Tag: military budget
Bernie Sanders: Democrats need to rein in our out-of-control military spending
Democrats must challenge unnecessary spending and interventions—beginning with the war in Yemen.
Exclusive: The Pentagon’s massive accounting fraud exposed
How U.S. military spending keeps rising even as the Pentagon flunks its audits.
How pro-war Democrats use Russiagate to bloat the military – and why...
Russia became the bipartisan justification for an $716 billion defense budget and nuclear build-up.
40 Democrats join Republicans and vote for $717 billion military spending...
The NDAA will hit Donald Trump's desk today and is "on track to become law before the start of the fiscal year for the first time since the fiscal 1997 bill."
How the war industry corrupts the US Congress
Join us in building an economy that is not dependent on killing and maiming people to boost the profits of weapons manufacturers.
How the Pentagon devours the budget
While the Trump administration is preparing to launch full-scale assaults on food stamps, Medicaid, and Medicare, it’s war on everything except the U.S. military.
The real figure for military spending by the US is 66.3%...
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How Donald Trump and Elon Musk are waging a deep and wide ‘uncivil war’
Historians and neuro-scientists show there are well-established psychological patterns that explain how personal fear fosters anger that leads to a need for action to eliminate the fear.
You’re wrong Elon. Social Security’s not the ‘Ponzi Scheme’–The ‘unrealized gains’– taxloophole is…
“At current interest and tax rates, it is far cheaper to borrow against the value of one's shares than to sell them and pay taxes on the gains.”
Schumer’s lack of fight is the real problem
Whether you read Chuck Schumer as surrendering or taking an unwise but principled stance, one thing is clear: People now want leaders who fight.
Israel’s renewed blockade and airstrikes leave Gaza’s children starving as Trump backs Netanyahu’s escalation
Human rights groups warn that these actions constitute grave violations of international law and could amount to war crimes.
Trump’s backpedaling shows he’s not invincible
Protests will not directly convince Trump to change his views. But they can create an activated base of opposition.