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War Industry’s Accountants Can’t Count

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Published: Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

The war profiteers’ shady lobbying campaign took another hit to its credibility today, as an accounting firm on which they relied to support their bogus “military spending = jobs” argument was cited for severe audit deficiencies. As our new War Costs short video shows, the war industry’s Second To None lobbying effort specifically cited numbers [...]

Job Creation at Home Requires Peace Abroad

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Published: Friday, December 9th, 2011

As more Americans sour on our 10-year-old national nation-building experiment in Afghanistan, there’s a growing community of policy mandarins, activists and elites uniting to expose the myriad of ways war spending and military contracting have plunged our nation into a jobs crisis. The existing counter insurgency operation in Afghanistan is hurting the American economy, and [...]

Lockheed Martin’s CEO Wants Your Social Security Check

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Published: Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

The law that created the deficit committee also created a zero-sum game: Any expensive program that escapes the budget knife does so at the expense of cuts to other programs. If the military contractors succeed in keeping the war budget intact, they’ll likely do so at the expense of Social Security and Medicare. That means [...]

Panetta Starts Singing Contractors’ Tune After Closed-Door Meeting

By Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe
Published: Friday, September 16th, 2011

Well, that didn’t take very long. Two days ago, while representatives of war profiteers were on the Hill trying to push elected officials to protect their profit margins from the deficit committee, heads of the war industry met in a closed-door meeting with Defense Secretary Panetta. The next day, the war contractors held a press [...]

The War Industry: Bad Job Creators, Bad Bosses, Bad Stewards of Tax Dollars

By Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe
Published: Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

On Tuesday, the military contractors behind the “Second To None” campaign pleaded “no comment” to our War Costs campaign’s full-page Politico ad exposing the economic damage caused by massive war budgets. The same day, they announced a press conference and the upcoming launch of a national campaign to scare people about job losses if we [...]

Corrupt Contractors Make Their Move on the Deficit Committee

By Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe
Published: Monday, September 12th, 2011

The new deficit commission will hold its first substantive meeting on Tuesday, and the military contractors will be out in force to protect their profits. They’ll be working to cash in on hundreds millions of dollars in campaign donations and lobbying spending, and they’ll deploy their favorite (and bogus) “jobs” spin. But members of the [...]

The War Budget Is Burning Down Our Economy

By Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe
Published: Thursday, September 8th, 2011

President Obama will talk jobs tonight. Good. That’s what we should have been talking about all year. Here’s all thirty-five words of our suggested script for the speech: “Good evening. To get Americans working again, we must cut our massive war budget and find better ways to spend that money. Thank you, God bless you, [...]

193,000 Jobs: The true cost of the wasted $60 billion in Iraq/Afghanistan

By Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe
Published: Friday, September 2nd, 2011

193,000 jobs. That’s what we could have created, at minimum, for the money that war contractors wasted in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that “as $60 billion in U.S. funds has been lost to waste and fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade through lax oversight of contractors, poor [...]