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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Majority of Democrats want party leaders replaced as DNC turmoil deepens
New polling reveals growing discontent with Democratic leadership as base pushes for stronger opposition to Trump and support for progressive policies.
Trump announces Iran-Israel cease-fire after illegal US strikes on nuclear sites
Experts warn of nuclear treaty collapse and growing backlash as Trump bypasses Congress to launch war and declare peace.
When and how do reluctant Dems ‘Cry ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of war-like...
Trumpism will push all limits until stopped by a greater coalition, like 200 judicial rebukes and a political surge no amateur insurrectionists can deny. We need far more than Dem mice that roar but don’t bite.
Bombing Iran is part of the USA’s repetition compulsion for war war war
“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.”
Mahmoud Khalil is free: Follow his journey from ICE jail to Newark Airport to...
Mahmoud Khalil reunited with his family over the weekend after being released on bail by a federal judge Friday, ending his detention in a Louisiana ICE jail after more than 100 days.