#military–industrial complex

[gregor-samsung]

They say we're lucky as we have freedom of thought and no censorship. This old gruesome post wasn't even in the flagged posts box.

#Iraq War #invasion of Iraq #middle east #War on terror #oil #George W Bush administration #US imperialism #War in Iraq #Obama administration #war on terrorism #Baghdad #civilians #military–industrial complex #US army #children #XXI century #US military interventions #torture #genocide #war crimes #crimes against humanity #manslaughter #murders #kidnapping #human rights violation #Abu Ghraib #shock and awe #Joe Biden #Guantanamo Bay prison #Tony Blair

[sayruq]

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So when you hear about Biden slowing down arms shipment

It's not because he cares about Palestinians (cutting UNRWA funds, because of confessions obtained through torture, should tell you otherwise), it's because he doesn't have a large stockpile of weapons to send.

#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news #news update #war news #war on gaza #genocide #gaza genocide #fuck the idf #military industrial complex #joe biden

[politijohn]

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#end all wars #imperialism #western imperialism #politics #bernie sanders #us politics #government #the left #progressive #twitter post #current events #democrats #military industrial complex #defund the military

[directactionforhope]

U.S. Free Palestine Protests this Weekend: 2/17 through 2/19

2/17 Denver, Colorado Indianapolis, Indiana San Diego, California Seattle, Washington

2/18 Boone, North Carolina Milwaukee, Wisconsin New Orleans, Louisiana

2/19 Aransas Pass, Texas Chicago, Illinois Los Angeles, California - Jews for Ceasefire All-Day Shiva

And there are many more! Check out the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Code Pink, and your local Palestinian and/or Muslim groups for protests in your area!

#free palestine #palestine #israel #cw genocide #gaza #palestinian genocide #direct action #protests #colonialism #military industrial complex #genocide #free gaza #ceasefire #i stand with palestine #stop the genocide #palestine genocide #anti zionisim #anti war #united states #us politics #joe biden #biden administration #biden is a war criminal #palestine protest #denver #colorado #indiana #indianapolis #san diego #california

[serialunaliver]

people when you tell them to perhaps not work at the war crimes factory:

#also how the fuck is voting going to take down the military industrial complex are you serious rn 😭

[twelveskidneys]

steven moffat really said alright how many aspects of modern society can i criticise in the one (1) episode i’m writing for this season

#the military industrial complex #the ethical implications of using ai to generate a person’s image without their consent #the dangers of letting dogma go unquestioned #like. holy fuck??? #doctor who #dw #doctor who spoilers #dw spoilers #dw series 14 #fifteenth doctor

[danu2203]

THE POLICE ARE NOT YOUR FRIEND

#THE MILITARY #INDUSTRIAL #PRISON COMPLEX #DEFUND THE POLICE #BLM

[catshinji]

Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory, explains how Israel tests their weapons in Gaza, and advertises their destructive capabilities to other countries that wish to use these weapons to similarly repress their own populations.

Israel forms a crucial part of the supply chain for the global arms industry, and the impunity with which they operate sets a dangerous precedent for populations around the world.

#gaza #palestine #israel #antony loewenstein #military industrial complex #free palestine #free gaza #imperialism #colonialism

[headspace-hotel]

Researching herbicide resistance in weeds.

A decade ago, everyone said rotating applications of different herbicides was key to stopping herbicide resistance.

Then, around 2015, evidence from a large study emerged saying that this actually causes weeds to be MORE resistant, so the best thing to do is to spray a combination of multiple herbicides mixed together at once.

Now that is being called into question too. Whoda thunk it...

Herbicide resistance among weeds is only getting stronger. Recently, scientists found an annual bluegrass (Poa annua) on a golf course that was resistant to seven herbicide modes of action at once. Seven. SEVEN. Amaranth plants been found with resistance to six herbicide modes of action at once. Twenty years ago, the narrative was that resistance to glyphosate (Roundup) was unlikely to become widespread; today it's the second-most common type of resistance.

