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The sky is reflected on the facade of Raytheon's Integrated Defense Systems facility, June 10, 2019, in Woburn, Mass.
TOP military contractor RTX agreeing to pay more than $950 million (£726m) to resolve bribery and fraud claims “barely touches the surface,” say activists.
RTX, the second largest weapons manufacturer in the United States with yearly revenue of over $67 billion (£51bn), agreed on Wednesday to pay more than $950m to resolve allegations that it defrauded the government and paid bribes to secure business with Qatar.
The company reached the agreement in separate cases in federal court in Brooklyn and Massachusetts and agreed to hire independent monitors to oversee compliance with anti-corruption and anti-fraud laws.
Washington and its Western allies decry human rights abuses while arming and shielding Israel, turning contradiction into policy, argues RAMZY BAROUD
In part one of two articles, STEVE BISHOP exposes blatant lies of the warmongers who demand ‘unconditional surrender’ from Iran using the excuse of nuclear weapons, when it is Israel that blatantly disregards international law