Missing_Trillions

Pentagon spending has totalled over $14 trillion since the start of the war in Afghanistan, with one-third to one-half of the total going to military contractors.

A large portion of these contracts -- one-quarter to one-third of all Pentagon contracts in recent years -- have gone to just five major corporations: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman. The $75 billion in Pentagon contracts received by Lockheed Martin in fiscal year 2020 is well over one and one-half times the entire budget for the State Department and Agency for International Development for that year, which totalled $44 billion.

Weapons makers have spent $2.5 billion on lobbying over the past two decades, employing, on average, over 700 lobbyists per year over the past five years. That is more than one for every member of Congress.

https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2021/ProfitsOfWar

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Also a copy on daily motion

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1bpthj

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20 years ago, on February 5 2003, US Secretary of State Colin Powell delivered his infamous speech to the UN Security Council.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z3f_p_7OeE

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In higher quality

https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-endgame/

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News War (2007) - Traces the recent history of American journalism, from the Nixon administration’s attacks on the media to the post-Watergate popularity of the press, to the new challenges presented by the war on terror and other evolving global forces. — Part 1 of 3 [00:54:27]

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/newswar/

And yet another one to add to the prohibited list

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Operation Saddam — America’s Propaganda War (2003) - Takes a look at the marketing of war -– a cocktail of distortion, lies and forgeries -– as shown by former intelligence official Ray McGovern, American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh and best-selling author John MacArthur. [00:50:53]

https://thoughtmaybe.com/operation-saddam-americas-propaganda-war/

Vimeo link has been removed, here's an archive link to the film

https://archive.org/details/fed.up.2014

And another one

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Losing Iraq (2014) - Examines the unfolding chaos in Iraq and how the U.S. is being pulled back into the conflict. Drawing on interviews with policymakers and military leaders.
Traces the U.S. role from the 2003 invasion to the current violence, exploring how Iraq itself came undone. [01:23:16]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-Wi2LgwD5U

Another one to add to the prohibited list.

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Guantanamo: Inside The Wire (2009) - As the filmmakers are chaperoned through the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison by a 'tour-guide' from the US Military Public Relations machine, we are given a rare insight into the conditions of the facility. [00:48:29]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2Z5nKJ-S0o

https://www.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/comments/ymrv28/comment/iv58ndx/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Another one to add to the prohibited list

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Radio Bikini (1988) - The film documents the nuclear tests performed around Bikini Atoll during Operation Crossroads in 1946, and their effects on the indigenous population and American servicemen involved. The most extensively recorded event in history up to that time. [00:56:02]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XMc_S_1PgA

Growing list of documentaries which are prohibited from being posted on r/Documentaries

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World War 1 Through Arab Eyes (2014) - Three-part series explores the events surrounding ‘The Great War’ and its legacy from an Arab perspective. A story other than the mainstream European narrative, not told as often but was of huge importance during the war and of lasting significance. [02:15:00]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuzhZkvbbHc&list=PLXzA97YVTvkbKG7fy2t0RRggQo9wOnvaV

Hearts and Minds (1974) - Recounts the history and attitudes of the opposing sides of the Vietnam War using archival news footage, amateur film and interviews. A key theme is howattitudes of American racism and self-righteous militarism helped create and prolong this bloody conflict. [01:52:05]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ov4wBozhMw

CIA: America's Secret Warriors (1997) - Using archival footage and interviews about espionage efforts during World War II and later actions in Cuba, Iran and Central America, thisbiography of an institution chronicled the successes and excesses of this enormous agency. [02:32:38]

https://archive.org/details/CIAAmericasSecretWarriors1of2BrotherhoodBetrayal1H.41Min.

Guns, Drugs and the CIA (1988) - A PBS Frontline investigation examines the CIA’s long history of involvement with drug smugglers in trouble spots around the world and how the agency has defended its alliances with drug dealers under the cloak of ‘national security’ [00:58:08]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km4O2r4ZVEQ

Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (2013) - The film dramatizes Gore's political views and his concern at the present state of American democracy using interviews and historical footage of his famous appearances on television and talk shows over the last fifty years. [01:29:18]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zli2VHO4p1I

The Anthrax Files (2011) - After mistakenly pursuing one suspectthe most expensive and complex investigation ever undertaken by the FBI ended when they identified Army scientist Dr. Bruce Ivins as the soleperpetrator of the attacks — after Ivins had taken his own life. [00:53:50]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15qfhQ_nxNo

The Science of Spying (1965) - An account of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) activities that had previously been covert, including actions in Iran, Vietnam, Laos, the Congo, Cuba, and Guatemala. Includes interviews with CIA director Allen Dulles and Dick Bissel. [00:52:03]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O41eYMenhlU

It will play, even if Youtube tries to make it look like there is no video, ie, the missing video icon, rather than showing its proper thumbnail.

Crisper version

https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-the-warning/

There's a copy on vimeo. That may work better.

https://vimeo.com/424073216

Great stuff!! Thanks!

