Article: Complex interests

Article: Canada's military-industrial complex.(Opinion)
The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario);  February 26, 2008 ;     587 words ......Associations, a high-powered military group that would warm the...Canadian taxpayer dollars toward military spending, and to further Canada's transformation...unwarranted influence of a military-industrial complex risked endangering the democratic...thrilled Canada's own mini ...

Article: MILITARY SPENDING WILL BANKRUPT US
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  November 6, 1992 ;     143 words ......Bergen County, NJ) 11-06-1992 MILITARY SPENDING WILL BANKRUPT US Date: 11-06-1992...the expansion of our wasteful "military-industrial complex." At the same time, the Soviet...how long it will be before our military-industrial complex bankrupts America. RAYMOND H...

Article: Why a momentous election won't change the military-industrial complex 'The new guy is still going to have to live in an administration...'.(Ideas)
The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario);  November 9, 2008 ;     700+ words ......bring to a close to an era of out-of-control military spending and drawn-out foreign wars, Eugene Jarecki...about battle stations in outer space. The military has become a way of life. It's a self-feeding...tensions in the national character (between military spending and isolationism). But ...

Article: Face military spending realities
Chicago Sun-Times;  December 15, 1988 ;     489 words ......to Mikhail Gorbachev's proposal for massive military cuts, some analysts have said that the Soviets are finally facing these realities: (1) Military spending hurts their nation's economy; (2) increased military spending leads to increased risk of nuclear war; (3) their ...

Article: FINANCE-ARMS: MILITARY SPENDING PLUNGED IN LAST DECADE, SAYS IMF
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  June 3, 1996 ;     596 words ......WASHINGTON, June 3 (IPS) -- Global military spending fell sharply between 1985 and 1995...the "IMF Survey." If the ratio of military spending to GDP had continued at 1985 levels...percent of GDP to just 3.0 percent. Military spending in these countries in 1995 were...

Article: Military spending: Boon or bane to the economy?
Dollars & Sense;  July 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Eds. Fewer Jobs, Slower Growth: Military Spending Drains the Economy BY DAVID GOLD...has experienced another cycle in military spending, the third since World War If. The...the defense burden (the share of military spending in GDP) has fallen. In the late 1950s...

Article: Arguments through the ages; Dwight Eisenhower: Beware the `military-industrial complex'.(NEWS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  January 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ......farewell address in which he warned of the dangers of a military-industrial complex. The term was the creation of presidential speechwriter...went on to be president of the University of Minnesota. Military spending by 1960 had grown to more than half the federal budget...

Article: Cold War Lives On in Clinton Military Spending Plan, Says CDI
U.S. Newswire;  June 1, 1994 ;     447 words ......CDI) in its latest report, "1995 Military Spending: The Real Story." A private Washington-bas...Clinton Plan. The report finds that military spending has been cut only in comparison with...domestic program, continued excess military spending will jeopardize President Clinton...

Article: China's military spending to rise 12.6 percent this year
AP Worldstream;  March 4, 2005 ;     245 words ......BEIJING China will increase its military spending by 12.6 percent this year to 247...announced double-digit increases in military spending nearly every year for more than a...world's biggest fighting force. Total military spending is believed to be as much as several...

Article: REP. FRANK HOSTS FORUM ON MILITARY SPENDING
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 25, 2009 ;     489 words ......Barney Frank today convened a forum on military spending to discuss ways to restrain excessive military spending while maintaining a strong defense. Over the past eight years, overall military spending has more than doubled to over $700...

Article: China says military spending to rise 12.6 percent this year
AP Worldstream;  March 4, 2005 ;     513 words ......announced a 12.6 percent increase in military spending, but tried to calm fears that an...attack on rival Taiwan. The rise in military spending adds to a series of double-digit...announced double-digit increases in military spending nearly every year for more than a...

Article: TOO MUCH OF OUR MONEY GOES TO MILITARY SPENDING.(Opinion)(Letter to the editor)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  April 23, 2008 ;     139 words ......Resisters League, it is a whopping 54 percent. Current military spending is estimated at 36 percent while past military spending is estimated at 18 percent. Past military spending includes veterans' benefits and 80 percent of the interest...

Article: Global military spending hits $1.46 trillion.(FRONT)
The Record (Kitchener, Ontario);  June 9, 2009 ;     310 words ......research group said yesterday. Global military spending was four per cent higher than in...demand if governments cut future military spending in response to rising budget deficits...during the Bush administration. U.S. military spending increased nearly 10 per cent in 2008...

Article: Debatable, but not debated: military spending.(U.S. 1997 defense budget)
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists;  July 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ...This year's fight over the level of military spending was lost before it began. President...request continued the downward trend in military spending, but Defense Secretary William Perry...the peak year of Ronald Realan's military spending spree--which also happens to be the...