US prison labour, foreign weapons-makers finance Australian government think tank ASPI
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute is not only funded by the Defence Department but also receives sponsorship money from foreign governments, weapons manufacturers, and US corporations that have used or are using prison workers paid as little as 23 cents an hour. Marcus Reubenstein reports.
Sinophobia Inc: Understanding the Anti-China Industrial Complex
The revolving door of the military-industrial complex crosses party lines. Take Randall Schriver, a China hawk hand-picked by Steve Bannon to serve as the Trump Administration’s Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs. Schriver was the founding president of the Project 2049 Institute, a hardline security think tank funded by weapons giants like Lockheed Martin and General Atomics and government entities including the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense and the National Endowment for Democracy. Predictably, under Schriver’s leadership, Project 2049 called for increased arms sales to Japan and Taiwan while sounding the alarm on the supposed threat of a “flash invasion” of Taiwan or a “sharp war” with Japan.
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The U.S. Army has bought two Iron Dome batteries to fill a cruise missile threat gap as an interim solution while it continues to shape its future Indirect Fires Protection Capability being developed to battle against not just cruise missiles but unmanned aircraft threats, rockets, artillery and mortars.
Twitter’s decision came after close collaboration with a deeply controversial U.S. and Australian government-funded think tank that has been denounced by Australia’s former ambassador in Beijing as “the architect of the China threat theory in Australia.”
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President Trump sees arms deals as jobs generators for firms like Raytheon, which has made billions in sales to the Saudi coalition. The Obama administration initially backed the Saudis too, but later regretted it as thousands died.
The US Army has scrapped the planned purchase of Israeli-made Iron Dome missile defense system over cybersecurity concerns.
— Read on www.mintpressnews.com/us-army-cites-cybersecurity-concerns-scrapping-purchase-israel-iron-dome/265644/
The Media and the Military Mindset – CounterPunch.org
— Read on www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/22/the-media-and-the-military-mindset/
The Members of Congress Who Profit From War – Sludge
— Read on readsludge.com/2020/01/13/the-members-of-congress-who-profit-from-war/
Chinese news agency reports that an interceptor missile from the David Sling
— Read on www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5620230,00.html
Kurt Volker, who resigned from his post on Friday, had an unusual job arrangement at the State Department.
— Read on www.politico.com/story/2019/09/28/trump-ukraine-kurt-volker-1517874
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