Tag: Pentagon
What would it take for military spending in America to go...
We have become George Orwell’s Oceania, where war is peace, surveillance is privacy, and censorship is free speech.
Pentagon projected to hand $407 billion to private military contractors this...
"Military spending involves a massive redistribution of wealth from the public to private sector."
The Pentagon’s 20-year killing spree has always treated civilians as expendable
Overall, military spending accounts for about half of the federal government’s total discretionary spending -- while programs for helping instead of killing are on short rations for local, state and national government agencies.
No punishment for US troops who slaughtered 10 Afghan civilians, says...
“If the Pentagon wants to come clean about this horrific event, it will release documents and videotapes that show who was responsible for key decisions and what technological failings were responsible.”
Progressives slam GOP’s ‘shameful’ attempt to add another $25 billion to...
"It's time to fix our broken budget priorities, and start putting human needs over Pentagon greed."
The Pentagon as Pentagod
In truth, the deity America believes in is the five-sided one headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.
How to cut $1 trillion from the Pentagon
A CBO report requested by Bernie Sanders lays out three options for a modest Pentagon trim over the next decade. Can we pull it off?
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Not very bright
How much of Donald Trump’s directive on U.S. tariffs imposed on nations all over the world—that in recent days has caused a stock market loss of trillions of dollars—is a result of his not being very bright?
Over 4,000 factory workers laid off as Trump tariffs spark economic chaos
A wave of mass layoffs across the U.S. exposes the real cost of Trump’s trade war, as union leaders and lawmakers warn of deepening instability in American manufacturing.
Now the putz has really done it, exposing the USA as trade pariah but,...
As a destroyer of global trade and hard-won allied trust, Trump mayhem in eight weeks tops the devastation Covid took two years to achieve.
Patriotic Millionaires challenge oligarch power with sweeping economic plan
As economic inequality worsens and public frustration grows, a coalition of wealthy Americans offers a radical legislative blueprint to dismantle the grip of the ultra-rich on democracy.
Chevron ordered to pay $744 million for decades of destruction to Louisiana’s coastal wetlands
A Louisiana jury’s landmark verdict against Chevron signals a major shift in holding Big Oil accountable for environmental degradation and decades of ignored coastal restoration laws.