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        In a sales pitch to the Pentagon over a decade ago, the Virginia-based military contractor imagined a hypothetical war with Iran by 2020. With its dream edging closer to reality following the recent Trump-ordered killing of Iranian military leaders, Northrop Grumman — which has received billions of dollars' worth of government contracts despite a record of fraud — saw a dramatic jump in its stock price. 
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
          
              
            
            
            
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        Influence peddlers and defense contractors see dollar signs in a bellicose foreign policy and military outsourcing
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
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        This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 10 No. 6, "Waging Peace." Find more from that issue here.