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MPs to ask firms to explain how UK taxes helped dictators build arsenals Among questionable ethical deals was £35m lent to Robert Mugabe and spent on BAE’s Hawk fighter jets

May 8, 2012
MPs to ask firms to explain how UK taxes helped dictators build arsenals  Among questionable ethical deals was £35m lent to Robert Mugabe and spent on BAE’s Hawk fighter jets

Robert Mugabe bought five BAE systems Hawk jets between 1989 and 1992 and deployed them in the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Photograph: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images MPs to ask firms to explain how UK taxes helped dictators build arsenals Among questionable ethical deals was £35m lent to Robert Mugabe and spent on BAE’s [...]

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War sales event. Arming the UAE yet another step to ‘stability’.

June 9, 2011
War sales event. Arming the UAE yet another step to ‘stability’.

The imperial project relies on money from arms as a life blood. The US economy may very well be only one short step from only being capable of producing weapons of mass destruction, anything else will be made elsewhere. The profits from arms have always been enormous, but the trade comes with a lethal and fatal price [...]

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Posted in US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, USA, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War and economics, War Crimes, War is a crime, War on drugs, War on terror, Waterboarding | No Comments »

Is there a military industrial complex near you?

April 25, 2011
Is there a military industrial complex near you?

                  Your Local Military Industrial Complex By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/57616 As in any other U.S. city, things are looking up for    Charlottesville, Va., job seekers who don’t mind helping to kill    tons of people for no good reason. This week’s “community      job fair” features some prominent members [...]

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