Military Madness
Nearly 50 years and nothing ever changes, does it?
I still can’t get no satisfaction
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The Pentagon budget still rising, 40 years later
The rationale for spending more than $700 billion a year on the Pentagon—and well over $1.2 trillion for national security writ large—simply does not exist.
How long can America maintain a war economy?
The major challenge for the United States is the perennial trade-off between guns and butter.
Dispossessed in the Name of ‘Security’
“The military is looking to expand its role by emphasizing what it portrays as ‘security’ threats arising from ecological disasters.”
Writing History Before It Happens
With an emphasis on the U.S. national security state and its follies, Tom Engelhardt explores nine repeat headlines, each a "surefire" news story guaranteed to appear sometime in the U.S. news stream between June 2015 and the unknown future.
Why were the Saudi streets so quiet?
While Mexicans pour out on the streets to protest Trump’s anti-immigrant policies, there was nary a Saudi protester chanting “Trump: Go home.”
A wide world of winless war
Globe-trotting U.S. special ops forces already deployed to 137 nations in 2017.
War with China?
Has a war with China already begun?
As war keeps poisoning humanity, organizing continues to be the antidote
In the long run, peace activism is essential for overcoming militarism. And organizing is what makes that possible.