Tag: defense spending
US-Iran war intensifies as Trump orders nightly strikes and American casualties...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told senators the campaign has already cost $37.5bn and asked for nearly $70bn more, even as oil tops $86 a barrel, allied Gulf states absorb Iranian reprisals, and no ceasefire holds.
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.
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Watchdog reporting examines a pension officer’s fossil fuel trades and a fire truck monopoly
The Lever's latest investigations trace a California retirement chief's oil and gas stock trading and a spreading set of antitrust suits over who builds America's fire engines.
Mississippi pension fund sues Apollo Global Management over downplayed Epstein ties
The fund manages retirement savings for hundreds of thousands of Mississippi teachers, police officers and other public workers, and a shareholder case like it can force a company to hand over internal records.
ProPublica journalists strike over AI policy, exposing labor fault lines inside investigative media
The NewsGuild says two years of bargaining stalled over job security and artificial intelligence, and the union has taken its case to federal labor regulators.
U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese Slams U.S. “Complicity” as Trump Meets Netanyahu Despite ICC Warrant
We speak to Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, about Israel’s continued impunity from international law.
The Movement Against Big Tech’s Flock Cameras Transcends Partisanship—and It’s Winning
Much like the resistance to AI data centers, the opposition to Flock surveillance cameras has brought the left and the right together against billionaires who are trying to force America into becoming even more of a police state.