Wednesday, October 14, 2026

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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Fabrications, fraud and false accounting: how Deloitte helped Abramovich hide $10bn

The Big Four firm spent years fabricating corporate papers that helped the sanctioned oligarch conceal assets and dodge tax
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Ready, Aim, Fire! with the latest culture of death stunt politics.
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Coalition asks FCC to stay repeal of 39 percent TV ownership cap

Press freedom groups and unions say only Congress can change the limit, as cable trade groups file their own challenge
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UN and The Hague Confront Impunity for War Crimes

As King Abdullah of Jordan reminded the General Assembly, the UN and the world's governments have the means to enforce international law, if and when they choose to do so