The Pentagonization of US life + Obama and the national security system + Cold War mentality

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Nick Turse and Tom Engelhardt of Tomdispatch.com on the system of militarization…

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Obama and the Cold War mentality
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Gareth Porter: Will Obama be truly post-Cold War?
Historian and author Gareth Porter discusses with Pepe Escobar the positioning of Senator Barack Obama relative to the [...]

Tom ‘Dispatch’ on Bush and the media

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Tom Engelhardt: What corporate media won’t write about.(with Nick Turse)

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Billion-Dollar Babies By Nick Turse

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By Nick Turse
www.tomdispatch.com
June 24, 2008
Five Stealth Pentagon Contractors Reaping Billions of Tax Dollars
The top Pentagon contractors, like death and taxes, almost never change. In 2002, the massive arms dealers Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman ranked one, two, and three among Department of Defense contractors, taking in $17 billion, $16.6 billion, and $8.7 billion. [...]

The Real Matrix - The Pentagon Invades Your Life

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By Nick Turse
TomDispatch (Tom Engelhardt)
April 24, 2008
Rick is a midlevel manager in a financial services company in New York City. Each day he commutes from Weehawken, New Jersey, a suburb only a stone’s throw from the Big Apple, where he lives with his wife, Donna, and his teenage son, Steven. A late baby boomer, [...]

Weaponizing the Pentagon’s Cyborg Insects By Nick Turse

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By Tom Engelhardt
March 30, 2008 4:40 pm
Tomgram: Nick Turse, The Pentagon’s Battle Bugs
We at Tomdispatch love anniversaries. So how could we have forgotten DARPA’s for so many months? This very year, the Pentagon’s research outfit, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), turns 50 old. Happy birthday, DARPA! You were born as a response [...]

Tomgram: Nick Turse, Big-Game Hunting in Iraq By Tom Engelhardt

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By Tom Engelhardt
October 25, 2007
Evidently, Blackwater, the now infamous private security company whose hired guns, working for the State Department, mowed down at least 17 Iraqis in a Baghdad square recently, wants to soften its image. (I wonder why?) The New York Times’ Paul von Zielbauer just reported that the company has redesigned its [...]