The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awards Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR), subsidiary of Halliburton, a $7 billion no-bid contract for Iraqi oil infrastructure restoration, demonstrating systematic corporate-state fusion beyond WHIG’s media coordination template. Internal Pentagon emails reveal …
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The Senate Armed Services Committee confirms Charles Erwin “Engine Charlie” Wilson as Secretary of Defense by a vote of 77 to 6, despite controversy over his massive General Motors stockholdings valued at more than $2.5 million (approximately $24 million in 2018 dollars). Wilson had …
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James Vincent Forrestal, a successful Wall Street financier who ran the investment bank Dillon, Read & Co., becomes the first United States Secretary of Defense when the National Military Establishment is formally established. Forrestal’s appointment represents the archetypal revolving …
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