Tag: military-industrial complex
Eisenhower’s ghost haunts Biden’s foreign policy team
The most serious challenge facing President-elect Biden's foreign policy team, which is not a threat from a hostile country, but the corruption of U.S. policy by powerful corporate interests, is the "unwarranted influence" of the Military-Industrial Complex.
Fighting for America’s soul
Progressives are fighting to save the values and institutions on which their country was founded.
Are Sanders and Warren throwing a lifeline to the military-industrial complex?
Without a genuine commitment to peace and disarmament, the next president will find him- or herself caught in the same bind as Obama and Trump.
‘We cannot keep handing over billions to military-industrial complex,’ says Sanders...
Sen. Bernie Sanders said the United States cannot continue pouring massive sums into the Pentagon at the expense of domestic priorities after...
Merger mania
When, in his farewell address in 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the dangers of the “unwarranted influence” wielded by the “military-industrial complex,”...
The devil’s dynamo
The Devil’s Dynamo of today has lead to a modern version of colonialism and empire.
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Government defends praising tar sands industry figures as COP26 ‘climate champions’
Five of the individuals praised at COP26 event hold senior roles at fossil fuel companies and investors, including the Royal Bank of Canada and Suncor.
The real problem with Bill Gates and neoliberal optimism
The progressive left needs to confront the fact that plutocratic philanthropists like Gates care much more about preserving the systems that continue to multiply their wealth.
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"We do not have a shortage of willing workers in this country. We have a shortage of employers who are willing to pay workers enough to live."