[news] Canada's Afghanistan Mission Produces Corporate Profits

[Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca]

Like their American counterparts, important segments of (Canada's) corporate sector have jumped on the security bandwagon, promoting a sharp increase in the military’s influence over our politics and a beefed-up role for the arms industry in our economy...For the CEOs who make up the membership of the (Canadian Council of Chief Executives), the fact that doing more to live up to Canada’s military “responsibilities” will provide their companies with lucrative investment and sales opportunities is strictly serendipitous.

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