Greenpeace Warns Against NZ-US Minerals Deal
Greenpeace says New Zealand risks becoming part of the US military supply chain through a controversial new minerals agreement.

Greenpeace says New Zealand risks becoming part of the US military supply chain through a controversial new minerals agreement.

Rocket Lab’s soaring profits and expanding US military ties are forcing a bigger question: has New Zealand quietly become part of America’s war machine?
Buy, sell, hold — that’s the conversation. Not what it does. Not who it serves. Just the money.
Trillions for war. Cuts for people. The Military Industrial Complex doesn’t just win — it decides.

Rocket Lab’s growing US military contracts are raising concerns about New Zealand’s role in global defence and whether it is becoming entangled in the military industrial complex.
The idea that “war is a racket” and that wars are fought to line the pockets of profiteers is part of a tradition that comes out of an ideological consensus that is so widespread as to be nearly invisible.