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Donate Your Unused Twitter Characters To Support Wounded Warriors In Need

Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Wounded Veterans, Twitter, Raytheon, Wounded Warriors, Wounded Warrior Project, hashtags4heroes, Pam Wickham, Veterans, Video, Impact News

Here’s one instance where you’re better off tweeting less than 140 characters. The Wounded Warrior Project, a nonprofit that empowers and helps...

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A Momentum of Cynicism

Robert Koehler | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Lockheed Martin, Military Industrial Complex, Raytheon, Guantanamo, US Arms Sales, Iraq, Murat Kurnaz, Barack Obama, Sunnis, Nouri Al Maliki, Shiites, World News
Robert Koehler

The sale of arms to Iraq, $11 billion worth of almost everything, is going to move forward even though it makes little sense from multiple points of view, including U.S. geopolitical interests.

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World's Largest Weapons Exporters

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Boeing, Russia, Lockheed Martin, Military Industrial Complex, United Kingdom, Afghanistan, Raytheon, United States, General Dynamics, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, United States Military, Northrop Grumman, Dwight Eisenhower, Military, Germany, South Korea, Slidepollajax, Japan, Iraq, Kuwait, China, World News
Howard Steven Friedman

Not surprisingly, the United States is by far the largest arms exporter, with Russia being the only country with more than half the value of military exports.

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Military Contractors Make Their Move on the Deficit Committee

Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Political Economy Research Institute, Corruption, Raytheon, Peri, Brave New Foundation, Lockheed Martin, Lobbying, Boeing, Jobs, Second to None, General Dynamics, Military Contractors, War Industry, Unemployment, Murray, War Costs, Politico, Northrop Grummon, Hensarling, Politics News
Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe

The new deficit commission is holding its first substantive meeting on Tuesday, and the military contractors are out in force to protect their profits.

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Pentagon's Scare Campaign Based On Budget Spin, Not Facts

Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe | Posted 10.18.2011

Read More: Boeing, Debt, Brave New Foundation, Lockheed Martin, Budget, Raytheon, Donna Cassata, War Spending, Supercommittee, General Dynamics, Deficit, Panetta, Super Committee, Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction, War Costs, Defense Spending, Third World America, Politics News
Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe

The Pentagon and their war industry allies are mounting an aggressive, fear-based campaign of hyperbole and spin to scare Congress away from cuts that could affect contractor profits.

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Made in America: Gates' NATO Slam Is About Selling Death & Destruction, Our Top Export

Brian Ross | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Nato, Military, Defense Industry, Robert Gates, Boeing, US Military, War, Moammar Gadhafi, Libya, Afghanistan, Libyan Rebels, Politics News
Brian Ross

NATO was the Obama Administration's answer to a long call by social liberals and fiscal libertarians to make the other countries of the world step-up to these moral imperatives and pay a bigger part of the way. It has been a spectacular failure.

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Why We Need to Rein in Government Contractors That Use Taxpayer Money for Political Advantage

Robert Reich | Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Campaign Finance Reform, Robert Reich, Government Contracting, Lockheed Martin, Blackwater, Raytheon, Government Contractors, Barack Obama, Campaign Finance, Politics News
Robert Reich

The president needs to ban Lockheed Martin and all other government contractors that get more than half their revenues from government from engaging in any political activities at all. Taxpayers shouldn't be paying for this lobbying.

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Libya and Liberals: Confessions of a Minion of the Military-Industrial Complex

Dr. Jonathan David Farley | Posted 06.26.2011

Read More: Cruise Missile, Juan Cole, Libya, Raytheon, Military-Industrial Complex, The Hague, Scipio Africanus, Politics News
Dr. Jonathan David Farley

If I were the Secret Service, I'd be investigating me about now. There is a 2006 photo of me sitting next to Senator Ted Kennedy, Congresswoman Jo An...

