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Lockheed Martin Corporation

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2011

    Boeing Co. Gouges Taxpayers $1,679 for $8 Spare Part: So That's How it Made a Profit!

    ​A week after Boeing announced a 13 percent, $586 million first-quarter profit, we learn about some oldie-but-goodie sales practices that have helped keep the Lazy B solvent: Charging $644.75 for a tiny plastic motor gear that should cost only $12.51, and pricing a dime-sized plastic roller as ... More >>

  • News

    March 2, 2011

    Is Dawud Malik the Wrong Man?

    44 years after being sentenced for murders he says he didn't commit, freedom might come with a cost: ignoring his innocence.

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2010

    'Top Secret America': Microsoft, Boeing, Adapx Involved In Clandestine Anti-Terrorism Warfare

    ​Of nearly 1,300 government organizations and almost 2,000 private companies working on counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence programs in the U.S., 17 federal agencies and six of the companies are located in and around Seattle, the Washington Post reports today in a sweeping acc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2010

    Reader: Boeing Never Wrote Me Back Either

    "Dearest Boeing..."​Reader Joe Ferrel responds to Boeing Sends Form Letter in Response to 8-Year-Old's Airplane Drawing. "When I was an undergrad doing a degree in aviation safety I wrote Boeing to ask for some information on cabin safety. They wrote back saying they didn't have time for coll ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2010

    Lockheed Martin Memorializes John Murtha in Full-Page Ad

    TPMDearest John, Thanks for the cash.​Since corporations are people now, I guess it's OK to address them as such. So quit being an idiot, Lockheed Martin. Most people already presume that big defense giants like you are in bed with powerful legislators like the late Rep. John Murtha. So maybe ... More >>

  • Film

    December 16, 2009

    They Came to Play: Music Played for Love, Not Money

    TPMDearest John, Thanks for the cash.​Since corporations are people now, I guess it's OK to address them as such. So quit being an idiot, Lockheed Martin. Most people already presume that big defense giants like you are in bed with powerful legislators like the late Rep. John Murtha. So maybe ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 28, 2009

    In Search of Amelia Earhart

    TPMDearest John, Thanks for the cash.​Since corporations are people now, I guess it's OK to address them as such. So quit being an idiot, Lockheed Martin. Most people already presume that big defense giants like you are in bed with powerful legislators like the late Rep. John Murtha. So maybe ... More >>

  • Arts

    October 28, 2009

    The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events

    TPMDearest John, Thanks for the cash.​Since corporations are people now, I guess it's OK to address them as such. So quit being an idiot, Lockheed Martin. Most people already presume that big defense giants like you are in bed with powerful legislators like the late Rep. John Murtha. So maybe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2009

    All the Boeing News That's Fit to Put in a Blog Post

    While a former Boeing engineer faces the United States' first ever economic espionage trial--for allegedly stealing space program secrets and giving them to China (Beijing, we have a problem!)--the company as a whole lost a big federal case. A US Court of Appeals ruled that the government could canc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2009

    Bob Gates' Boeing Par-tees

    The Boeing Co. was among the big defense contractors who threw $340,000 worth of parties and other events to honor Defense Sect. Robert Gates last year, reports public watchdog CREW, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (D.C.). But Gates, the Bush-administration holdover who continue ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2008

    Boeing's Misconduct

    The Boeing Co. was among the big defense contractors who threw $340,000 worth of parties and other events to honor Defense Sect. Robert Gates last year, reports public watchdog CREW, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (D.C.). But Gates, the Bush-administration holdover who continue ... More >>

  • News

    March 26, 2008

    Lazy B's Other Problem

    Cost increases and delays seem likely for its current U.S. Army project.

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2008

    Boeing's Defense Overruns, Cont.

    Cost increases and delays seem likely for its current U.S. Army project.

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2006

    Rendition Airways

    Cost increases and delays seem likely for its current U.S. Army project.

  • News

    December 28, 2005

    Bosnia, Bikes, and Blood

    Dec. 28, 2005-Jan. 3, 2006

  • News

    December 21, 2005

    The War After Christmas

    Dec. 21-27, 2005

  • News

    December 14, 2005

    We Have the Rights Stuff

    Dec. 14-20, 2005

  • News

    October 12, 2005

    Race, Jazz, and Katrina

    Oct. 12-18, 2005

  • News

    February 23, 2005

    Transfer of Wealth

    Oct. 12-18, 2005

  • News

    December 1, 2004

    'Embarrassing Don'

    New Air Force e-mails released by Sen. John McCain throw light on the Boeing tanker scandal.

  • News

    December 1, 2004

    Racket Science

    Lockheed says in a civil suit that Boeing's competitive behavior constitutes racketeering. Is a criminal probe next?

  • News

    October 13, 2004

    Politics, Strippergate, The City, and Boeing

    Lockheed says in a civil suit that Boeing's competitive behavior constitutes racketeering. Is a criminal probe next?

  • News

    April 21, 2004

    Plane Pain

    Boeing's ethical challenges aren't a problem for its new business partner, the state. At least not yet.

  • News

    December 17, 2003

    Facing Our Losses

    Here's one measure of the cost of fighting terrorism and liberating Iraq and Afghanistan: 395 with Washington state connections are dead.

  • News

    December 3, 2003

    A New Ethical Era for the Sleazy B?

    Don't count on it.

  • News

    December 3, 2003

    Bad News Boeing

    Since Phil Condit took over, it's been one thing after another. And the bigger Boeing's grown, the more unmanageable it's become.

  • News

    November 26, 2003

    Crime, Pike Place Market, Boeing, and Media

    Since Phil Condit took over, it's been one thing after another. And the bigger Boeing's grown, the more unmanageable it's become.

  • News

    August 6, 2003

    Ethics Ain't Rocket Science

    And so Boeing sends its workers to school for a day.

  • News

    May 21, 2003

    When Pork Flies

    With help from friends, Boeing continues to push the envelope of taxpayer largesse.

  • News

    January 22, 2003

    "It is easier to focus on an individual than to ask hard questions about what is going on in these institutions/offices."

    With help from friends, Boeing continues to push the envelope of taxpayer largesse.

  • News

    November 7, 2001

    American ingenuity

    With help from friends, Boeing continues to push the envelope of taxpayer largesse.

  • News

    October 10, 2001

    Boeing's war

    Will growth in military business offset the decline in commercial jet building?

  • News

    March 28, 2001

    Bombs away

    Will growth in military business offset the decline in commercial jet building?

  • News

    February 21, 2001

    What lies beneath

    The other underground tour reveals an ugly picture.

  • News

    January 26, 2000

    The scam that won't die

    The other underground tour reveals an ugly picture.

  • News

    September 22, 1999

    Death to the highest bidder

    The other underground tour reveals an ugly picture.

  • News

    May 6, 1998

    A wing, a prayer, and a bailout

    Boeing balances its books by going to the taxpayer well again—and selling us surplus fighters the military doesn't even want.

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