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 [...]
Tags: Africa, BAE Systems, Democratic Republic of Congo, ECGD, Export Credits Guarantee Department, Land Rover, Mugabe, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe
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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 [...]
Tags: Abu Dhabi, BAE Systems, Blackwater Worldwide, Chalmers Johnson, Embassies and Consulates, Erik Prince, General Dynamics, Government, Lockheed Martin, middle east, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Tariq Ali, United Arab Emirates, United States
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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 [...]
Tags: BAE Systems, Barack Obama, CACI, Charlottesville Virginia, Concurrent Technologies Corporation, General Dynamics, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Northrop Grumman, Saudi Arabia, United States, Virginia Army National Guard
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