Tag: military spending
The U.S. still spends more on its military than over 144...
World military spending reached a new record high of $2.4 trillion in 2022, with the United States spending the most by far.
Can the Military-Industrial Complex be tamed?
Cutting the Pentagon's budget in half would finally force the generals to think.
What it means for hunger to burn through the Pentagon’s ranks
Why does the U.S. have an obsession with defense spending rather than analyzing the military's food insecurity?
Spending unlimited
Isn’t it time to end the national-security version of spending unlimited in Washington?
What would it take for military spending in America to go...
We have become George Orwell’s Oceania, where war is peace, surveillance is privacy, and censorship is free speech.
The Pentagon just got $778 billion, but USAID is running out...
“Why is there more money for the military-industrial complex… at the same time the U.S. is refusing to spend the $25 billion needed to make enough additional vaccines to vaccinate the world?”
‘No Militarization of Space Act’ introduced in Congress
It is sponsored by five members of the House of Representatives led by Representative Jared Huffman called the U.S. Space Force “costly and unnecessary.”
War is making us poor!
Why is it that the U.S. spends more on military than the next 9 countries combined?
World military spending rises to a hefty $2.0 trillion despite UN...
There’s still time to reevaluate this approach, restructure U..S military spending, and focus on human needs.
‘The greatest purveyor of violence in the world’
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
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A successful general strike requires trauma-informed mutual aid
To strike at scale and over the long-term, we need to build real trust so that we can lean on each other when the paychecks stop.
This is what accountability looks like
Whether it's the refusal to release all the Epstein files, the failure to punish Trump for his anti-democratic actions, or the launching of the war in Iran, the United States is becoming as unaccountable as Russia under Putin.
Documents reveal a web of financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they...
ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients.
Trump economy loses 92,000 jobs in February as economists warn labor market weakness is...
New Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows unemployment rising and hiring slowing across major industries as economists warn that policy uncertainty, tariffs, and economic shocks are weighing on the labor market.
Daniel Ellsberg speaks to us as the war on Iran continues
"We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth about ourselves: what we believe, what we reject, and what we want.”