6 companies that are the most reliant on government contracts
"What might be surprising is just how dependent some companies are on government spending for their existence."
"What might be surprising is just how dependent some companies are on government spending for their existence."
"In 1935, USMC Major General Smedley Butler warned the world that 'War is a racket. It always has been...'"
"The whole thing shows you that wars can be caused by groups that you and I are not aware exist and that strings are being pulled by people behind the scenes. And wars can be avoided, I think, by honesty and transparency."
"Are we to believe that the same institution that so recklessly hawks military weaponry to hostile actors is so sincerely concerned with protecting America’s national-defense capabilities that we can trust it to restrict, for reasons of national security, our freedom to trade?"
"If any other government department spent as much and accomplished as little, the populace would be in arms."
"There are few bipartisan projects in Congress these days, but Republicans and Democrats have no trouble joining together to feed more money into the Pentagon's gaping maw."
"As the Saudis attack the Yemeni port town of Hodeidah, the stated goal is to starve the residents into opposing the Houthi forces controlling the city. The US is actively participating in what is clearly a war crime against civilians. Why?"
"Despite condemnations from China, the US continues to sell advanced weapons to the island under the Taiwan Relations Act for its self-defense against a much bigger Chinese military."
"Around a dozen Google employees have already quit over the company's involvement in an artificial intelligence drone program for the Pentagon called Project Maven."
"Now as the death toll tragically stands at many tens of thousands, and with a subsequent U.N. report from 2017 documenting in detail 'the killing and maiming of children' on a mass scale, Blitzer's words are even more revealing of the role that CNN and other major American networks play in enabling and excusing U.S. and allied partners' war crimes abroad."