CBS 60 minutes programme reveals the extent of 'price gouging' by defence companies flush with "cash beyond their needs for operations or investment." They have tens of billions of excess cash from Pentagon business to hand out to shareholders. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPvpqAaJjVU https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pentagon-budget-price-gouging-military-contractors-60-minutes-2023-05-21/
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MORE FROM THE BIG ONE: Why War is a Racket
Also speaking at the XR peace picket of the MOD was David Collins, a former Royal Marine who then worked for years on renewable energy, is a delegate to Veterans for Peace USA and on the executive of MAW. Transcript for his talk is available here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFDlxUGt4Fc&ab_channel=MAW%3AMovementfortheAbolitionofWar
Iraq: Ignoring the Expert Weapons Inspectors Proved to Be a Fatal Mistake
This account of the build-up to the Iraq war by Robert Kelley is a superb succinct summary. Still, to this day, no one has been held accountable for this devastating illegal invasion. Instead, as Kelley says, it’s passed off as ‘a story of faulty and inadequate intelligence, rather than robust and reliable intelligence information ignored.’ … Continue reading Iraq: Ignoring the Expert Weapons Inspectors Proved to Be a Fatal Mistake
TPNS at XR’S THE BIG ONE
Friday 21st April was an amazing day of XR organised activity. Day one of four days was dedicated to pickets of every major government department. Under the banner Unite to Survive more than 200 organisations came together to form a ‘movement of movements’. The demand was for elected representatives do all and everything necessary to … Continue reading TPNS at XR’S THE BIG ONE
IPCC – We need to talk about the military
The IPCC final synthesis report of this AR6 cycle tells us we are overshooting 1.5 degrees. Governments know what this means. Our home planet is nearing 2 degrees of warming. From there, all bets are off. When people and planet desperately need urgent 21st century answers to a 20th century made catastrophe, with Code Red warnings … Continue reading IPCC – We need to talk about the military
Transform defence for sustainable human safety 