US Arms Transfers Reach Unprecedented Highs

Via Secrecy News:

“In worldwide arms transfer agreements in 2011 — to both developed and developing nations — the United States dominated, ranking first with $66.3 billion in such agreements or 77.7% of all such agreements. This is the highest single year agreements total in the history of the U.S. arms export program,” the CRS report said.

Weapons welfare from Washington has many deleterious effects, from fueling killings and mass rape in the Congo and suppressing democracy in Bahrain (among innumerable other dictatorships), to keeping the military industrial complex fat and happy and enabling Israeli crimes against Palestinians. The Obama administration is breaking records in this respect.