Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Tag: U.S. Military

Merger mania in the military-industrial complex

Pentagon waste is a longstanding issue in desperate need of meaningful action.

What it means for hunger to burn through the Pentagon’s ranks

Why does the U.S. have an obsession with defense spending rather than analyzing the military's food insecurity?

Spending unlimited

Isn’t it time to end the national-security version of spending unlimited in Washington?

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.

Saving our schools starts with spending less on the military

Imagine if we invested in them rather than war.

War Secretary Austin comes clean: US wants a long war in...

Does the U.S. want to engage Russia a long war of attrition down to the last Ukrainian?

America’s disastrous 60-year war

Democracy may indeed be in the process of meeting its demise.

Legislators urge Biden to overhaul drone program

Fifty legislators recently sent a letter to President Joe Biden requesting him to overhaul U.S. counterterrorism policy to center human rights and the protection of civilians.

Biden considering deploying thousands of troops to Eastern Europe

"Ukraine demands a diplomatic and political resolution."

After Afghanistan, US military presence abroad faces domestic and foreign opposition...

While these reductions may seem like a U.S. military withdrawal from the world stage, its presence overseas remains vast.

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More than 120 House Democrats urge Biden to ratify Equal Rights Amendment as deadline...

Lawmakers push President Joe Biden to finalize a constitutional ban on sex discrimination while Republicans invoke past deadlines to stall progress.

Trump’s Cabinet picks aren’t just unqualified and inexperienced—they’re morally bankrupt

While every president has a right to select their own Cabinet appointees, the Senate also has the Constitutional authority to decide whether each nominee is fit to serve.

Endo’s end around: How one of the nation’s largest opioid makers escaped a $7...

Endo “came with a strategy purposely intended to reduce payments to opioid victims."

6 fracking Billionaires and climate denial groups behind Trump’s cabinet

Trump’s nominees are backed by major players in the world of climate obstruction – from Project 2025 and Koch network fixtures to oil-soaked Christian nationalists.