The War Powers Act and The Making Money on War
KPFA - Letters and Politics
English - January 07, 2020 10:00 - 5 minutes - 6.38 MB - ★★★★★ - 232 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Today, a conversation with Louis Fisher on the 1973 War Powers Act, designed to limit the U.S. president’s ability to initiate or escalate military actions abroad. Louis Fisher is a scholar at The Constitution Project.
Then, Mitch Jeserich talks to arms specialist William Hartung about the economics and who makes money during a war. He is the director of the Arms and Security Project at Center for International Policy and author Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex.
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