What's more, plants are developing types of herbicide resistance that are effective against multiple herbicides at once and harder to detect. Instead of changing the chemical processes within them that are affected by the herbicides so the herbicides don't work as well, they're changing the way they absorb chemicals in the first place. Resistant plants are producing enzymes that detoxify the herbicides before they even enter the plants' cells.

It took Monsanto ten years to develop crop varieties resistant to Dicamba (after weeds made 'Roundup Ready' crops pointless). Palmer amaranth evolved Dicamba resistance in five years.

So I asked, "Why are all the proposed solutions dependent on using more herbicides, when we know damn well that this is going to do nothing but make the weeds evolve faster?"

The answer is that chemical companies have the world in a death grip. They can't make money off non-chemical solutions, so chemical solutions get all the funding, research, and outreach to farmers.

But why do chemical companies have so much power?

One of the biggest reasons is the U.S. military.

In the Vietnam war, all of Vietnam was sprayed with toxic herbicides like Agent Orange, which was incredibly toxic to humans and affected the Vietnamese population with horrible illnesses and birth defects. Monsanto, the company that made the herbicides, knew that it did this, but didn't tell anyone. The US government didn't admit that they'd poisoned humans on a mass scale until Vietnam veterans started dying and coming down with horrible illnesses, and even then, it took them 40 years. (My Papaw died at 60 because of that stuff.) And the soldiers weren't there for very long. As for the Vietnamese people, the soil and water where they live is contaminated.

Similarly, during the "war on drugs," the US military sprayed Roundup and other chemicals on fields to destroy coca plants and other plants used in the manufacturing of drugs. This killed a lot of crops that farmers needed to live, and caused major health problems in places such as Columbia. The US government said that people getting sick were lying and that Roundup was just as safe as table salt. (A statement that did not age well.)

So chemical companies make money off arming the USA military. The American lawn care industry, and the agricultural system, therefore originates in more than one way from the United States's war-mongering.

The other major way is described in this article (which I highly recommend), which describes how after WW2, chemical plants used for manufacturing explosives were changed into fertilizer producing plants, but chemical companies couldn't market all that fertilizer to farmers, so they invented the lawn care industry. No exaggeration, that's literally what happened.

This really changes my perspective on all the writings about fixing the agricultural system. The resources are biased towards the use of chemicals in agriculture because the companies are so powerful as to make outreach and research for non-chemical methods of agriculture really hard to fund. All the funding is in finding new ways to spray chemicals or spraying slightly different chemicals, because that's what you can actually get ahold of money to look into. It is like the research has to negotiate a truce with the chemical companies, suggesting only solutions that won't cause lower profits.

Meanwhile my respect for Amaranth is skyrocketing.

Who would win: The USA military-industrial complex or one leafy boi

#military industrial complex #plants #agriculture #environment

[mysharona1987]

Kids carrying an (emptied) US made bomb: Horrible and inexcusable!

Those same kids getting killed and maimed by those same US made bombs? Totally cool!

Weird ass logic.

#free palestine #free gaza #israel #anti zionisim #democrats #republicans #politics #military #us military #military industrial complex #woc #books #war crimes

[sayruq]

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[politijohn]

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#politics #us politics #government #defund the military #military industrial complex #the left #end all wars #imperialism #news #current events #twitter post

[lilithism1848]

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[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

#palestine #human rights #free palestine #israel #Gaza #colonialism #anti colonialism #colonial violence #colonization #settler colonialism #military industrial complex #indigenous rights #land back

[hussyknee]

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Another thread by Senator Ben Ray Luján here.

A book on the subject (haven't read it myself):

One of the sources in another one of Alisa's furiously impassioned twitter threads have been debunked, so I didn't include that. But she claims that her own family was caught in the fallout zone when her mother was a baby, which eventually led to her and large numbers of her community developing cancer. It's human for that kind of grief to be caught up in inaccuracies. People are already being ghastly and racist to Hispanos and Indigenous people criticizing the hype for the movie. They're not attacking Oppenheimer for being Jewish, they're criticising the erasure of the human cost of these bombs and the continued valorisation of the U.S military's actions in World War II as some kind of moral saviourism.

