War Profiteering Talk by Jeffrey St. Clair

Jeffery St. Clair, co-editor of CounterPunch and author of Grand Theft Pentagon: Takes of Corruption and Profiteering in the War on Terror, will be in Madison as part of a national book tour.

 

Jeffery St. Clair is an award-winning investigative journalist, co-editor of political newsletter CounterPunch and author on nine books, including Whiteout: the CIA, Drugs and the Press, Been Brown So Long It Looked Like Green to Me: the Politics of Nature and Imperial Crusades: Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia.

 

From the F-22 fighter jet and B-2 bomber to the Stryker tank and Star Wars, Grand Theft Pentagon chronicles how the Pentagon shells out billions to politically wired arms contractors for weapons that don't work for use against an enemy that no longer exists. St. Clair shows how many of the biggest arms contracts were literally inside jobs, negotiated by Pentagon generals who later went to work for the very same corporations that were awarded the contracts.

 

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