US Defence Department Awards Boeing $2.6 Billion in Cruise Missile Contracts

US Defence Department Awards Boeing $2.6 Billion in Cruise Missile Contracts

“The Boeing Company of St. Louis, Missouri is awarded a $1,971,754,089… contract to provide non-recurring engineering associated with the Stand-off Land Attack Missile – Expanded Response (SLAM ER) obsolescence redesign effort as well as the production and delivery of 650 SLAM ER missiles in support of the government of Saudi Arabia”, the release said on Wednesday.

Merchants of Death: Multibillion-Dollar Bailout for Arms Industry Amid Rising COVID Toll

Merchants of Death: Multibillion-Dollar Bailout for Arms Industry Amid Rising COVID Toll

“I have instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea,” US President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday in a startling threat that could trigger a catastrophic war throughout the Middle East and beyond.

The threat to launch a war 7,000 miles from US shores in the midst of coronavirus pandemic, whose death toll in the US is rapidly approaching 50,000, comes on the heels of Trump’s Monday night tweet announcing a suspension of all immigration into the United States, a transparent attempt to scapegoat immigrants for the ravages of the pandemic and the layoffs of tens of millions of workers.

⁉️ CORONAVIRUS SURVIVORS ‘PERMANENTLY DISQUALIFIED’ FROM JOINING U.S. MILITARY, RECRUITMENT MEMO SUGGESTS

CORONAVIRUS SURVIVORS ‘PERMANENTLY DISQUALIFIED’ FROM JOINING U.S. MILITARY, RECRUITMENT MEMO SUGGESTS

The ban may also result from limited research on COVID-19, as there's still much that's unknown about the virus, the permanence and assessment of its damage on the lungs and body, whether the virus can reemerge in those who've seemingly recovered from it, and whether prior infection makes a person more immune or susceptible to catching it again.
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