While Oppenheimer himself believed that the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were morally justified (they had planned to drop them on Germany except they surrendered before they could), he also felt had blood on his hands and regretted his role as the "Father of the Atomic Bomb". He spent the rest of his career vehemently opposing further development of thermonuclear weapons and the hydrogen bomb accurately predicting the concept of mutually assured destruction. This eventually made him a victim of Senator McCarthy's Red Scare and his clearance was revoked. I haven't seen the movie (Christopher Nolan is the kind of casual white racist I avoid on principle) but people who have seen it say that it doesn't glorify nuclear weapons and depicts the man himself with the complex moral nuance that seems to be accurately reflective of his real life.

The backlash to Indigenous and Hispanos people's criticisms and to people pointing out that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were genocides is also frustrating because...both world wars were a clash of genocidal empires. The reason they were world wars is because the countries colonized by Japan, China, the European powers and the US were all dragged into it, whether they wanted to or not. Jews were one of the many colonized peoples that suffered in that time, who were left to die by everyone until they could be used to frame the Allied powers as moral saviours, establishing a revisionist nostalgia for heroism that powers the US military industrial complex to this day.

As early as May 1942, and again in June, the BBC reported the mass murder of Polish Jews by the Nazis. Although both US President, Franklin Roosevelt, and British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, warned the Germans that they would be held to account after the war, privately they agreed to prioritise and to turn their attention and efforts to winning the war. Therefore, all pleas to the Allies to destroy the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau were ignored. The Allies argued that not only would such an operation shift the focus away from winning the war, but it could provoke even worse treatment of the Jews. In June 1944 the Americans had aerial photographs of the Auschwitz complex. The Allies bombed a nearby factory in August, but the gas chambers, crematoria and train tracks used to transport Jewish civilians to their deaths were not targeted.

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Uncritical consumption of World War II media is the reinforcement of imperialist propaganda, more so when one group of colonized people is used to silence other colonized peoples. Pitting white Jewry against BIPOC is to do the work of white supremacy for imperialist colonizers, and victimizes Jews of colour twice over.

Edit: friends, there's been some doubt cast on the veracity of Alisa's claims. The human cost to the Hispanos population caught downwind of the nuclear tests is very real, as was land seizure without adequate compensation. However, there's no record I can yet find about Los Alamos killing livestock and Hispanos being forced to work for Los Alamos without PPE. There is a separate issue about human testing in the development of said PPE that's not covered here. I'm turning off reblogs until I can find out more. Meanwhile, here's another more legitimate article you can boost instead:

#Youtube #colonialism #colonization #genocide #oppenheimer #nuclear war #nuclear testing #indigenous rights #racism #new mexico #american imperialism #world war ii #hispanos #tw: animal cruelty #loyda martinez #white supremacy #military industrial complex #generational trauma #worker exploitation #colonial trauma #hiroshima #nagasaki #war propaganda #knee of huss #twitter

[idiot-trashpanda]

just saw The Creator and i am having thoughts

a lot of reviews seem to focus on the sci-fi aspects, the fact that there's a war against A.I. and saying "this is a glimpse of what our world could be" without any hint of understand that this is what the world already is

sure, there's no war against A.I. but i think the more important part of the film is the depiction of U.S. imperialism and the wanton destruction and murder the U.S. military leaves everywhere it goes. in there muerderous quest to destroy all A.I. in revenge for something that was actually a human error, they murder thousands of innocent humans, adults and children alike. U.S. imperialism doesn't care how many it leaves dead, as long it achieves its objective.

to many people around the world watching this movie, where American missiles are launched at distant targets with no regard for who they kill, this film will be saddly familiar. over here in the imperial core, we have no idea what it feels like to be helpless in the face of such cruel destruction, but hundreds of millions of people around the world do.

so, like all good sci-fi, this wasn't a look at what the world could be if we let A.I. keep developing, but a look at how the world already is because we let the U.S. military industrial complex run amok

#the creator #the creator movie #the creator 2023 #imperialism #military industrial complex