The fight for energy, the need to provide for and control the increasing population and the lust for power are driving the planet toward a massive military showdown.
Since the dawn of the 21st century, five of the six countries involved in the six-party talks have increased their military spending by 50% or more. The sixth, […]
Entries Tagged as 'Arms'
Global military complex
February 13th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Pre-emptive nuclear strike · Global economy · Energy · Military Keynesianism · Energy independence · Military industrial complex · National security · Empire · Defense · 2008 · Iraq · Climate Change · Sustainability · China · Arms · Politics
Scott Ritter on the Iraq tragedy
February 5th, 2008 · No Comments
Scott Ritter, former weapons inspector, writes on Truthdig about the dismal future for the Iraqi people.
Rather than offering a word-for-word renouncement of the president’s rosy assertions concerning Iraq, I will instead initiate a process of debunking the myth of American success by doing that which no politician, current or aspiring, would dare do: predict the […]
Tags: Defense · Scott Ritter · Arms · Media · Iraq · Politics
US hand in nuclear arsenal
November 28th, 2007 · No Comments
Arms sales are a tricky business and will often come back to haunt you. Take for example, US made surface to air missiles now being used against our own forces in Afghanistan. The road they traveled to come into the hands of the resurgent Taliban is not so long, nor so hard to […]
Tags: Afghanistan · Arms · Pakistan · Iran
