Americans spent about 50 days working and paying taxes last year just to feed the war machine — with 23 days going to pay Pentagon contractors and their millionaire CEOs, Lindsay Koshgarian and Hanna Homestead report.
Belgian authorities have refused to name the arms firms that exported the goods amid the opening of a criminal investigation into the matter, John McEvoy reports.
Officials from BAE Systems, Leonardo and Thales sit on advisory committees that oversee the “strategic direction” of academic departments in the U.K., reports Martin Williams.
Mark Curtis reveals that Britain’s Ministry of Defence prepared for war with Russia after expanding NATO – 26 years before Moscow invaded Ukraine.
Before the ceasefire, as Trump escalated threats and oil chokepoints tightened, Trita Parsi warned that the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran was entering its most dangerous phase yet.
The war is part of a broader struggle in which the question of Palestine is being shaped, contested and potentially resolved, argues Ramzy Baroud.
Mark Curtis reports that Israel’s nuclear arms were seen by British officials as the major obstacle to achieving a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East, declassified files from the 1990s show.
Israel’s veiled threat to Moscow came just after Russian media warned traffic cameras in Moscow were vulnerable to the same exploits that Israel reportedly used to monitor Ayatollah Khamenei’s residence before assassinating him.
The events of the last few years: Gaza, the Epstein files and more, have revealed that the new order of things is the open predation of the powerful on the rest of us.
The F.B.I. manufactured plots to convince Donald Trump that Iran sought to kill him, while Israel and its administration allies exploited the president’s deepest fears to keep him on the path to war.