bilaterals.org | Why are weapons-makers excited by TTIP?
by David Cronin
Could the world’s largest weapons company soon be managing part of our medical systems?
That absurd and nasty idea is being actively discussed. The National Health Service in England recently held a meeting for firms interested in providing support services to doctors. Among those firms were Lockheed Martin, the same company that has supplied interrogators to the US torture chambers of Guantanamo Bay, fighter jets to Israel and cluster bombs dropped by US forces in Afghanistan.
Not content with arming a superpower, Lockheed has been trying to muscle into civilian markets. For a number of years, it has been involved in running parts of the postal services in the US and Sweden.
The arms industry is hoping that the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) will provide it with greater opportunities.
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The arms industry
is hoping that the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
(TTIP) will provide it with greater opportunities. [EPA / Stephane De
Greef, LCMM]
