Tag: military spending
Senate passes $10 billion in Israeli military aid with only 3...
The decision was part of a broader legislative package that also includes military support for Ukraine and Taiwan, with the bill passing by a substantial bipartisan majority of 70-29 votes.
Surging arms trade amid global tensions: The booming business of war
Exploring the dramatic rise in global arms orders and the consequential ethical and economic impacts, amidst escalating geopolitical tensions.
House votes for Israel aid linked to controversial IRS and tax...
In a contentious decision, the House approves $14 billion in aid to Israel, offset by cuts to the IRS budget, despite predictions of increased deficit and a veto from President Biden.
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.”
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.