Tag: military budget
Skyrocketing military spending undermines development aid to world’s poor
Over 100 countries increased their military budgets, with the top ten spenders alone accounting for 73 percent of the total.
Bernie Sanders slams Congress for claiming ‘no money’ for housing and...
The senator criticizes lawmakers for prioritizing the military-industrial complex over working families as the Senate advances a near $1 trillion defense budget.
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.
Sanders ‘disappointed, but not surprised,’ as Senate rejects 10% military spending...
"Spending $886 billion on the Pentagon will not make us safer."
The ultimate all-American slush fund
Could a new budget loophole allow Pentagon spending to soar even higher?
Biden’s 2024 funding proposal is a war budget and he is...
What does this have to do with "defense?"
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?
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Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Addicted to war?
War Fever, Trump-Style.
Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.