Corporations and their lobbyists continue to develop, maintain and modernize our nuclear arsenal in Washington.
Credit: Nation of Change
Imagine for a moment a genuine absurdity: somewhere in the United States, the highly profitable operations of a set of corporations were based on the possibility that sooner or later your neighborhood would be destroyed and you and all your neighbors annihilated. And not just you and your neighbors, but others and their neighbors across the planet. What would we think of such companies, of such a project, of the mega-profits made off it?
In fact, such companies do exist. They service the American nuclear weapons industry and the Pentagon’s vast arsenal of potentially world-destroying weaponry. They make massive profits doing so, live comfortable lives in our neighborhoods, and play an active role in Washington politics. Most Americans know little or nothing about their activities and the media seldom bother to report on them or their profits, even though the […]
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I had a good friend who worked with me and played golf with me regularly who took a job with Lockeed Martin back in the 1980’s. We wrote back and forth for a few months, and then I got a rather surprising letter in which he stated he could no longer associate with me (using compassionate language) and gave no reason. I am quite sure it was because he was now being told not to associate with me because someone told him I was against war and could not be trusted and that he should not associate with me any more. I guess it was the NSA spying on my emails and posts here and there. I am sure he would have not stopped being my friend unless his job was at stake since he now had a top security clearance, and I might gain classified information, not that I would or could do anything with such information since I am a peace lover and against the proliferation of nuclear weapons, It was a great loss because we were pals. That is what working for one of those companies mentioned does: it isolates their employees from the rest of society so no one would know what their intentions are. I haven’t heard from him since.