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Saturday, November 14, 2020

Biden's Transition Team

 One Third of Biden's Pentagon Transition Team Hails From Organizations Financed by the Weapons Industry. The president-elect is drawing from hawkish think tanks funded by arms companies.


By: Sarah Lazare   11/11/2020

Link: https://inthesetimes.com/article/joe-biden-department-of-defense-pentagon-transition-team-weapons-industry-military

In July 2019, while cam­paign­ing for the Demo­c­ra­t­ic nom­i­na­tion for pres­i­dent, Joe Biden declared in a for­eign pol­i­cy speech, ​“It’s past time to end the For­ev­er Wars, which have cost us untold blood and trea­sure.” But the pres­i­dent-elect — who as vice pres­i­dent over­saw wars in Yemen, Libya, Afghanistan and more — is already embrac­ing per­son­nel with strong ties to the mil­i­tary appa­ra­tus dri­ving this end­less combat.