The War in Afghanistan Is a Fraud (and Now We Have Proof)

Lee Camp / Truthdig Jan 9, 2020 Let’s take a moment to consider the motivations and goals of this 19-year-old military operation. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

The Moment the Military-Industrial Complex Became Uncontrollable

William D. Hartung / TomDispatch Dec 16, 2019 The underlying trend of the Pentagon's budget has been ever onward and upward. We need to understand why if we're ever going to rein it in. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

The Military-Industrial Complex Baldly Lies About Creating Jobs

By Nia Harris, Cassandra Stimpson, and Ben Freeman / TomDispatch Aug 14, 2019 Companies like Lockheed Martin, which receive taxpayer money, extoll their ability to create jobs while cutting them. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

The Hell We’ve Unleashed on Yemen

Mashal Hashem and James Allen / TomDispatch May 16, 2019 U.S. defense contractors and their lobbyists use a business model that counts innocent Yemenis' deaths as the cost of doing business. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Countries Selling Weapons to Saudi Arabia Weigh War Crimes Against Profits

Naomi LaChance / Truthdig Nov 10, 2018 Germany halted arms sales, but the U.S. keeps lucrative defense deals even as it condemns the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Violent White Supremacist Loses Job With Defense Contractor

A.C. Thompson and Ali Winston / ProPublica Jul 9, 2018 The CEO of Northrop Grumman told employees he was saddened by a report by ProPublica and Frontline concerning Michael Miselis, an aerospace engineer who took part in violence at a Charlottesville, Va., rally last year. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

How the Military-Industrial Complex Preys on the Troops

By William D. Hartung / TomDispatch Oct 11, 2017 A river of taxpayer money fills the coffers of defense contractors, not the pockets of armed forces members. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Russian Threat Is Good for Business, U.S. Defense Contractors Tell Investors

Staff / Truthdig Aug 19, 2016 As the media and politicians work to cast Russia as a great threat to Americans, the arms industry is pressuring NATO member states to spend at least 2 percent of their gross domestic products on weapons and defense systems. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Local Police Receive War’s Leftover Arms

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 9, 2014 As the wars overseas draw to something like a close, it's not just battered GIs that come home. "The former tools of combat -- M-16 rifles, grenade launchers, silencers and more -- are ending up in local police departments, often with little public notice," Matt Apuzzo writes at The New York Times. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Hacking of U.S. Exposes China’s Plan to Manufacture Drones

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Sep 22, 2013 Hackers in Shanghai spent the last two years pursuing plans for the technology behind the United States' most advanced military drones, targeting at least 20 foreign defense contractors in all. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Raytheon Creates Social Media Spy Software (Video)

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Feb 14, 2013 The world's fifth-largest defense contractor has developed a surveillance program that predicts your behavior by tracking the movement of your smartphone and mining public data from sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Pentagon Spends Millions Protecting Uzbekistan Dictator

Staff / Truthdig Nov 27, 2011 Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov is notorious for heading one of the world’s most oppressive regimes, and millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars are being given to a for-profit military contractor turned propaganda machine to make sure he remains a faithful and able ally in the global war on terror. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )