#war-profiteering

#war-profiteering

War is a racket, he couldn't have imagined that a sitting US president would time announcements about major military operations in order to manipulate the stock market. But as the US economy has been increasingly financialized, so too has the nature of war profiteering, increasingly driven by insider trading, oil speculators, and the portfolio earnings of venture capital (VC) investors, tech billionaires, and private-equity fund managers.

I realized that we don't really think about it this way, but Sodom was a book about war profiteers, that the four men who perpetrated the atrocious, sexual, violent acts of kidnapping people-girls and boys-to bring them to their chateau to do whatever they want with them, they could do that because they were war profiteers within the war of Louis XIV.

The word came first. - a compound that recently surfaced in German headlines, describing the anxiety inside the boardrooms of arms manufacturers at the prospect of an end to war. For Benjamin Alexander Huseby and Serhat Işık, the designers behind Friedensangst GmbH, it became a trigger for Autumn/Winter 2026, shown inside Berlin's vast, concrete Kraftwerk. Backstage at their show, Huseby had the word emblazoned on his T-shirt.

Their wars, their profits, our deaths, stop the genocide in Palestine, read the banner at the head of the march, which organisers claimed drew more than 4,000 protesters.