Corporations were the primary beneficiaries of the 20-year US ‘Global War on Terror’ following the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. According to a new study published by Brown University’s Costs of War project on Monday, September 13, out of around USD 14 trillion spent by the Pentagon since the war, almost half went to private defense contractors in the US. The study … [Read more...] about Almost 7 trillion dollars spent by US on defense since 2001 went to private companies
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Since 9/11, US Has Spent $21 Trillion on Militarism at Home and Abroad
In the 20 years since the September 11 attacks, the United States government has spent more than $21 trillion at home and overseas on militaristic policies that led to the creation of a vast surveillance apparatus, worsened mass incarceration, intensified the war on immigrant communities, and caused incalculable human suffering in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, and … [Read more...] about Since 9/11, US Has Spent $21 Trillion on Militarism at Home and Abroad
20 years of ‘war on terror’ have caused nearly a million deaths, says report
The US-led war on terror has killed almost a million people and cost USD 8 trillion in the last 20 years, says a report published on Wednesday, September 1, by the Brown University’s Cost of War project. The report points out that though foreign troops have withdrawn from Afghanistan, US taxpayers will continue to bear the cost of the war for a long time to come. According … [Read more...] about 20 years of ‘war on terror’ have caused nearly a million deaths, says report
US Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 “Victim Nations” Since World War II
Let us put this in historical perspective: the commemoration of the War to End All Wars acknowledges that 15 million lives were lost in the course of World War I (1914-18). The loss of life in the second World War (1939-1945) was on a much larger scale, when compared to World War I: 60 million lives both military and civilian were lost during World War II. (Four times … [Read more...] about US Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 “Victim Nations” Since World War II
