NNOMY News January 18, 2019


 

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Phebe Novakovic Defense contractor General Dynamics CEO: Click on photo for source
 


One of the largest military contractors in the world. Provides weapons and munitions used by the Israeli air force against Palestinian civilians. Involved in monitoring the US-Mexico border and surveilling immigrant communities inside the United States.


General Dynamics is a multinational defense and aerospace conglomerate based in Virginia. In 2018, the company was listed as the world’s sixth largest arms-producing company by the Stockholm International Peace and Research Institute (SIPRI) and Defense News. General Dynamics brought in $31 billion in revenue in 2017. Of this total revenue, 61 percent came from the U.S. government, including $676 million in Foreign Military Sales. The company’s primary customer is the U.S. Department of Defense. In 2018, General Dynamics was the largest government contractor in the United States.

General Dynamics is made up of four business groups: Aerospace, Combat Systems, Marine Systems, and Information Systems and Technology. Combat Systems produces wheeled armored vehicles, battle tanks, tracked combat vehicles, weapons systems, armament and munitions, and support services. Information Systems and Technology provides the U.S. army with computing and communications equipment and supplies the U.S. Navy with fire control system modification for ballistic-missile submarines. Marine Systems builds ships, including nuclear-powered submarines, for the U.S. Navy.

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A Call for National Mobilization to Oppose NATO, War, and Racism

April 4, 2019, will mark the 51st anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the internationally revered leader in struggles against racism, poverty and war.

And yet, in a grotesque desecration of Rev. King’s lifelong dedication to peace, this is the date that the military leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have chosen to celebrate NATO’s 70th anniversary by holding its annual summit meeting in Washington, D.C. This is a deliberate insult to Rev. King and a clear message that Black lives and the lives of non-European humanity, and indeed the lives of the vast majority, really do not matter.

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The Army, in Need of Recruits, Turns Focus to Liberal-Leaning Cities


SEATTLE — Army recruiters in Seattle can earn a Friday off for each new soldier they enlist. But in a city with a thriving tech industry and a long history of antiwar protests, the recruiters haven’t gotten many long weekends.

“It’s no secret we’re a little behind,” Sgt. First Class Jeremiah Vargas, who heads the city’s recruiting station, told four recruiters at a morning pep talk in early December. With a week left to go in the 30-day reporting period, he wrote the station’s goal — eight recruits — on a white board, and then the current tally: two.

“What do we need to make mission?” he asked.

One recruiter responded with a shrug, “A miracle.”

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Killed the Messenger: The Killing Game


Gary Webb, 2004 - It’s Tuesday, practice night for the LANatomas Counter-Strike clan. Five young men wearing headphones are sitting side by side before a bank of computer monitors, fingers flickering over keyboards, mouses clicking, yelling out warnings to each other. The room, a narrow computer-gaming center in a suburban strip mall, is pleasantly dim, lit with black light and neon. Blue Oyster Cult thrums through the sound system, but not loudly.

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Youth camps shape new generations with patriotism, pushups and prayer


Will Carless - In rural central Florida, a group of children sit on a jetty, their reflections dappled in water the color of iced tea. It is quiet. Stifling, peaceful. The children pray over the breakfast they’re about to eat and ask for blessings for those whose hands prepared it. And they ask for safety during their upcoming weapons training, during which they will learn how to disarm a knife-wielding attacker, load a rifle and properly handle a handgun.

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NewsGuard Launches War on Alternative Media

Whitney Webb - NewsGuard separates sites it deems worthy and sites it considers unreliable by using a color-coded rating — green, yellow, or red — and more detailed “nutrition labels” regarding a site’s credibility or lack thereof. Rankings are created by NewsGuard’s team of “trained analysts.” The color-coding system may remind some readers of the color-coded terror threat-level warning system that was created after 9/11, making it worth noting that Tom Ridge, the former secretary of Homeland Security who oversaw the implementation of that system under George W. Bush, is on NewsGuard’s advisory board.

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MSM Celebrates Women in the War Machine

Against that backdrop, the female CEOs have had a chance to shine. Since Hewson took over Lockheed Martin in 2013, for example, the stock has returned 338%. Overall, since President Trump’s election, aerospace and defense stocks have outperformed the market by 29 percentage points. In separate interviews, Hewson, Caret, and Dugle discussed leadership when the stakes are the highest. (Warden and Novakovic declined to participate.) What follows is in their words, edited for length and clarity.

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