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Cluster Bombs, Made in America |
NY Times Editorial -- June 1, 2008 -- On Friday, 111 nations, including major NATO allies, adopted a treaty that sets an eight-year deadline to eliminate stockpiles of cluster arms - pernicious weapons that scatter thousands of small bombs across a wide area, where they pose a long-term deadly threat to innocents. The Bush administration not only failed to sign the treaty but vigorously opposed it. (Full Article)
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America's Failed Militarized Foreign Policy |
by Jeffrey Sachs -- Nov. 2007 -- The United States persists in responding to symptoms rather than to underlying conditions by trying to address every conflict by military means. It backs the Ethiopian army in Somalia. It occupies Iraq and Afghanistan. It threatens to bomb Iran. It supports the military dictatorship in Pakistan. (Full Article)
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The Arms Trade is Big Business |
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by Anup Shah -- updated Oct. 30, 2007 -- Every year, the U.S. Congressional Research Service releases a report looking at arms transfers to the developing world. The 2006 report is titled Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 1999-2006. They provide insight into where the arms are going. (Full Article) |
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Global Military Spending Hits $1.2 Trillion, Study Says |
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Reuters staff -- June 11, 2007 -- Global military spending rose 3.5 percent last year to $1.2 trillion as U.S. costs for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan mounted, a European research body said on Monday in an annual study. The United States spent $529 billion, slightly less than the entire GDP of the Netherlands, on military operations in 2006, up 5 percent over the previous year. (Full Article)
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Bush Military Budget Highest Since WWII |
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by William D. Hartung -- Feb. 10, 2007 -- Even by Bush administration standards, the military spending proposal for Fiscal Year 2008 - the budget year beginning on October 1, 2007 -- is enormous. The request for the "regular" military budget, which includes Pentagon spending plus work on nuclear warheads and naval reactors at the Department of Energy, was $499 billion. This represents a $46 billion increase from the current budget year. (Full Article) |
by Noam Chomsky -- Apr. 26, 2006 -- Four critical issues that should rank high on the agenda of those concerned with the prospects for a decent future: nuclear war, environmental disaster, the government of the global superpower acting in ways that enhance these threats, and the growing democratic deficit, the gap between public will and public policy. (Full Article)
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Imperialism 101 by Michael Parenti |
by Michael Parenti -- Imperialism has been the most powerful force in world history over the last four or five centuries, carving up whole continents while oppressing indigenous peoples and obliterating entire civilizations. This article is the first chapter of his book "Against Empire". (Full Article)
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“Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple. ” Edward de Bono
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