Tag: military spending
Military spending’s out of control while slashing it could easily fund...
Moment of truth on military spending in the NY Times.
Trump’s border wall pulls funding from military base schools and daycares
The Pentagon released a statement on Wednesday saying it has authorized $3.6 billion in military construction funds to help fund 175 miles...
Will the U.S. launch yet another unnecessary, unjustifiable war in the...
The definition of insanity: doing the same things over again and expecting a different result. Want a really good example of this...
US and China push global military spending to record high
U.S. military expenditure along accounted for 36 percent of total global military spending, as much as the next eight biggest-spending countries combined.
Water Water Everywhere…
I just interviewed former World Bank staff member and geopolitical analyst Peter Koenig via telephone at his home in Geneva. Koenig had...
Saving America and the world by slashing US military spending
Instead, we need to spend this huge totally wasted share of our national wealth on our own long neglected social needs and on saving this country and world from an increasingly obvious looming environmental catastrophe.
Bernie Sanders: Democrats need to rein in our out-of-control military spending
Democrats must challenge unnecessary spending and interventions—beginning with the war in Yemen.
Progressive Briefing for Friday, August 3, 2018
7 hospitalized after pipeline explosion, Senate Democrats agree to major military spending, White House rolls back fuel economy standards, and more.
40 Democrats join Republicans and vote for $717 billion military spending...
The NDAA will hit Donald Trump's desk today and is "on track to become law before the start of the fiscal year for the first time since the fiscal 1997 bill."
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US diplomacy thwarts Palestinian UN membership amid claims of supporting statehood leaked cable shows
This diplomatic maneuvering seeks to avoid a U.S. veto, which would publicly align the country against Palestinian self-determination.
Supreme silence: High court decision curtails protest rights, stifling voices in the South
As the case now returns to lower courts for further proceedings, the national discourse on the limits of free speech and the right to protest continues to evolve.
Supreme Court questions use of obstruction law in Jan. 6 riot cases amid concerns...
This law is now at the center of a legal battle concerning its suitability for punishing those who stormed the Capitol during the certification of the 2020 election results.
Missouri Republican Attorney General Bailey sues Media Matters using consumer law to censor the...
An analysis of Mo. Attorney General Andrew Bailey's bogus allegations against Media Matters.
New report reveals millionaires’ tax rates slashed by half since 1950s, fueling wealth inequality
This stark reduction in tax rates for the wealthiest Americans coincides with an era of escalating income disparity and could be costing the federal government hundreds of billions in lost revenue annually.