While U.S. manufacturing exports dry up, one particular group of U.S. exporters are still raking in money: the arms dealers. Via Trade and Taxes: It turns out that in 2007 the US had the lowest share of global manufacturing output on record. For the first time since the UN began keeping these statistics in 1970, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Lockheed Martin’
The Business of Burning Human Beings
Posted: March 17, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: arms dealers, Christianity, Iraq, Irresistible Revolution, Jesus, Jesus for President, Lockheed Martin, nonviolence, Shane Claiborne, war profiteering
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The False Choice between the Old and the New, Part II
Posted: January 5, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Ahmadinejad, Arthur Waskow, Blackwater, Boeing, Christian nonviolence, Christianity, defense contractors, Jesus, Lockheed Martin, nonviolence, shomer shalom
As I said in my previous post on this topic, nonviolent and violentist Christians often mistreat the Hebrew scriptures. Violentist Christians assert that violence in the “Old” Testament tradition negates the possibility of nonviolence as a faithful interpretation of scripture. Nonviolent Christians concede the underlying assumption–that the only faithful interpretation of the Hebrew scriptures is [...]
Merchants of Death Watch the Cash Roll In
Posted: September 14, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: arms trade, Boeing, Bush, Human Smoke, Jesus, Lockheed Martin, nonviolence
War is big business, people. According to this morning’s The New York Times: From tanks, helicopters and fighter jets to missiles, remotely piloted aircraft and even warships, the Department of Defense has agreed so far this fiscal year to sell or transfer more than $32 billion in weapons and other military equipment to foreign governments, [...]
Weaponized Xbox Controllers, The Myth of Redemptive Violence and the Militarization of Play
Posted: September 5, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Army, Close Combat, Fleet Week, Lockheed Martin, Nintendo, Pentagon, Raytheon, video games, Wii, World of Warcraft, Xbox
One of the deepest challenges that comes with the Christian faith is the constant struggle to reject false dilemmas, the most pervasive of which is the false dilemma of “fight or flight.” We learn to see conflicts in terms of this false choice from an early age, and we learn that “fight” is the “honorable” [...]
