The State Department announced in August that it will no longer publish World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers (WMEAT) reports, which have been released by the US government since the 1960s.
The WMEATs detail US global military spending, arms transfers, and related data for each country in the world. The 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) included an amendment that repealed a 1994 provision requiring the State Department to publish a WMEAT each year.
“Section 5114(b)(4) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 repealed the 1994 statutory provision that required the Department of State to publish an edition of WMEAT every year. Consistent with this repeal, the Department of State will cease to produce and publish WMEAT,” the State Department said on its website.
The State Department said that the report it published in 2021 was the “final edition” of the WMEAT. The 2021 WMEAT covered an 11-year period from 2009 through 2019 and found that the US was by far the world’s largest arms dealer. During that period, about “79 percent of world arms trade by value appears to have been supplied by the United States.”
The discontinuation of the WMEAT reports, which reduces the US government’s transparency, comes as the US is shipping billions of dollars worth of arms into Ukraine with virtually no oversight. Since Russia invaded on February 24, the US has pledged $15.1 billion in weapons for Kyiv.
“Darkness, darkness, be my pillow…” (from the Youngbloods, if you’re old enough to remember). I guess that’s what we should all be doing now. Digging the darkness. It shields us from knowledge. We should welcome our Overlords’ decision to protect us from the transparency that discloses things that “shouldn’t” be seen in the light of day.
Exactly. Take the blue pill and enjoy the life you’ve been allotted. Really, how important is it to know what’s really going on?
THX=1138, Brave New World……etc
Wonderful hilarious book by Rudy Rucker, Software, in which the old geezers are relocated to Florida and drop-shipped drugs, etc. Also free “boppers” (robots) have taken over the moon. From 1982. Pretty prescient.
Alright, not only do we spend $800 billion on “defense” plus a nonstop train of giveaways to Ukraine and other MIC favorites PLUS a black budget for the CIA, we’ll spend it with zero transparency whatsoever. Literally printing ridiculous amount of money into a black hole.
Well, consider yourself lucky you live in a democracy, my friend. Otherwise, you might have no idea what your government is spending money on … oh wait …
They are hiding this for a reason. It is embarrassing to admit their own behavior.
These types, a kinda defective human being, are perfectly immune to shame; but, yes, a very bad sign of what’s to come, economically, militarily and the police state. The NYT will no longer need to lie.
WMEATS. How appropriate!!!
Out of sight, out of mind.
“Section 5114(b)(4) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 repealed the 1994 statutory provision that required the Department of State to publish an edition of WMEAT every year. Consistent with this repeal, the Department of State will cease to produce and publish WMEAT,” the State Department said on its website.
Curious as to who proposed this amendment. But it’s hilarious that one part of the criminal gang made it possible for another part of the criminal gang to make it sound like they are just doing their duty by following the NDAA.
“The State Department that it will no longer publish World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers (WMEAT) reports, which have been released by the US government since 1960”.
Of course, criminal corrupt DimoRats hiding the $Billions stolen from American taxpayers and given to the most criminal corrupt country in Europe!
So how do you like senile angry criminal Joey Biden and his puppet master obama now.
wow obama is the puppet master of biden?
does obama manipulate the biden like a marionette puppet or more like a sock puppet?
or maybe biden is obama’s finger puppet?
“puppet master” ! LOL
now i am thinking that not only was trump a puppet, but he also had his own puppet as well.
how many hands would it take to manipulate a puppet that also manipulates it’s own puppets?
actual critical thinkers actually want to know.
Nothing new, in Afghanistan it lasted 20 years and long before that, in fact is is part of the war business. We don’t know the half of it, how does the F-35 fighter jet fit in ?
Were there squawks from the other party? The other party in crime(s).
Of course not, but there is one thing both parties have in common, all of them are bloodsuckers.