Russ McBee

Barack Obama said this yesterday: ''In a lot of these communities in big industrial states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, people have been beaten down so long. ... The jobs have been gone now for 25 years, and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration and the Bush administration, and each successive administration ...

This article provides an in-depth survey of the current state of international arms trading. A couple of choice quotes: Vast government subsidies are sought after in the pursuit of arms trading. US and European corporations receive enormous tax breaks and even lend money to other countries to purchase weapons from them. Therefore tax payers ...

France, for whatever bizarre reason, is a popular target of scorn and derision among wingnuts, except when it suits their purposes: Congressional and government delegations, together with the defense and aerospace industries, are making final preparations for the 2007 Paris Air Show next week, one of the largest trade shows in the world. ...