of Apollo 11, As`ad AbuKhalil finds little mention of the pioneering contributions of the Soviet space program.
Merger Mania in the Military Industry
Lockheed Martin’s government contracts rival the operating budget of the State Department, writes William D. Hartung. And now it’s about to have company.