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Todd Miller | The Border Fetish: The US Frontier as a Zone of Profit and Sacrifice

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26 April 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News NO ONE IS DONATING AND WE'RE GETTING INTO TROUBLE - The last two days we have seen barely a trickle of donations, almost all very small. Predictably a financial storm is gathering. We do what we can to keep everyone up to date, but our readers must take an active role as well. We need some support and right now we are not getting it. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! EXCERPTS:    "....In 2011, for example, CBP  granted  the former Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root (a company known for its  profiteering  in Iraq) a three-year, $24.4 million   contract for border wall maintenance. And you can multiply that so many times over since, year after year, bigger and bigger budgets have gone into border and immigration enforcement (and so into the pockets of such corporations) with little or no discussion. In 2018, the combined ...

Week of March 5, 2018

Intrepid Report Newsletter We cannot keep publishing without your help. We have no paywalls or ads. Nor do we receive corporate or foundation funding. All we have is you to keep us publishing.  We  rely  on you to help us  pay our monthly expenses. So please Donate   Monday For all practical purposes, the American system of government is failing How and why By Dr. Rodrigue Tremblay On January 17, 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969), 34th President of the United States, (1953–1961), and a five-star general, gave a Farewell address that has echoed through the years. He not only warned his fellow citizens about the danger of a “military-industrial complex,” which could “endanger our liberties or democratic processes,” but he also issued a wish in saying that “we want democracy to survive for all generations to come.” Chabad inside the White House: A clear and present national security danger By Wayne Madsen Multiple re...

The military industrial complex strikes again: War spending will bankrupt America

Intrepid Report Newsletter We cannot keep publishing without your help. We have no paywalls or ads. Nor do we receive corporate or foundation funding. All we have is you to keep us publishing.  We  rely on you to help us  pay our monthly expenses. So please Donate  M onday NYT disinformation on Venezuela’s presidential election By Stephen Lendman It’s scheduled for April 22, Maduro is favored to be reelected for another six-year term. Trump’s military parade in DC could cost millions in damage and disruption By Wayne Madsen Donald Trump’s vainglorious desire for a military parade along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC, could result in millions of dollars in damage to streets, Washington Metro, and other key elements of the nation’s capital’s infrastructure. Trump recently tasked the Department of Defense to come up with a plan for a military parade that features armored vehicles, aircraft flying in formation, and marching military...