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Is the US Monopolizing War? (Arms and Spending Proliferation, US Wars and Military Action, US Weapons Sales Abroad)

Military operations and arms sales are what America knows best. 

Tom Engelhardt
Confessions of a Recovering Weapons Addict (War and Peace, US Weapons Sales Abroad, Economy)

Weapons manufacturing in America is still going strong, even if the wisdom or morality of arms deals is rarely discussed.

William J. Astore
Mexicans Reject US-Backed Drug War
Mexicans Reject US-Backed Drug War (Drug War and Drug Policy, US Weapons Sales Abroad, World)

Tens of thousands marched to Mexico City on May 8 to protest the rising death toll and demand a new “citizens’ pact.”

Laura Carlsen
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Unfit to Be King (Iraqi Reconstruction and Occupation, US Military, US Weapons Sales Abroad)

He might have the toughest detail this war has to offer.

Geoffrey Gray
The Guns of Kabul (Regions and Countries, US Weapons Sales Abroad)

Unless the number of arms is reduced dramatically, peace is unlikely to hold.

Ken Silverstein

Blogs

The Folly of Arming Syria's Rebels
Robert Dreyfuss

In Washington, the drumbeat is intensifying for yet another Middle East civil war.

February 28, 2013
US Sells Three-Fourths of Worldwide Arms
Robert Dreyfuss

At least we’re exporting something.

August 27, 2012
For the First Time Ever, They Had a Revolution...

Let's keep Washington Bullets in mind thinking about Egypt.

February 12, 2011
US Delivering F-16s to Pakistan This Weekend
Jeremy Scahill

The US says the planes will help Pakistan to "strike terrorists within their borders." Lockheed Martin cashes in on the deal.

June 24, 2010
Pakistan's Two Air Wars
Jeremy Scahill

US drones bomb Pakistan regularly. Now, Washington is about to deliver twenty F-16s and surveillance planes to Islamabad along with a thousand 500-pound bombs.

May 12, 2010