Arming the Planet: the USA as the World's Leading Weapons Dealer - CounterPunch.org

Arming the Planet: the USA as the World's Leading Weapons Dealer - CounterPunch.org: For the past several decades, the United States has been the world’s leading producer of major weapons systems and the leader in global arms sales.  More of these sales have taken place in the globe’s most volatile region, the Middle East, than in any other region of the world.  The so-called peace deals between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrein, which were brokered by the United States, were business deals designed to expand U.S. arms sales in the Persian Gulf.  More