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Military-Industrial Complex Gets Rich off Trump’s Record Saudi Arms Deal

22-5-2017 < Blacklisted News 65 73 words
 

In news that should surprise no one, the stock prices of top defense contractors soared on Monday after Donald Trump signed the largest arms deal in United States history with Saudi Arabia over the weekend. That deal, hailed by the White House as a “significant expansion of…(the) security relationship” between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, is worth $350 billion over the next ten years. However, $110 billion of it will take effect immediately.

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