Sunday, November 17, 2024

Tag: military

The ultimate all-American slush fund

Could a new budget loophole allow Pentagon spending to soar even higher?

The numbers BlackRock won’t crunch

A giant with such an enormous appetite should find room for all kinds of facts and figures—but this one’s a bit of a picky eater. 

Leaks reveal reality behind US propaganda in Ukraine

Like in previous U.S. wars, the veil of propaganda is unraveling around a senseless and unnecessary war that is killing a generation of young Ukrainians.

Spurring an endless arms race

Why is the Pentagon budget so high?

A highway to peace or a highway to hell?

Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry, fully engaged in corralling, containing, and constraining it, Eisenhower concluded, could save democracy and bolster peaceful methods and goals. 

Choosing life in a pro-violence society

Post-Dobbs abortion access for military dependents is in question.

The urgent climate case for defunding the Pentagon

Is it finally time to defund war?

A military rich in dollars, poor in people

A frayed social safety net and the military.

House votes down amendments to cut ‘outrageous’ military budget

"The good news is: the American people are on to the racket and mobilizing to demand a reallocation of funding away from the Pentagon and to prioritize human needs."

Ukraine

The significance of Ukraine’s struggle certainly doesn’t lie in educating Americans, but perhaps it is finally making us reckon with the costs of war, as we’ve needed to do for so long.

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