por Marco A. Gandásegui, h. 29 de octubre, 2009 El Senado de EEUU aprobó en octubre de 2009 el presupuesto militar más elevado para un país en la historia humana: Un total de 626 mil millones de dólares. Esta suma no incluye otros 400 mil millones que EEUU está invirtiendo en sus guerras en Irak y Afganistán. [...]

HSBC earned more than £650m in fees from work for Textron, US manufacturer of cluster weapons by Nick Mathiason October 29, 2009 The deadly trade in cluster bombs is funded by the world’s biggest banks who have loaned or arranged finance worth $20bn (£12.5bn) to firms producing the controversial weapons, despite growing international efforts to ban them. HSBC, led [...]

The Joys of Perpetual War by Jo Comerford October 20, 2009 So you thought the Pentagon was already big enough? Well, what do you know, especially with the price of the American military slated to grow by at least 25% over the next decade? Forget about the butter. It’s bad for you anyway. And sheer military power, as well [...]

by T. Christian Miller, ProPublica and Aram Roston September 18, 2009 Last spring, the U.S. diplomatic mission in Iraq got a makeover,replacing the scandal-plagued Blackwater private security company with a firm named Triple Canopy. The new $1 billion contract cemented Triple Canopy’s status as the pre-eminent provider of private security services in Iraq, with its heavily armed employees [...]