If paying Pashtun drivers to truck fuel from Pakistan into Afghanistan is producing any positive economic side effects, the American worker is not among the beneficiaries.
••• Pish-posh! The American worker is free to enlist at any time.
Camp Bucca, the sprawling former prison once run by the U.S. military in southern Iraq, will be turned into a commercial center with offices, warehouses, aviation and fuel services to support investors.
••• Alternatively, the American worker could apply to stock warehouse shelves in Basra.
After shooting the man, referred to in court as Karimullah, Langdon then tried to stage a fake Taliban attack in which he had colleagues shoot randomly into the air before he threw a hand grenade inside the vehicle in which Karimullah lay dead.
••• The company that employed this enterprising worker is called Four Horsemen International. No one expected problems? (Via Antony Lowenstein.)
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“Lockheed Martin has also funded right-wing think tanks that have done everything from press for war with Iraq to lobby for the “Star Wars” missile defense program.” [It uses] these think tanks to make the points that are “embarrassing to make themselves.”
••• William Hartung has a new book about the Lockheed “shadow government.” Here’s the short version.
Private industry is shaping US foreign policy. The defense industry was already strong before our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Lockheed, Raytheon, General Dynamics, BAE were already quite robust and developed. But they’ve gotten stronger because we’ve just dumped trillions of dollars into Iraq and Afghanistan and they’ve benefited mightily, and now the privatized development industry is growing stronger too.
••• The “scary” militarization of aid.
WE REALLY DO SPEND MORE THAN $1 TRILLION ON WAR
••• If you factor in the interest payments.
The Ministry of Defense does not have information that conscripts are begging.
••• Food rations are up again in Kazakhstan. Food rations are always up.