US Weaponizes Nearly Every Major World Conflict | Brainwash Update

[DeSwiss]

breakingtheset * Published on Jul 17, 2014

Abby Martin reports on the militant group ISIS seizing 52 US-made heavy artillery cannons, going over several other examples of US weapons playing a role in almost every major global conflict.

- John McCain says there'll be hell to pay if the weapons to shoot down the Malaysian Boeing-777 were Russian-made. He must be pissed at the market-share loss. The US is the world's leaders in the sale (secret and open), loss, and outright giving away of weapons to terrorists groups and damn near anyone with a trigger finger, and we don't want the damn Ruskies horning-in on our action, dammit!

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I keep waiting for somebody to say: "Cut" -- and then everything will go back to normal.....

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. We decry all of the violence, while arming everyone in sight.

The US is the NRA writ large, pushing guns on everyone in the name of 'defending themselves', even voting to hand another $350 million to Israel to make sure they can launder that US taxpayer money back to the rich people who own the munitions corporations. It's all about the money. It's ALWAYS about the money. We don't care how many deaths we enable, as long as we can move more money into the pockets of the rich.

[heaven05]

4. "The US is the NRA writ large"

I love it for it's TRUTH. Such hypocrisy in this world. And I really am sick of it.

[cprise]

9. That is what it has come to (infographic...)

U.S. Arms Sales Make Up Most of Global Market


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/27/world/middleeast/us-foreign-arms-sales-reach-66-3-billion-in-2011.htm

U.S. leads global arms exports surge
http://economy.money.cnn.com/2013/06/27/weapons-exports/

Rio de Janeiro's Igarape Institute visualises global arms trade
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23822086

[doxydad]

2. Pitiful.

Why do we need all those damned weapons? WHY?


(Knuckle dragging Tea Baggers need not reply, I already know your genius line of thought about 'more guns!!!')

[zeemike]

6. I could suggest an answer to your question.

Money...there is lots of money to be made in war...remember that business plan is golden, because war consumes weapons and so they must always be replaced.

[newfie11]

3. Heartbreaking

And no end in sight.
Money money is the goal and screw the harm done!

[ReRe]

5. Give me your shoulder...

... I have a headache from banging my head against the wall too many times this a.m.

[L0oniX]

7. Let's not leave out Sweden who is the third largest manufacturer and exporter of weapons.

[cprise]

10. Are you sure? This shows France as a distant 3rd

http://economy.money.cnn.com/2013/06/27/weapons-exports/

[heaven05]

11. you are right

don't let distractions/deflections keep the truth from being put out there. The truth is the U.S. is the largest supplier of lethal killing implements to the whole world of conflict(s) and to all sides. Gawd bless america and the capitalistic, wholly profit driven, war enabling machine that so many americans are so proud of..

[RufusTFirefly]

8. In 1934, the Nye Committee attempted to nationalize the arms industry

Needless to say, the Committee's efforts were thwarted.

There was a widespread belief that so-called "merchants of death" spearheaded a profit-driven effort to encourage U.S. intervention into World War I. The Committee named names and came to some forceful conclusions, most of which are just as relevant today:

The committee finds, under the head of the effect of armament, on peace, that some of the munitions companies have occasionally had opportunities to intensify the fears of people for their neighbors and have used them to their own profit.

The committee finds, further, that the very quality which in civilian life tends to lead toward progressive civilization, namely the improvements of machinery, has been used by the munitions makers to scare nations into a continued frantic expenditure for the latest improvements in devices of warfare. The constant message of the traveling salesman of the munitions companies to the rest of the world has been that they now had available for sale something new, more dangerous and more deadly than ever before and that the potential enemy was or would be buying it.

While the evidence before this committee does not show that wars have been started solely because of the activities of munitions makers and their agents, it is also true that wars rarely have one single cause, and the committee finds it to be against the peace of the world for selfishly interested organizations to be left free to goad and frighten nations into military activity.

The committee finds, further, that munitions companies engaged in bribery find themselves involved in the civil and military politics of other nations, and that this is an unwarranted form of intrusion into the affairs of other nations and undesirable representation of the character and methods of the people of the United States.