How Arms Manufacturers Are Already Profiting from the Paris Attacks

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{Rough transcript from Democracy Now:} "Stock Prices of Weapons Manufacturers Soaring Since the [Paris] Attack . . . .

{Greenwald:} "Instantly, if you look at the charts of the leading weapons manufacturers . . . straight up vertical line . . . even as the rest of the market was flat or up very slightly . . . . every time there's a terrorist attack, Western leaders exploit it to do more wars, which in turn means they transfer huge amounts of taxpayers' money to these corporations that sell arms. . . . investors are fully aware that the main people who are going to benefit are not the people of the West or the people of Syria but the military-industrial complex."

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{Amy Goodman:} " . . . US signing one massive arms deal after another with Saudi Arabia."

{Greenwald:} "The weirdest part of the war on terror is, one county most identified with the 911 attacks, which happens to be the second closest ally of the US in that region, Saudia Arabia, which was not only responsible for lots of parts of Al Qaeda are funding ISIS as well, yet we continue to hug them while waging war on countries that have never had anything to do with attacks on our country."

{Amy Goodman:} " . . . submissive media role is key."

Video at https://www.facebook.com/democracynow/videos/10153685917513279/ .