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by Christian Sorensen
Writer, Dandelion Salad
March 6, 2023
“Conflict is the inevitable result of a rapacious US war industry coupled with a Pentagon that behaves like it owns the world.” — Christian Sorensen
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by Brad Wolf
Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad
November 12, 2022
What is it like to be so ashamed of the company for which you work that you cannot bring yourself to admit you work there? Ashamed of the products they manufacture, the innocent people those products kill, the hundreds of billions of dollars of public taxpayer money squandered in a gluttonous pursuit of profits?
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by Kathy Kelly and Nick Mottern
Guest Writers, Dandelion Salad
October 11, 2022
Awaiting discharge from a hospital in Cairo, Adel Al Manthari, a Yemeni civilian, faces months of physical therapy and mounting medical bills following three surgeries since 2018, when a U.S. weaponized drone killed four of his cousins and left him mangled, burnt and barely alive, bedridden to this day.
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by Tom H. Hastings
Writer, Dandelion Salad
August 21, 2022
My friend Gary left Michigan, went to Sweden years ago, and earned his PhD. He’s a research professor. He was not charged any tuition as long as he continued to qualify and thus held no student debt. That’s how it’s done in much of Europe, at least for public universities.
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by Will Griffin
Writer, Dandelion Salad
August 4, 2022
“There are endless ways outer space can be used in wars of the 21st century but let’s focus on some of the more probable ones.”
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by Will Griffin
Writer, Dandelion Salad
June 29, 2022
“When it comes to launching rockets into outer space, there lies many hidden problems particularly with launch sites. The launching of a rocket before it ever reaches outer space is a major problem. It concerns the environment, nearby wildlife and overwhelmingly impacts the local communities in negative ways.”
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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy, Oct. 24, 2021
October 26, 2021
Daniel Ellsberg is a former U.S. military analyst employed by the RAND Corporation who precipitated a national uproar in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, the U.S. military’s account of activities during the Vietnam War, to The New York Times.
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by Will Griffin
Writer, Dandelion Salad
May 18, 2021
GNspace4peace on May 6, 2021
The Pentagon and multinational corporations are privatizing outer space, placing profit over people. Laws are being implemented in order to benefit billionaires, compromising decades-long international treaties. Exporting American capitalism, colonizing Mars, privatizing asteroids and other celestial bodies are all a continuation of Westward Expansion, Manifest Destiny and American Exceptionalism. We must fight back to keep space for peace before it’s too late!
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by Christian Sorensen
Writer, Dandelion Salad
January 21, 2021
INTRODUCTION
Capitalism—the system by which a relatively tiny group owns the means of production and enriches themselves through hoarding the workers’ surplus value, transforming the natural world into goods and services—is inherently destructive, exploitative, and polluting. Capital is concentrated in very few hands. The richest one percent own half of the world’s wealth (Frank, CNBC, 14 Nov 2017), and the three wealthiest humans in the United States own more wealth than the bottom fifty percent of the population of the country (Kirsch, Forbes, 9 Nov 2017). This trend of the rich getting richer only accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Billionaire wealth skyrocketed while the masses suffered.
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by Christian Sorensen
Writer, Dandelion Salad
December 16, 2020
C.P. Sorensen on Dec 11, 2020
Understanding the War Industry – Chapter 6, excerpt: Brain Drain
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by Christian Sorensen
Writer, Dandelion Salad
September 28, 2020
C.P. Sorensen on Sep 25, 2020
Every duty day around 5PM Eastern, the Pentagon issues contracting announcements (www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Contracts). This video offers a brief introduction to these announcements.
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by Christian Sorensen
Writer, Dandelion Salad
September 25, 2019
C.P. Sorensen on Aug 10, 2019
Today’s episode of War Industry Muster introduces foreign military sales, or FMS.
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by Christian Sorensen
Writer, Dandelion Salad
April 3, 2019
C.P. Sorensen on Mar 31, 2019
The U.S. war industry is comprised of the corporations that develop, market, and sell weapons of war and related goods & services to the Pentagon and allied regimes. In this episode of War Industry Muster we analyze the corporate underpinnings of the Special Relationship.
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