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The University of California, Riverside, is a war profiteering institution. From advisors to business students, the university has their hands on nearly every piece of the pie when it comes to making money off of other people's suffering.
Don't believe us? Feel free to read through our site and learn just how hungry Chancellor Wilcox is for his piece.
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UCR BCOE/ECE Board of Advisors
More than half of the members of the BCOE/ECE Board of Advisors work for companies which profit from war.
“The deaths we tallied are likely a vast undercount of the true toll these wars have taken on human life.”
900,000+
deaths
"The death toll [of the war on terror], standing at an estimated 897,000 to 929,000, includes U.S. military members, allied fighters, opposition fighters, civilians, journalists and humanitarian aid workers who were killed as a direct result of war, whether by bombs, bullets or fire. It does not, the researchers noted, include the many indirect deaths the war on terror has caused by way of disease, displacement and loss of access to food or clean drinking water."
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Source: Brown University
$14 trillion
"Pentagon spending has totaled over $14 trillion since the start of the war in Afghanistan, with one-third to one-half of the total going to military contractors."
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Companies took advantage of this enormous demand for goods, some even committing fraud to expedite their profits. The estimated loss from this greed lies between $31 and $60 billion.
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Source: Brown University
700+
lobbyists per year
"Weapons makers have spent $2.5 billion on lobbying over the past two decades, employing, on average, over 700 lobbyists per year over the past five years. That is more than one for every member of Congress."
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Lobbying had, and still has, control over how much money is spent towards the military. By puppeteeringthe votes of congressmen for decades, mega-corporations have turned people's lives into a game of chess.
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Source: Brown University