Lockheed Martin Our New Big Brother

Just another piece of the puzzle that makes us scream!

"Lockheed Martin doesn’t actually run the U.S. government, but sometimes it seems as if it might as well. After all, it received $36 billion in government contracts in 2008 alone, more than any company in history. It now does work for more than two dozen government agencies from the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy to the Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency. It’s involved in surveillance and information processing for the CIA, the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Pentagon, the Census Bureau, and the Postal Service".

Read more here: William Hartung: Is Lockheed Martin Shadowing You? How a Giant Weapons Maker Became the New Big Brother