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Bite the Bullet War Profiteering Education and Action Network
Corporations manufacture weapons for profit. Private contractors provide the military with infrastructure and logistics support. Universities conduct military-related research. These are but a few examples of the beneficiaries of our "permanent war economy."
Today many Americans are asking how our country ended up in such a monumental mess in Iraq. The old saying still holds true: follow the money.
Corporations contribute millions of dollars to political campaigns with the hope that their investments will yield profitable returns in the form of military contracts - and they do. Lockheed, General Dynamics and other weapons-makers derive most of their income from military-related production, while Halliburton and Blackwater receive billions to support military operations around the world. Meanwhile, for Chevron, Exxon-Mobil and other corporations, war has meant record profits and an opportunity to take control of Iraqs oil as they continue to capitalize on the US's addiction that also fuels the climate crisis.
It's time to bite the bullet and stand up to the war profiteers that are undermining our democracy, bankrupting our economy, ruining our environment, and destroying thousands of lives.
Initiated by the War Resisters League, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the Fellowship of Reconciliation and other groups, Bite the Bullet: War Profiteering Education & Action Network seeks to motivate and empower a broad-based movement to educate, agitate and organize against the military industrial complex through creative, nonviolent and democratic means.
For more information, contact Joanne Sheehan, War Resisters League New England Regional Office at wrlneATpeoplepc.com