How Much Money Was Made in the War on Terro?

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"This feels like probably a good time to acknowledge the fact that a lot of money was made in the war on terro too ri. We've a paper coming out soon that asks that question, who has profited from the pos eleman wars?" "Lockheed martin made 75 billion dollars in 20 20 in pendagon contracts," he says. 'It's so comfortable for us as americans to just think, oh, that's happening to civilians over there in that of the world'

The Department of Defense tracks how much US wars cost, but last week President Biden cited instead accounting from the Costs of War Project at Brown University. Its co-director, Stephanie Savell, explains why.

Today’s show was produced by Victoria Chamberlin with help from Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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