Military Industrial Complex

The Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform Act sponsored by Senators Carl Levin (D-MI) and John McCain (R-AZ) was intended to improve the Pentagon’s acquisition process, fraught with nearly $300 billion in cost overruns on 95 major weapons systems. more »

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For some time now, people have been wondering how the historical Presidential legacy of George W. Bush will read. That it will be terrible, is now almost universal in consensus. I'm now thinking how the legacy of the most authoritarian, abusive of power, secretive, Vice President in U.S. history should read also. more »

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For quite a while I have been critically looking at what I’ve been writing. It hasn’t been grammar and punctuation that have concerned me; it has been the style, the content and the political meaning which is part and parcel of what a political writer does when writing. Lately I have been wondering exactly where I stand politically. more »

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