Tag Archives: Weapons

Saudis amass U.S. weapons to confront Iran

UPI A proposed $60 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia, one of the largest-ever U.S. weapons sales, marks the consolidation of America as the kingdom’s main arms supplier after years of strain following 9/11.
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Ex-USSR awash in radioactive ‘dirty bomb’ substances

(AFP) It has been of one of Europe’s worst nightmares: traffickers obtaining highly-radioactive materials on the loose in the former Soviet Union with the help of corrupt officials and passing them on to rogue groups looking to make a dirty bomb.
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Orwellian Scenario: Bringing the War Home, Preparing the Domestic Battlespace

LA County Jail to Field-Test Raytheon Pain Ray Tom Burghardt Global Research/Antifascist Calling… “Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001,” the Congressional Research Service (CRS) tells us that “Congress has appropriated more than a trillion dollars for military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere around the world.” And with our “change” administration expanding “the [...]
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Canada Opens Arctic To NATO, Plans Massive Weapons Buildup

Rick Rozoff/Global Research/Stop NATO The government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently concluded the largest of a series of so-called Canadian sovereignty exercises in the Arctic, Operation Nanook, which ran from August 6-26.
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Our Only Existing Jobs Program Is the Military — an Insane Way to Keep Americans Employed

Robert B. Reich, Robert Reich’s Blog America’s biggest — and only major — jobs program is the U.S. military. Over 1,400,000 Americans are now on active duty; another 833,000 are in the reserves, many full time. Another 1,600,000 Americans work in companies that supply the military with everything from weapons to utensils. (I’m not even [...]
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