Keaney Michael:
>
> As well as computer hardware and software and financial accounting, now we
> are on the verge of a new era of common standards in weapons
> production. In
> the newspaper version of this article the following ties are listed:
>
> BAE Systems bought Lockheed Martin's aerospace electronics business and
> controls business in 2000, and owns defence electronics company Tracor
Noam Chomsky has been saying that BAe has been taken over by the Americans
and that there is now a split between Euro defence industry and
Anglo-American defence industry, to mirror the big strategic divide. I
haven't been able to find much for or against Chomsky; BAe did take over
French firm Thompson, I think, and also is involved with the EU's fighter
plane project. Chomsky wants to say that Britain s now a wholly-owned US
subsidiary. I disagree, for reasons already stated: the British
establishment wants to get in bed with the EU, and anyway the British have
always clung to fig leaves like their own bomb, so it has never been a case
of comoplete British subjection, even when Churchill gave away the
Intelligence crown jewels plus British radar, jet engine and nascent nuke
technology in 1940.
The truth is that we don't really know anything, about GCHQ, Echelon or
anything else. We are victims of massive disinformation and secrecy on all
sides. What we do have is the speculations of people like Mary Kaldor.
Mark Jones
