Washington: Colony to the World
In its relationships with some countries, the United States is acquiring a status that is less imperial than neo-colonial
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Arms and the Man Who Sells Them
In the old days, the “merchants of death ” sold arms for profit, and let the bullets fall where they might. Today, the U.S. government sells them for policy reasons (and profit), and argues Senator McCarthy (Democrat, Minnesota), the results are no less disastrous. A member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and one of the earliest critics of the Pentagon’s controversial arms sales program, McCarthy is the author of the forthcoming THE LIMITS OF POWER (Holt, Rinehart and Winston), from which this article is adapted.