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The Million-Dollar Weapon

Center For Public Integrity | Sharon Weinberger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Gulf War, Tomahawk, Center for Public Integrity, Raytheon, Operation Desert Fox, Afghanistan War, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Gaddafi, No-Fly-Zone, Iraq War, Tomahawk Missile, Libya, Saddam Hussein, Libya No Fly Zone, Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan Rebels, Kuwait, Tomahawk Block Iv, US Navy, Libya Protests, Business News

By Sharon Weinberger Center for Public Integrity In the opening days of the assault on Libya, the United States and the United Kingdom launched a ...

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WATCH: HuffPost's Marcus Baram Discusses Corporations Doing Business In Libya On MSNBC

Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Uslba, Chevron, Bp, Raytheon, Halliburton, Exxonmobil, u.s.-Libya Business Association, Marathon Oil, Dick Cheney, Gaddafi, Libya, Video, Northrop Grumman, National-Foreign-Trade-Council, Muammar Gaddafi, Dow Chemical, Libya Protests, Conoco, Business News
Huff TV

Huffington Post Reporter Marcus Baram appeared on MSNBC on Tuesday to discuss U.S. corporations that have had business dealings in Libya. Baram recen...

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America to its Military-Industrial Complex: Happy Valentine's Day!

Jackson Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Msnbc, Egypt, Military-Industrial Complex, Mubarak, New York Times, Dwight Eisenhower Farewell Speech, Mad Money, Joe Nocera, Masters of War, Cnbc, Jim Kramer, Business, Andrew Ross Sorkin Too Big to Fail, World, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Northrop-Grumman, Politics News
Jackson Williams

An 18-day peaceful revolution has just toppled Egypt's 30-year Mubarak dictatorship. As the free-falling government dispatched American-made F-16s to...

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FDIC Forum Ignores #1 Challenge for Small Businesses

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Raytheon, Small Business, Abuse, Lockheed Martin, Lending, Boeing, Economy, Middle Class, Forum, Jobs, Asbl, Loopholes, General Dynamics, Saic, Fdic, Fraud, Northrop Grumman, John Deere, Bechtel, Loans, Xerox, Ben Bernanke, Economic Stimulus, Sheila Bair, Dell Computer, Small Business America, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

Let's just try something crazy like not giving federal small business contracts to some of the biggest companies in the world, and instead direct those dollars to the nation's 27 million small businesses.

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The US Defense Establishment Is Tied Inextricably to China

Rizwan Ladha | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Boeing, Pentagon, Northrop Grumman, Military, Department of Defense, Raytheon, United States, China, Defense, National Security, China Economy, World News
Rizwan Ladha

The ability of the United States to defend itself through all three legs -- land, air and sea -- is contingent upon its continued cooperation with its largest economic rival, China.

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Shadow Elite: What Blackwater Sells (and the Government Wants): Deniability

Janine R. Wedel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Defense Contractors, Government Contracting, Blackwater, Raytheon, Shadow Elite, Private Security Contractors, Business News
Janine R. Wedel

Ever heard of a private security contractor name Paravant? XPG? No? Well, that's just as Blackwater, the parent company of Paravant, XPG and dozens of other "subsidiaries", would have it.

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Aerostats: Military Testing High-Tech DIRIGIBLES

AP | MIKE STARK | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Military Dirigibles, JLENS, Aerostat Military, Aerostat Testing, Aerostats, Raytheon, Dirigibles, Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System, Aerostat Raytheon, Aerostat Testing Utah, Aerostat, Technology News

SALT LAKE CITY — The skies over the Utah desert are becoming the test site for a new fleet of hulking high-tech dirigibles the U.S. military is ...

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New In-depth Report Challenges Obama Small Business Track Record

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lack of Oversight, Fortune 500, Small Business, Abuse, Office Depot, Raytheon, Women-Owned-Business, General Dynamics, Loopholes, Minority Owned Business, Fraud, Veteran-Owned Business, Xerox, Barack Obama, Starwood Hotels, Cit, Bechtel, American Small Business League, Lockheed Martin, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

The American Small Business League (ASBL) has concluded an examination and report on President Barack Obama's track record for small businesses, and u...

