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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Unions win settlement forcing Trump administration to rescind shutdown mass-firing policy
The agreement follows a court fight that began after roughly 4,200 federal employees received layoff notices during last fall's 43-day shutdown.
States settle antitrust suit over $111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. merger
Critics say a force-majeure clause and a company-appointed editorial board leave the settlement's protections easy to escape.
The best comeuppance for the first anti-American administration – perpetual exposure as the seditious...
If Russia or China wanted a Manchurian candidate (a brainwashed stooge who betrays his own background and constituency), could they have surpassed the president harumphing in the White House?
Federal judge orders White House to restore access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico
The order lasts 14 days, and the outlets have until Monday to seek a preliminary injunction after some reporters were briefly turned away despite the ruling.
Why didn’t Netanyahu’s cabinet preempt October 7 (since it knew about it in advance)?
New York Times reporting confirms Israeli leadership had advance intelligence before the October 7 attack, raising fresh questions about why it was not acted on.