Tag: defense spending
Is America’s $1 trillion defense budget defensible amid economic struggles?
Bernie Sanders challenges America’s staggering military budget, calling for reforms to address fraud, waste, and misplaced priorities.
Pentagon’s financial abyss: Sanders exposes decades of dodged audits and rampant...
Amidst soaring defense spending, a new GAO report uncovers the Pentagon's chronic evasion of basic fraud prevention measures, with Senator Bernie Sanders leading the charge for accountability.
Congressional stalemate: $858 billion for military, yet $12 billion child poverty...
A critical look at the Congressional impasse over funding $12 billion for Child Tax Credit expansion amid the approval of a colossal $858 billion military budget.
Here are the names of 23 Democrats that joined Republicans in...
The U.S. already spends more on military than the next seven countries – China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, the U.K., India, France, and Japan – combined.
The scandal of Pentagon spending
Your tax dollars support troops of defense contractor CEOs.
The hidden costs of “national security”
Ten ways your tax dollars pay for war – past, present, and future.
Why spend $54 billion more on the Pentagon? To start a...
The president apparently wants to put the U.S. on a permanent war footing to sustain his unpopular presidency.
Trump budget puts 12 million people at risk of losing housing
The White House is hoping that Congress will approve of a $54 billion boost to Pentagon coffers.
The Republicans’ Military Budget Could Make Every Homeless Person In America...
$596 billion was spent on the military in 2015 and Republicans are looking to increase the defense budget even more.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.