Sentences with phrase «growing military industrial complex»

In THE POST, director Steven Spielberg fluidly mirrors this shot with a SteadiCam following Bradlee (Tom Hanks) through the newsroom as the drama begins to unfold around Daniel Ellsberg's (Matthew Rhys) 1971 leak of the Pentagon Papers — a decades - spanning intelligence assessment which betrayed administration doubts about success in Vietnam, highlighting the influence of what Eisenhower warned was a growing Military Industrial Complex.

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Even now, the Democratic majority remains reluctant to use its power of the purse to cut off funding for the war, thereby ending the American occupation of Iraq and starting to curtail the ever - growing power of the military - industrial complex.

When much of American pop culture was infatuated with the swinging, psychedelic 1960s, John Frankenheimer was focused on the decade's darker side — the sour aftertaste of McCarthyism, the expanding military - industrial complex, the growing sense that technology might be controlling us instead of the other way around.

Everybody and his sister knows that the Iraq war was always only ever about oil and the ever - growing greed of the military industrial complex.

Lately, we've made them like Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch's The Ultimates, weaponized supersoldiers working for the military - industrial complex, which then grew into Iron Man, who is a superhero celebrity, an everyone - is - a-star kind of thing.

Nearly 6 decades ago, President Eisenhower in his 1961 farewell address to the nation, in which the president famously warned of the danger to the nation of a growing armaments industry, referred to as a «military - industrial complex,» and talked about the risks posed by a scientific - technological elite.