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Obama Small Business Task Force Will Likely Threaten Small Business Programs

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: General Electric, Raytheon, Fortune 500, Small Business, Economy, Boeing, Middle Class, Task Force, Jobs, Mantech, General Dynamics, Barack Obama, Office Depot, Xerox, Job Creation, Dell Computer, Lockheed Martin, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

The largest recipient of federal small business contracts last year was Textron, Inc., a Fortune 500 firm with over 43,000 employees and over $14 billion a year in annual revenue.

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Blackwater Took Hundreds Of US Weapons From Military, Afghan Police Using 'South Park' Alias

AP / Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Security Contractors, US Military, Afghanistan, Afghan War, Afghan National Police, Raytheon, Ricky Chambers, Kabul, Christopher Dortleff, Weapons, Anp, Guns, Paravant, Ak-47, Senate Report, Senate, Army, Cia, Blackwater, Greg Sailer, Petraeus, Justin Cannon, Xe, Carl Levin, Afghan Police, Eric Cartman, South Park, Rifles, World News

WASHINGTON - A Senate investigation accuses the Army of turning a blind eye when a Blackwater subsidiary hired violent drug users to help train the Af...

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A Letter to President Obama From an American With Common Sense

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fraud, Small Business, President Obama, Abuse, Barack Obama, Raytheon, Middle Class, American Small Business League, State of the Union, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

I just finished watching your State of the Union address. You said something that really caught my attention. You said, "let's try common sense." I...

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Media Coverage of State of the Union Address Will Ignore Obama's Empty Promises to Middle Class

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Boeing, Small Business, Abuse, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, President Obama, Middle Class, Political Rhetoric, Nobel Peace Prize, Campaign Promises, Barack Obama, Fraud, Northrop Grumman, Obama-Broken-Promises, Bechtel, American Small Business League, State of the Union, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

President Obama's State of the Union address this evening will be dissected by thousands of journalists across the nation. Panels of journalists and p...

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Obama State of the Union Address Will be More Rhetoric and No Substance for The Middle Class

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Raytheon, Small Business, Abuse, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Middle Class, President Obama, Nobel Peace Prize, Political Rhetoric, Campaign Promises, Barack Obama, Fraud, Northrop Grumman, Bechtel, Obama-Broken-Promises, American Small Business League, State of the Union, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

I can already hear the empty pandering to the middle class in President Obama's State of the Union speech. He will be reading one of the most well wri...

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Obama Small Business Plan Falls Short of Real Solutions

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: General Electric, Raytheon, Fortune 500, Small Business, Abuse, Hewlett-Packard, 3M Corporation, Boeing, asblLockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Staples, Barack Obama, Small Business Lending, Fraud, Northrop Grumman, AT&T, Booz Allen Hamilton, Loans, Xerox, Contracting, American Small Business League, Dell Computer, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

Today, President Barack Obama held a press conference in Landover, MD to announce the administration's plans for a, "New Small Business Lending Initia...

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iPhone Goes To Battlefield:

guardian.co.uk | Bobbie Johnson, San Francisco | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iphone App War, Raytheon, Iphone Military, Iphone Battlefield, One Force Tracker, Iphone Soldier, Iphone War, Iphone Weapon, Technology News

But now one of America's biggest military contractors is taking the concept to extremes, by building a series of apps for use on the battlefield. A...

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"Markets" and the National Interest

Gary Hart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Weapons, FInancial Markets, National Security, Sec, Eurozone, Greece, Raytheon, Bernard Madoff, Greek Debt Crisis, Boenig, Business News
Gary Hart

It is not only wrong for private American financial institutions to go abroad selling financial snake oil to foreign governments; in a just world it would also be criminal.

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Recovering to Death

Tom H. Hastings | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Minimum Wage, Jobless Recovery, Unemployment, Afghanistan, Economy, Raytheon, Defense Contractors, Recession, Politics News
Tom H. Hastings

Americans are on Full Oxymoron Alert these days, as we read and hear about this "jobless recovery." Recovery for whom?

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