Trump Administration Pushing Military Action
In light of the propaganda buildup we're seeing, intended to generate support for military action against Russia and further actions against Syria, we're producing a series of venn diagrams showing the overlap of prominent companies in the military industrial complex and the federal government. The survival of these corporations depends on continual U.S. engagement in weaponized conflict and the military's ongoing consumption of their products.
These companies have employed lobbyists and specialists who were also hired as staff members of agencies and committees handling defense-related decisions, including the Defense Department, the departments of the Army and Navy, the House and Senate Armed Services committees, and various appropriations committees. Government staff positions like these allow former and future employees of companies like Raytheon the ability to influence the direction of military funding, the awarding of contracts, even decisions on when and how often to engage in military conflict.
Of special note is the fact that President Trump nominated former Raytheon lobbyist Mark Esper for a top-ranking position as United States Secretary of the Army. According to journalist Jared Keller, "[T]he Trump administration has the most generals in executive branch leadership positions since World War II [and] more than half of the White House’s federal nominees have close financial ties to the industries they are being appointed to oversee, setting up a tangle of conflicts-of-interest that could mire the Army in unnecessary political distractions."
Syrian Conflict = Raytheon Profits
Whenever military action against Syria is discussed, Raytheon stock tends to go up, as the Tomahawk missiles used in past attacks on Syrian military targets were produced by Raytheon Missile Systems, Co., based in Arizona. The Guardian published an article in mid-December defending the Syrian Civil Defence (White Helmets), a group pitted against both the Assad regime in Syria and Russian authorities -- two targets recent propaganda has been actively demonizing in an attempt to generate support for military action. Since this new round of anti-Syrian propaganda has been implemented, stock in Raytheon has risen considerably.
(stock charts from NASDAQ.com)
and there will be Rage Against the Machine again, playing on the streets of ny and washington :)
so important!
Thank you so much for sharing this, @Geke.
While I have read some on the topic, and have seen the conflicts-of-interest reflected in most all of the president's appointments, the sheer amount of distraction and destruction continues to draw attention away from many of these critically important problems!
Thank you for helping to educate and keep our eyes on the many problems that need to be held in the minds of constituents so it can hopefully be reflected in the will of the people in future elections, if not immedately confronted now.
War is a racket and big business. Lots of profits to be made, therefore you can't have peace.
Damn you masters of war
Raytheon saw their stock price rise 30% in 2017 thanks to the complete destruction of Yemen by their missiles. Blood money, plain and simple.
Everything is related with each other.Country like America,Russia they heavily rely on their weapon industry.To support their weapon industry they need more war all around the globe.The influential people from weapon industry is convincing every one they need.The more war happens their sells goes up.Now what can be done?If those country stop depending on arms selling to different areas,that is the only thing can happen.But president like trump is surely not going to do that.@upvoted
The Light shall shine on truth - it can not hide.
Thanks Geke!
War is a racket
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Thanks for the information.
great to share.
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I believe that nearly all war is a racket. Some of it is unavoidable and spontaneous, yes, but the rest is planned. We are all being led to the slaughter and there seems to be nothing we can do about it. The serfs are all too happy to serve their masters.