Almost immediately after the United States assassinated Iranian General Qassim Suleimani in a drone strike Thursday night, major American weapons manufacturers and defense contractors—from Northrop Grumman to Lockheed Martin to Raytheon—saw their stocks surge as investors sensed the growing likelihood of another costly and deadly war in the Middle East.
-truthout

“Defense contractors spent $84 million lobbying Congress last year, and it certainly wasn’t to promote diplomacy and restraint.”
          -Ro Khanna

i was recalling when the war of terror started up with gee dubya at the hellm some 20 years hence. it feel different now, it feel like iraq with 2020 vision, at least for many more than when the propaganda machine was spinning the narrative of the w.o.t. people know there's an empire now, and they know it is a global killing machine, and nation building is doublespeak for nation destroying for the benefit of the warmongers and the arms industry, with free oil grease the spinning wheels. we're tired of paying for wholesale murder in support of the criminal syndicate they call american democracy.