Tag: defense budget
GOP pushes for even larger Pentagon budget amid ‘unconscionable’ profiteering
"Free advice for the speaker of the House: if you want to cut spending so bad, start and end with the Pentagon budget," said one watchdog group.
Congressional amendment opens floodgates for war profiteers and a major ground...
After the catastrophic wars and ballooning U.S. military budgets of the past 25 years, we should be wise by now to the escalatory nature of the vicious spiral in which we are caught.
Cut the defense budget: Rep. Khanna on bloated Pentagon spending, ending...
“If you’re ending the forever war in Afghanistan … then why are we increasing, at the same time, the defense budget?”
Stupidity and blindness have destroyed whatever democracy the US ever had
Republicans AND Democrats are the problem.
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How about a general strike against Dollar General?
The brutal Dollar General approach to managing retail has paid off handsomely—for Dollar General investors and execs.
As RFK Jr. shifts his 2024 strategy, he’s bad news for progressives
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. offers progressives a mishmash of appealing statements, “free market” corporatism and assorted political toxins.
California governor names Feinstein’s replacement in Senate
Laphonza Butler will remain in the Senate until California holds two concurrent Senate elections in 2024.
A major win against factory farming points to a powerful new direction for the...
The victory could provide a glimpse of what a policy-focused national movement against the most climate-destructive forms of animal agriculture could look like.
US government shortens indigenous-proposed marine sanctuary to make way for offshore wind
“People don’t realize the damage that offshore wind could cause to the marine ecosystem."