Tag: military-industrial complex
Is America’s $1 trillion defense budget defensible amid economic struggles?
Bernie Sanders challenges America’s staggering military budget, calling for reforms to address fraud, waste, and misplaced priorities.
The military-industrial complex is fueling climate catastrophe—let’s demand accountability at COP
For our survival and for each other, we must demand climate justice that tells the truth.
The military-industrial complex is killing us all
Bombs injure. Bombs kill. Bombs destroy. Bombs also make people rich.
War is bad for you—and the economy
The military-industrial complex will have yet another never-ending claim on our scarce national resources.
Can the Military-Industrial Complex be tamed?
Cutting the Pentagon's budget in half would finally force the generals to think.
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,”...
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