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Baldacci, David. Davis, Michael W. R. Feinstein, Andrew Hagedorn, Ann. Halper, Jeff Holden, PaulHolden, Paul
Summary: Although there is often opposition to individual wars, many people continue to believe that the arms industry is necessary in some form: to safeguard our security, provide jobs, or stimulate the economy. For these reasons, not only conservatives, but many progressives and liberals, are able to rationalize supporting it. But is the arms industry truly as essential as we’ve been led to believe? ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zed Books Ltd 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 382.456 HOLFeinstein, Andrew
Summary: Here is the harrowing behind-the-scenes tale of the global arms trade, revealing the deadly collusion among senior politicians, weapons manufacturers, felonious arms dealers, and the military that compromises our security and undermines our democracy. Pulling back the curtain on this secretive world, Feinstein reveals the corruption and the cover-ups.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 382.456 FEIBaldacci, David.
Summary: The world's largest defense contractor manipulates international conflicts-- even a world war, if necessary-- to keep his business in the black.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BalDavis, Michael W. R.
Summary: The label "Arsenal of Democracy" was coined by Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt in a fireside chat radio broadcast on December 29, 1940, nearly a year before the United States formally entered the war. Here is the pictorial story of one Detroiter's unique leadership in the miraculous speed Detroit's mass-production capacity was shifted to output of tanks, trucks, guns, and airplanes to support...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 DAVBaldacci, David.
Summary: The world's largest defense contractor manipulates international conflicts-- even a world war, if necessary-- to keep his business in the black.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BaldaHagedorn, Ann.
Summary: "The story behind the ultimate American privatization, which has taken place gradually and almost invisibly: how we privatized our national security"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 HAGHalper, Jeff
Summary: "Governments today are waging a 'war against the people' - whether 'securitization' against asylum seekers in Fortress Europe, 'counterinsurgency' in Afghanistan, or the subliminal war of policing and surveillance arising everywhere. Israel's contribution to this is key: exporting the high-tech weaponry, security systems and methods of pacification perfected on the Palestinians in the Occupied...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PlutoPress 2015