Global military spending is now an integral part of capitalism - The Guardian

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<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"><tr><td width="80" align="center" valign="top"><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNHM-q4ijDLvpiTtbLt_mzjMgG5lOA&cid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&url=http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/07/global-military-spending-integral-capitalism-peace-dividend"><img src="//t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS3djkmvRxu6OZ8WUpZfTLw7mNjZ20HA wXjvtFsXxWvrI-CJ6Xkk-imt8ydqGkZMy_5oSjT5-0" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80" /><br /><font size="-2">The Guardian</font></a></font></td><td valign="top" class="j"><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br /><div style="padding-top:0.8em;"><img alt="" height="1" width="1" /></div><div class="lh"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNHM-q4ijDLvpiTtbLt_mzjMgG5lOA&cid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&url=http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/07/global-military-spending-integral-capitalism-peace-dividend"><b>Global military spending is now an integral part of capitalism</b></a><br /><font size="-1"><b><font color="#6f6f6f">The Guardian</font></b></font><br /><font size="-1">After all, there is no inherent reason why <b>geo</b>-economic competition should lead to defence spending consuming trillions of dollars of value each year. Part of <b>...</b> The Reaganite-era <b>neo</b>-conservative bloc was impossible without an elevated Russian "threat".</font><br /><font size="-1" class="p"></font><br /><font class="p" size="-1"><a class="p" href="http://news.google.ie/news/more?ncl=dFbBvk7Gzc-O48M&authuser=0&ned=en_ie"><nobr><b>and more&nbsp;&raquo;</b></nobr></a></font></div></font></td></tr></table>

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