Their plan is based on something Harry S. Truman did when he was in the Senate. Six senators this week sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer calling for him to “reconstitute the World War II-era Truman Committee to investigate war profiteering and price gouging in the American military industrial complex.” The senators include Sens. Bernie […]
“Congress must put an end to this form of corporate welfare,” the senator said, arguing that one new way to do that involves reviving an old policy. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders has a novel way to stop military-industrial complex profiteers from “bilking the American people”—and it’s actually over 80 years old. In an article published Tuesday in The Atlantic, Sanders […]
One advocate said Moderna’s windfall was a “direct result of the company’s refusal to share vaccine technology with the Global South, even when it was clear that global shortages would be deadly.” The Massachusetts-based pharmaceutical giant Moderna announced Thursday that it brought in over $19 billion in revenue and $8.4 billion in profits in 2022 […]
The Blackwater founder previously pushed the Trump administration to privatize the Afghan war. Blackwater founder Erik Prince on Wednesday faced fresh accusations of being a war profiteer in response to reporting that he’s charging $6,500 per person for a seat on an evacuation flight out of Kabul. The reporting by the Wall Street Journal comes amid ongoing evacuations from Afghanistan of civilians, […]