[act-ma] MONDAY 5/8: The Military-Industrial Complex Revisited: the Trump Administration and the Militarization of U.S. Foreign Policy

[Cole Harrison]

The Military-Industrial Complex Revisited: the Trump Administration and the
Militarization of U.S. Foreign Policy
May 8 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmCambridge Friends Meeting, 5 Longfellow Park$5
donation requested; no one turned away
[image: Aerial View of the Pentagon in Virginia]

[image: William Hartung]
<http://masspeaceaction.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/william_hartung_fullsize-1.jpg>William
Hartung is director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for
International Policy.  He is the author of *Prophets of War: Lockheed
Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex *(Nation Books,
2011) and the co-editor, with Miriam Pemberton, of *Lessons from Iraq:
Avoiding the Next War *(Paradigm Press, 2008).  Previous books include *And
Weapons for All *(HarperCollins, 1995), a critique of U.S. arms sales
policies from the Nixon through Clinton administrations. From July 2007
through March 2011, Mr. Hartung was the director of the Arms and Security
Initiative at the New America Foundation. Prior to that, he served as the
director of the Arms Trade Resource Center at the World Policy Institute.
He also worked as a speechwriter and policy analyst for New York State
Attorney General Robert Abrams. Bill Hartung’s articles on security issues
have appeared in the *New York Times*, the *Washington Post*, the *Los
Angeles Times*, *The Nation*, and the *World Policy Journal*. He has been a
featured expert on national security issues on CBS *60 Minutes*, *NBC
Nightly News*, *the Lehrer Newshour*, CNN, Fox News, and scores of local,
regional, and international radio outlets. He blogs for the *Huffington
Post* and *TPM Café*.

Sponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action, Friends Meeting at Cambridge, and
Veterans for Peace – Smedley Butler Brigade.  Hartung was a featured
speaker at Saturday's "Reducing the Threat of Nuclear War" conference at
MIT.
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DetailsDate:May 8Time:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Cost:$5Event Tags:Foreign policy
<http://masspeaceaction.org/tag/foreign-policy/>, Militarism
<http://masspeaceaction.org/tag/militarism/>, military-industrial complex
<http://masspeaceaction.org/tag/military-industrial-complex/>, Trump
administration <http://masspeaceaction.org/tag/trump-administration/>, William
Hartung <http://masspeaceaction.org/tag/william-hartung/>
OrganizerMassachusetts Peace Action
<http://masspeaceaction.org/organizer/massachusetts-peace-action/>
VenueCambridge Friends Meeting
<http://masspeaceaction.org/venue/cambridge-friends-meeting/>5 Longfellow
Park
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*"Not one step back"*

Cole Harrison
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