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Article — From the June 2004 issue
How privatizing the U.S. military subverts public oversight
Article — From the November 1993 issue
Selling Congress planes we don’t need to fight enemies we don’t have
Readings — From the February 1986 issue
Readings — From the February 1985 issue
Article — From the October 1984 issue
A new low for high-tech weaponry
Article — From the May 1973 issue
Article — From the April 1964 issue
Part II. The costly mysteries of defense spending
Article — From the March 1964 issue
Part I. Congressmen, contractors, and the “defense” pork barrel
Article — From the November 1957 issue
Article — From the May 1942 issue
The profit drive slackens, business goes soft, and then what?
Article — From the February 1942 issue
The struggle for more sub-contracting

Amount of cash CNN reporter Peter Arnett says he wore sewn into his clothes while covering the Gulf War:

Babies prefer to look at attractive people.

A woman testified that prostitutes at the “bunga bunga” parties thrown by former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi had dressed up as President Obama.
“This is the heart of the magic factory, the place where medicine is infused with the miracles of science, and I’ve come to see how it’s done.”