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RT’s ‘The Alyona Show’: Derrick Crowe on Lockheed Martin, Masters of DC Seduction

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Published: Friday, March 23rd, 2012

By Staff at “The Alyona Show“ The F-35 joint strike fighter is the most expensive weapons program to date. A recent Government Accountability Office report shows that cost overruns in the first four procurement contracts were more than 1 billion over budget combined. But the Air Force is sticking with it and will just have [...]

No More “King-Washing” the Pentagon, Please

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Published: Monday, January 16th, 2012

“A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war, “This way of settling differences is not just.” This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of [...]

The Devil Is in the Details of the Pentagon’s Plan

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Published: Thursday, January 5th, 2012

Will super-rich war-industry CEOs be able to keep bilking taxpayers out of hundreds of billions of dollars? That’s the question everyone should be asking after today’s announcement of the new strategic guidelines for the Pentagon. With the new guidance promising only to slow — not reverse — the growth of the bloated military budget, there’s [...]

Enough With the Scare Tactics, Secretary Panetta

Source: Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe
Published: Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

If you thought we were going to have a rational, fact-based debate about cuts to the out-of-control military budget in this country, think again. 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. The reason for [...]

War Budget Cuts Possible If We Counter Contractors’ Multimillion-Dollar Campaign Spending

Source: Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe
Published: Thursday, August 11th, 2011

The deal worked out to allow a rise in the debt ceiling gives us our first real chance in more than a decade to make significant cuts to our country’s out-of-control war budget, but we are going to have to fight for them. The war industry is already deploying their favorite kind of stealth weapon [...]

How to Cut Hundreds of Billions in War Spending

Source: Derrick Crowe and Robert Greenwald
Published: Friday, August 5th, 2011

The debt limit crisis that’s consumed Washington, D.C. created an unexpected silver lining: the first opportunity in a decade to make real cuts to our runaway military budget. The deal reached to allow a rise in the debt limit “includes about $350 billion in guaranteed cuts for the Pentagon and other defense-related programs, plus up [...]