💵 The Pentagon Inc.: Trump's War Department Takes Over Private Industry The growing number of War Department investments, acquisitions and hostile takeovers of private companies threatens to "transform" the agency from "a force in its own right within the government into something beyond it — an independent economic entity" that rivals the structure of some militias in the Middle East, a new report highlighted by the Intercept suggests. Exposing this modern-day version of Oliver North's Iran-contra-era "Enterprise," which infused the long-running Reagan-era covert operation with massive unchecked economic power, Tom Dispatch's Rebecca Gordon argues that the modern Pentagon equivalent could be far worse. In the last 22 months alone, the DoW has: 🔴 awarded a 35% stake in North American Blue Partners (NABEP), a new company granted 100-year concessions to extract 65B barrels of Venezuelan crude oil, plus exclusive rights to purchase shares of NABEP and 34% of NABEP's electricity consumption), after January's soft coup is heavily invested For rare minerals, mining, processing and 10.

💵 The Pentagon Inc.: Trump's War Department Takes Over Private Industry The growing number of War Department investments, acquisitions and hostile takeovers of private companies threatens to "transform" the agency from "a force in its own right within the government into something beyond it — an independent economic entity" that rivals the structure of some militias in the Middle East, a new report highlighted by the Intercept suggests. Exposing this modern-day version of Oliver North's Iran-contra-era "Enterprise," which infused the long-running Reagan-era covert operation with massive unchecked economic power, Tom Dispatch's Rebecca Gordon argues that the modern Pentagon equivalent could be far worse. In the last 22 months alone, the DoW has: 🔴 awarded a 35% stake in North American Blue Partners (NABEP), a new company granted 100-year concessions to extract 65B barrels of Venezuelan crude oil, plus exclusive rights to purchase shares of NABEP and 34% of NABEP's electricity consumption), after January's soft coup is heavily invested For rare minerals, mining, processing and 10.