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Peter Riley

#AmnestyInternational report on companies that enable and profit from Israel’s #genocide U.S. military contractors #Boeing and #LockheedMartin, the Israeli arms companies #Elbit Systems, #Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries, the South Korean conglomerate #Hyundai and the U.S. tech company #Palantir Technologies.
amnesty.org/en/documents/pol40

#militaryindustrialcomplex #PoliticalEconomy

Interview about
democracynow.org/2025/9/18/amn

Amnesty InternationalPULL THE PLUG ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY ENABLING ISRAEL’S CRIMES: WHAT STATES AND COMPANIES MUST DO TO STOP FUELING ISRAEL’S GENOCIDE, APARTHEID AND UNLAWFUL OCCUPATION - Amnesty InternationalAmnesty International is calling on states, international, municipal and other public institutions and bodies and companies and other private organizations to step up their pressure on Israel to abide by its international obligations and put an end to the genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the unlawful military occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory […]
Miguel Afonso Caetano

"One thing that's evident about President Donald Trump's proposal for the Golden Dome missile defense shield is that designing, deploying, and sustaining it will cost a lot of money, at least several hundred billion dollars, over the course of several decades.

Beyond that, it's really anyone's guess. That doesn't sit well with some lawmakers, but the Republican-controlled Congress committed $25 billion in July as a down payment for new missile-defense technologies.

The White House stated in May that Golden Dome will cost $175 billion over three years, but a new study from a center-right think tank concludes that it is simply not enough to develop the kind of multi-layer shield Trump described in a January executive order. It's also clear that it will take longer than three years to implement the full spectrum of defense capability envisioned for Golden Dome.

"The capabilities this level of funding can buy fall far short of what the president promised, creating a multi-trillion-dollar gap between rhetoric and reality," wrote Todd Harrison, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

In announcing Golden Dome, the White House said the program must defend the US homeland against many types of aerial threats, including ballistic, hypersonic, and advanced cruise missiles, plus "other next-generation aerial attacks," a category that appears to include drones and shorter-range unguided missiles."

arstechnica.com/space/2025/09/

Ars Technica · Trump’s Golden Dome will cost 10 to 100 times more than the Manhattan ProjectBy Stephen Clark
#USA#Trump#Militarization
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Peter Riley

Workers and Students Denounce Lockheed Martin’s Responsibility in the Genocide of the Palestinian People.
Lək̓wəŋən and WSÁNEĆ Territories. #Esquimalt British Columbia.

mediacoop.ca/node/119307

The Media Co-op · [MEDIA RELEASE] Against Lockheed Martin’s Complicity in Genocide in PalestineWorkers and Students Denounce Lockheed Martin’s Responsibility in the Genocide of the Palestinian People September 3, 2025 | Lək̓wəŋən and WSÁNEĆ Territories. Today, workers and students are gathering at Lockheed Martin’s facilities in Esquimalt, British Columbia, to protest the arms manufacturer’s role in the genocide of the Palestinian people. According to the Gaza Health Ministry, at least 60,138 people in Gaza have been killed since October 7, 2023—approximately 1 in every 37 people, with an average of 91 deaths per day.
#antimilitarism#LockheedMartin#militaryindustrialcomplex
NotImpressed

#USEmpire #MilitaryIndustrialComplex

"...the Trump administration is considering taking stakes in major US weapons firms"
US Commerce Secretary Lutnick: “Lockheed Martin makes 97% of their revenue from the US government. They are basically an arm of the US government"
"Major US weapons firms already have a significant influence on US policy"
I hope Trump government's intervention is going to negatively impact production and innovation.

news.antiwar.com/2025/08/26/tr

News From Antiwar.comTrump Administration Considers Taking Stakes in Major US Weapons Firms - News From Antiwar.comUS Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Tuesday that the Trump administration is considering taking stakes in major US weapons firms, comments that came after the US government announced it was acquiring a 10% stake in Intel, the US chip-making giant. "Oh, there’s a monstrous discussion about defense," Lutnick said…
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