Tag: military budget
How Congress loots the Treasury for the military-industrial-congressional complex
How the conjunction of dysfunctional military leadership, an ever-growing arms industry and a Congress that keeps handing them trillions of dollars, constitutes the full flowering of President Eisenhower's greatest fears for the future of the United States.
Stop calling the military budget a ‘defense’ budget
Let’s blow away the linguistic fog. The Pentagon budget is not a “defense” budget.
House panel approves $37.5 billion military budget increase for 2022
“A day after the United States withdrew from one of the most costly wars in history, the absolute LAST thing congressional representatives should be doing is increasing the Pentagon budget.”
Shrewd deceptions: Lying by omission
Understanding how misguided and arguably insane our military priorities and spending are.
81 senators vote to override Trump veto of NDAA as GOP...
It is the first veto override of Trump's presidency.
Rejecting Michèle Flournoy, progressives demand Biden pick Pentagon chief ‘untethered’ from...
"The power progressives hold must be wielded now before it's too late, before Flournoy is crowned and the U.S. slips further into decline..."
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.
‘Atrocious’: 188 Democrats join GOP to hand Trump $738 billion military...
"Every member of Congress who voted to give the most corrupt, unhinged, and unstable president in history $738 billion to fight endless wars...must never tell us that we cannot afford Medicare for All or a Green New Deal."
Bestselling pentagon fiction
Caltech receives $750 million from bottled water industry billionaires
For the Pentagon, happy days are here again (if...
Bernie Sanders: Democrats need to rein in our out-of-control military spending
Democrats must challenge unnecessary spending and interventions—beginning with the war in Yemen.
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David Huitema confirmed as ethics Czar amid fears of Trump’s return and conflict of...
As Trump’s second term looms, the Senate confirmed David Huitema to lead the Office of Government Ethics. Advocates praise the move, but critics warn of a tough road ahead for government accountability.
The worse the chaos that results, the sooner the eventual revulsion and turnaround
A too gullible population let itself be bamboozled.
Tlaib, ACLU, and advocates warn H.R. 9495 could empower Trump to silence nonprofits and...
Progressives and civil rights groups sound the alarm over legislation that could allow President-elect Trump to strip nonprofits of their tax-exempt status without evidence, threatening free speech and democracy.
JD Vance hints at Elon Musk’s role in targeting Social Security under Trump’s ‘efficiency’...
Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance reveals Elon Musk could lead a commission to cut federal spending, with Social Security and the Department of Defense as potential targets. The billionaire’s past decision-making raises concerns about the future of essential programs.
The ultimate corporate corruption: Trump appoints Musk to oversee US regulations
Examining the implications of Musk’s appointment to lead Trump’s new department of Government Efficiency and what It means for American democracy.