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Paul Jay, The Real News Network: Robert Pollin, the co-director of the Policy Economic Research Institute, speaks about the Pentagon and how we need an industrial policy aimed at jobs and a green economy, not massive public spending on the military.

http://www.truth-out.org/video/item/19968-america-has-an-industrial-policy-its-run-by-the-pentagon

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Guns Or Butter?

The Pentagon s Doctored Ledgers Conceal Epic Waste

By Scot J. Paltrow

The $8.5 trillion in taxpayer money doled out by Congress to the Pentagon since 1996, has never been accounted for. That sum exceeds the value of China s economic output last year.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36908.htm



Pentagon concealed massive fraud for years

For nearly two decades, the US Department of Defense has concealed waste and fraud totaling $8.5 trillion, according to a new report by Reuters.

http://www.shajiullahfirasat.com/world/pentagon-concealed-massive-fraud-years/



Massive Pentagon Waste, Fraud and Grand Theft

"Former military service officials say record-keeping at the operational level throughout the services is rife with made-up numbers to cover lost or missing information."

http://sjlendman.blogspot.mx/2013/11/massive-pentagon-waste-fraud-and-grand.html



Pentagon Approves Record Sale Of Advanced Arms To Countries At War

Today s high-tech weapons manufacturers are enjoying record sales. The State Department s Military Assistance Report stated that it approved $44.28 billion in arms shipments to 173 nations in the last fiscal year.

http://www.mintpressnews.com/pentagon-approves-record-sale-of-advanced-arms-to-countries-at-war/173618/



How are Americans Endangered?

By Feed Fred

should we expect the Pentagon to win wars? It has nothing to gain by winning, and everything to lose.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37151.htm


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=industrial+policy
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Stephen+Lendman
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By Ralph Nader

Does the future of our country benefit from Hillary, another Clinton, another politician almost indistinguishable from Barack Obama s militaristic, corporatist policies garnished by big money donors from Wall Street and other plutocratic canyons?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36811.htm



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http://ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/11730/

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A Million Veterans Injured In Iraq, Afghanistan Wars

The International Business Times reported Friday that the Department of Veterans Affairs had stopped releasing the number of non-fatal casualties of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, thus concealing what the paper called a "grim milestone" of 1 million injuries.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccaruiz/2013/11/04/report-a-million-veterans-injured-in-iraq-afghanistan-wars/


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Iraq
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