Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Corporatism, Trump, Syria, and Raytheon Corp.


As reported on the Democracy Now news hour yesterday (you won't find this on the Corporate News Media, such as NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, etc.)---
1.  The missiles used in the unconstitutional attack on Syria that was ordered by Trump have a price tag of over $1 million each.
2.  After the attack, Raytheon (the maker of those missiles) had a big increase in their stock on Wall Street.  Their total stock value jumped up by about $1 billion.
3.  Trump has investments in Raytheon, so he benefitted directly.
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Perhaps it was all an innocent coincidence.  I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions.  Be well.

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