{"id":38836,"date":"2022-01-28T15:12:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T23:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=38836"},"modified":"2022-01-28T15:12:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T23:12:48","slug":"aaron-mat-and-andrew-cockburn-from-ukraine-to-yemen-us-arms-industry-reaps-the-spoils-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/28\/aaron-mat-and-andrew-cockburn-from-ukraine-to-yemen-us-arms-industry-reaps-the-spoils-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Mat&eacute; and Andrew Cockburn: From Ukraine to Yemen, US Arms Industry Reaps the Spoils of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/\">The Grayzone<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pushback with Aaron Mat\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US is pouring more weapons into Ukraine amid bellicose threats against Russia and the US-backed Saudi war on Yemen continues to massacre civilians. But not everyone sees a downside: \u201cI fully expect we\u2019re going to see some benefit from it,\u201d Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes said this week of these and other flashpoints.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Cockburn, Washington editor of Harper\u2019s Magazine and author of \u201cThe Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine,\u201d discusses the US arms industry\u2019s role in promoting and profiting from today\u2019s global conflicts, from Ukraine to Yemen to Syria.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t0DLNDAgAwU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/aaronmate\">Support Pushback at Patreon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Grayzone: Pushback with Aaron Mat\u00e9 The US is pouring more weapons into Ukraine amid bellicose threats against Russia and the US-backed Saudi war on Yemen continues to massacre civilians. But not everyone sees a downside: \u201cI fully expect we\u2019re going to see some benefit from it,\u201d Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes said this week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-38836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38836"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38838,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38836\/revisions\/38838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38836"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=38836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}