It is impossible to overstate the importance of the War Resisters League’s office at 339 Lafayette Street in the formation of Witness Against Torture in 2005. In December of that year, 25 Catholic activists violated the Bush administration’s bans on travel to Cuba (technically, they just didn’t want travelers to spend any in Cuba) and walked more than…
WANTED: Name: Alliant Techsystems Corporate Headquarters: Edina, Minnesota Primary Products/Services: Bullets, artillery, cluster and depleted uranium munitions, mine systems CEO: Dan Murphy Total 2006 Sales: $3.1 Billion Campaign Contributions: $175,360 (2002 – 2006) BULLETS: A CONSUMABLE PRODUCT The “Long War” needs lots of bullets. With the United States fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan and training…
Excerpted from “It Runs in the Family: On Being Raised by Radicals and Growing into Rebellious Motherhood” (O/R Books, 2014) In 2005, I helped to establish Witness Against Torture when 25 of us flew to Cuba with the hope of gaining access to Guantánamo Bay, the U.S. naval base where more than 700 men, called…
Landmines ‘R’ Us Textron started in 1923 as a small textile company. During World War II it supplied the military with parachutes and landing boats. After the war, the company became known for its bed linens and lingerie. Decades later, Textron has grown to encompass everything from EZ-Go golf carts and boats to recreational Cessna…
WANTED: Halliburton Aliases/Subsidiaries Kellogg Brown and Root Cheney’s side gig Corporate Headquarters 5 Houston Center 1401 McKinney Houston, TX 77010-4008 Primary Products/Services Oil, energy, construction and military servicing CEO David J. Lesar Pentagon Contracts 2005 $ 5.8 billion Campaign contributions 2001-2006 $ 826,702 94% to Republicans Halliburton is the poster child for waste, fraud, and…
The Bomb By Howard Zinn City Lights Publishers, 2010, 91 pages, $8.95 Bombing from the air makes war seem easy, effective, and bloodless—at least to those of us far from the ground zeroes. “To this day,” Howard Zinn writes, “the victims’ realities of aerial bombings [are] lost to most people in the United States, a…
Voices from All Sides We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now Edited by Murray Polner and Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Basic Books, 1008, 368 pages. $16.95 In this compilation, the two editors have crossed the left-right chasm in our political and cultural landscape to compile voices from…
WANTED:SAI, Inc. Aliases/SubsidiariesBechtel SAIC Corporation LLC, a joint venture with Bechtel to “meet the unique challenge of science and engineering for the Yucca Mountain Project;” ANXeBusiness Corp., a computer corporation; Data Systems & Solutions, a joint venture with Rolls Royce. Corporate HeadquartersSan Diego, CA Primary Products/ServicesEngineering and technical solutions, secret military technologies, flashlights, super computers,…
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