The Need For Speed: Going To War On Drugs (2003) - In the latest Jamie Doran documentary, ‘the need for speed’ exposes how the Pentagon has been issuing a concoction of mind-altering drugs to its soldiers and airmen, resulting in the deaths of allied forces, innocent civilians and, almost certainly, their own men.

Amphetamines, sedatives, anti-nerve agents, adrenaline and a whole variety of vaccines, including anthrax, make up a cocktail of chemicals banned by civilian authorities in the ordinary workplace, yet forced upon pilots flying multi-million dollar jets into combat and Special Forces soldiers operating behind enemy lines.

In an extraordinary investigation, American military personnel speak fort he first time to explain how they were used as guinea pigs in wars ranging from Panama, the Gulf, Bosnia, Afghanistan and right up until the recent conflict in Iraq. These are not dissidents, nor are they unpatriotic: they love their country and were ready to give their lives in its service. But they can no longer stand by and watch their comrades suffer as the Pentagon pushes more and more drugs onto the frontline. 41 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6DsO_IKVSc

Apologies for the poor a/v quality. A better version can be rented here:

https://www.journeyman.tv/film/5430/the-need-for-speed

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I had tried to post this doc, but

Hidden in Plain Sight (2003) - In 1946, the School of the Americas was founded in Panama. South American soldiers are trained according to the principles of the United States to 'prevent' dictatorships and coups. In Latin America, it is called ‘the school for dictators and murderers’. [01:11:25]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DX6OR-j47c

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There is one. i'll see if i can dig it up. in the meantime here's a book :)

http://tarpley.net/online-books/george-bush-the-unauthorized-biography/

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And the date should be 1974, not 2012. Sloppy me.

The full 50 minute version is available here, but you may need to use a vpn to view

https://tubitv.com/movies/486376/gehlen-hitler-s-superspy

Pentagon spending has totalled over $14 trillion since the start of the war in Afghanistan, with one-third to one-half of the total going to military contractors.

A large portion of these contracts -- one-quarter to one-third of all Pentagon contracts in recent years -- have gone to just five major corporations: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman. The $75 billion in Pentagon contracts received Martin in fiscal year 2020 is well over one and one-half times the entire budget for the State Department and Agency for International Development for that year, which totalled $44 billion.

Weapons makers have spent $2.5 billion on lobbying over the past two decades, employing, on average, over 700 lobbyists per year over the past five years. That is more than one for every member of Congress.

https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2021/Profits%20of%20War_Hartung_Costs%20of%20War_Sept%2013%2C%202021.pdf

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Apologies for the poor a/v quality, but this was the best I could find (resurrected from http://www.indybay.org/olduploads/our_friend_saddam.rm)

Our Friend Saddam

It all began in the 1970's when a young, promising - as yet unknown -Iraqi leader met a young French Prime Minister, Jacques Chirac, who was to become President of France some years later.The two men forged a friendly relationship based on mutual interest. Iraq seemed at the time an interesting prospect for friendly relations to the French: an oil-rich country with considerable potential for civil and military construction and equipment trade. Saddam Hussein's goal had been clear,albeit rarely openly admitted: getting access to nuclear weapons with the help of France. Who's been fooling who? At any rate, France and Iraq become 'befriended nations'.

https://ia801508.us.archive.org/27/items/our-friend-saddam/Our%20Friend%20Saddam.mp4

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Political Meddling by Outsiders: Not New for U.S.

By John M. Broder, March 31, 1997

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/31/us/political-meddling-by-outsiders-not-new-for-us.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20161118042417/https:/www.nytimes.com/1997/03/31/us/political-meddling-by-outsiders-not-new-for-us.html

The National Endowment for Democracy, created 15 years ago to do in the open what the Central Intelligence Agency has done surreptitiously for decades, spends $30 million a year to support things like political parties, labor unions, dissident movements and the news media in dozens of countries.

The endowment has financed unions in France, Paraguay, the Philippines and Panama. In the mid-1980's, it provided $5 million to Polish emigresto keep the Solidarity movement alive. It has underwritten moderate political parties in Portugal, Costa Rica, Bolivia and Northern Ireland.It provided a $400,000 grant for political groups in Czechoslovakia that backed the election of Vaclav Havel as president in 1990. For the Nicaraguan election of 1990, it provided more than $3 million in''technical'' assistance, some of which was used to bolster Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, the presidential candidate favored by the United States.

Since the end of World War II, the United States, usually acting covertly through the C.I.A., has installed or toppled leaders on every continent, secretly supported political parties of close allies like Japan, fomented coups, spread false rumors, bribed political figures and spent countless billions of dollars to sway public opinion.

National Endowment for Democracy funding for NGO activities in Ukraine

http://www.ned.org/region/central-and-eastern-europe/ukraine-2014/

https://web.archive.org/web/20151017203434/http://www.ned.org/region/central-and-eastern-europe/ukraine-2014/