US: Business booming for U.S. defense contractors
U.S. defence contractors are riding high these days, buoyed by rising Pentagon spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the high cost of homeland security in the U.S.-declared war on...
View ArticleKATRINA: Northrop Makes Pitch for Storm Aid
The Northrop Grumman Corporation, the largest builder of warships in the world, was on a charm offensive here Tuesday. Armed with slides and charts, Philip A. Teel, who runs Northrop's shipyards, led a...
View ArticleUS: Bush Turns to Big Military Contractors for Border Control
The quick fix may involve sending in the National Guard. But to really patch up the broken border, President Bush is preparing to turn to a familiar administration partner: the nation's giant military...
View ArticleINDIA: Building a Modern Arsenal in India
India is developing a military appetite to match its growing economic power. With a ballooning arms budget, India will soon become one of the largest military markets in the world, making it an...
View ArticleDomestic Spying, Inc.
A new U.S. intelligence institution will allow government spy agencies to conduct broad surveillance and reconnaissance inside the country for the first time. Contractors like Boeing, BAE Systems,...
View ArticleUK: FBI wants instant access to British identity data
Americans seek international database to carry iris, palm and finger prints
View ArticleUS: The Looming Crisis at the Pentagon
Like much of the rest of the world, Americans know that the U.S. automotive industry is in the grips of what may be a fatal decline. A similar crisis exists when it comes to the military-industrial...
View ArticleUS: Contractors Vie for Plum Work, Hacking for U.S. Government
The Obama administration
View ArticleCompanies lobby (quietly) on Armenia genocide bill
In an effort to keep business ties with Turkey, five military contractors and one energy company (Chevron) lobby against a U.S. bill that would label Turkey's slaugther of a million Aremnians during...
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