Tag: military budget

How the conjunction of dysfunctional military leadership, an ever-growing arms industry and a Congress that keeps handing them trillions of dollars, constitutes the full flowering of President Eisenhower's greatest fears for the future of the United States.

Let’s blow away the linguistic fog. The Pentagon budget is not a “defense” budget.

“A day after the United States withdrew from one of the most costly wars in history, the absolute LAST thing congressional representatives should be doing is increasing the Pentagon budget.”

Understanding how misguided and arguably insane our military priorities and spending are.

It is the first veto override of Trump's presidency.

"The power progressives hold must be wielded now before it's too late, before Flournoy is crowned and the U.S. slips further into decline..."

The rationale for spending more than $700 billion a year on the Pentagon—and well over $1.2 trillion for national security writ large—simply does not exist.

"Every member of Congress who voted to give the most corrupt, unhinged, and unstable president in history $738 billion to fight endless wars...must never tell us that we cannot afford Medicare for All or a Green New Deal."

Caltech receives $750 million from bottled water industry billionaires  For the Pentagon, happy days are here again (if...

Democrats must challenge unnecessary spending and interventions—beginning with the war in Yemen.