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DESCRIPTION:America spends a trillion dollars a year on its military. This 
 extraordinary spending not only detracts from our ability to address 
 pressing social problems but compels us into foreign wars to justify our 
 vast arsenal. Sold to us in the name of “security,” our military 
 industrial complex actually makes us far less safe.\n\nTop policy experts 
 William D. Hartung and Ben Freeman will join the War Industry Resisters 
 Network to discuss their new book The Trillion Dollar War Machine, which 
 follows the profits of militarism from traditional Pentagon contractors, 
 who receive more than half of the Pentagon’s budget, to the upstart 
 high-tech firms that shamelessly promote unproven and destabilizing 
 technologies. They unmask the enablers of the war machine—politicians, 
 lobbyists, the media, Hollywood, think tanks, and so many more—whose work 
 enriches a wealthy elite at the expense of everybody else, spreading 
 conflict around the world and embroiling America in endless wars. A damning 
 tour de force, The Trillion Dollar War Machine shows who is pulling the 
 strings and pushing for war, and offers a blueprint for how we can shut 
 down the war machine and restore American security and prosperity.  
 \n\nPresenters\n\nWilliam D. Hartung focuses on the arms industry and US 
 military budget. He was previously the director of the Arms and Security 
 Program at the Center for International Policy and the co-director of the 
 Center’s Sustainable Defense Task Force. Bill is the co-author, with Ben 
 Freeman, of the recently released The Trillion Dollar War Machine: How 
 Runaway Military Spending Drives America into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us 
 at Home. He is also the author of Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the 
 Making of the Military-Industrial Complex (Nation Books, 2011) and the 
 co-editor, with Miriam Pemberton, of Lessons from Iraq: Avoiding the Next 
 War (Paradigm Press, 2008). And Weapons for All (HarperCollins, 1995) is a 
 critique of US arms sales policies from the Nixon through Clinton 
 administrations.\n\nBen Freeman is director of the Democratizing Foreign 
 Policy program at the Quincy Institute. Ben is the co-author, with William 
 Hartung, of the recently released The Trillion Dollar War Machine: How 
 Runaway Military Spending Drives America into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us 
 at Home. He investigates money in politics, defense spending, and foreign 
 influence in America. He is the author of The Foreign Policy Auction, which 
 was the first book to systematically analyze the foreign influence industry 
 in the United States. Before joining the Quincy Institute, Ben founded the 
 Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative at the Center for International 
 Policy, served as Deputy Director of the National Security program at Third 
 Way, and was a National Security Fellow at the Project On Government 
 Oversight. At the latter, he spear-headed creation of the “Foreign 
 Influence Database,” a repository of propaganda distributed by foreign 
 agents that was previously unavailable online.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/12/04/18881997.php
SUMMARY:Webinar: The Trillion Dollar War Machine
LOCATION:Zoom\nhttps://secure.everyaction.com/7cR7gtXz40m9mhQAleZXlA2
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/12/04/18881997.php
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