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big brother isn't listening to you, he's talking to you!
Mar 17, 2011 @ 16:22
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Mar 30, 2011 @ 10:30
How a Giant Weapons Maker Became the New Big Brother
Is Lockheed Martin Shadowing You?
Is Lockheed Martin Shadowing You?
By WILLIAM D. HARTUNG
Have you noticed that Lockheed Martin, the giant weapons corporation, is shadowing you? No? Then you haven't been paying much attention. Let me put it this way: If you have a life, Lockheed Martin is likely a part of it.
True, Lockheed Martin doesn't actually run the U.S. government, but sometimes it seems as if it might as well. After all, it received $36 billion in government contracts in 2008 alone, more than any company in history. It now does work for more than two dozen government agencies from the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy to the Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency. It's involved in surveillance and information processing for the CIA, the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Pentagon, the Census Bureau, and the Postal Service.
William D. Hartung is the director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation and the author of Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex (Nation Books, January 2011).
This essay originally appeared on Tom Dispatch.
The text you are quoting:
How a Giant Weapons Maker Became the New Big Brother
Is Lockheed Martin Shadowing You?
Marksist, Mar 30, 2011 @ 10:30
Is Lockheed Martin Shadowing You?
By WILLIAM D. HARTUNG
Have you noticed that Lockheed Martin, the giant weapons corporation, is shadowing you? No? Then you haven't been paying much attention. Let me put it this way: If you have a life, Lockheed Martin is likely a part of it.
True, Lockheed Martin doesn't actually run the U.S. government, but sometimes it seems as if it might as well. After all, it received $36 billion in government contracts in 2008 alone, more than any company in history. It now does work for more than two dozen government agencies from the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy to the Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency. It's involved in surveillance and information processing for the CIA, the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Pentagon, the Census Bureau, and the Postal Service.
William D. Hartung is the director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation and the author of Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex (Nation Books, January 2011).
This essay originally appeared on Tom Dispatch.
http://www.counterpunch.org/hartung01112011.html
Marksist, Mar 30, 2011 @ 10:30
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