2021 Pentagon Budget Request Hints at Russia and China as the New Focus of US Empire

The Pentagon is shifting its strategy, budget and arsenal to focus on a confrontation with Russia and China, writes Darius Shahtahmasebi.
— Read on www.mintpressnews.com/2021-pentagon-budget-request-russia-china/265124/

An M-1 Abrams is unloaded in Bremerhaven, Germany, part of the largest deployment of US forces to Europe in 25 years, Feb. 20, 2020. Photo | DVIDS

Nice color, huh?! Looks like baby diarrhea! 😂

More than 100 US troops suffered traumatic brain injury in Iran strike, military says

More than 100 US troops suffered traumatic brain injury in Iran strike, military says

“The number of US service members diagnosed with traumatic brain injury (TBI) stemming from Iran’s missile attack on a base in Iraq last month has shot up to more than 100, the Pentagon said Monday.

“The department said 109 military members had been treated for mild TBI, a significant increase over the 64 reported a little over a week ago.”

How The Military-Industrial Complex Gets Away With Murder in Contract After Contract

Increasingly, this means contractors are able to hold the Pentagon hostage over a weapon’s lifetime, which means overcharges of just about every imaginable sort, including for labor. The Project On Government Oversight (where I work) has, for instance, been uncovering overcharges in spare parts since our founding, including an infamous $435 hammer back in 1983. I’m sad to report that what, in the 1980s, was a seemingly outrageous $640 plastic toilet-seat cover for military airplanes now costs an eye-popping $10,000. A number of factors help explain such otherwise unimaginable prices, including the way contractors often retain intellectual property rights to many of the systems taxpayers funded to develop, legal loopholes that make it difficult for the government to challenge wild charges, and a system largely beholden to the interests of defense companies.

— Read on www.commondreams.org/views/2020/01/21/how-military-industrial-complex-gets-away-murder-contract-after-contract

Holy crap!