Tag: military-industrial complex
Eisenhower’s ghost haunts Biden’s foreign policy team
The most serious challenge facing President-elect Biden's foreign policy team, which is not a threat from a hostile country, but the corruption of U.S. policy by powerful corporate interests, is the "unwarranted influence" of the Military-Industrial Complex.
Fighting for America’s soul
Progressives are fighting to save the values and institutions on which their country was founded.
Are Sanders and Warren throwing a lifeline to the military-industrial complex?
Without a genuine commitment to peace and disarmament, the next president will find him- or herself caught in the same bind as Obama and Trump.
‘We cannot keep handing over billions to military-industrial complex,’ says Sanders...
Sen. Bernie Sanders said the United States cannot continue pouring massive sums into the Pentagon at the expense of domestic priorities after...
Merger mania
When, in his farewell address in 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the dangers of the “unwarranted influence” wielded by the “military-industrial complex,”...
The devil’s dynamo
The Devil’s Dynamo of today has lead to a modern version of colonialism and empire.
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Low-paid workers are unionizing. Corporations are spending a ton to stop them.
A record number of workers are trying to form labor unions, a Center for Public Integrity analysis shows. Corporate America is alarmed.
Prospects for a republic beset with disunity 
A republic needs endless work/ Or insurgent forces go berserk.
Italy’s far right rode inequality to victory — but has no answers for it
A let-the-rich-be government has opened the doors to the smiling heirs of Italy’s neofascist factions.
California Gov. Newsom proposes windfall profits tax on Big Oil
Calls for windfall profits taxes have increased globally in recent weeks
This one thing made Alex Jones stop lying
It turns out there actually might be a way to stop the constant stream of lies coming from the right-wing media. Sue. Them.