Thursday, June 12, 2025

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$883.7 billion NDAA passed amid Pentagon audit failures and controversial policies

Congress approves $883.7 billion defense budget despite Pentagon’s audit failures and criticism over waste, cultural policies, and misplaced spending priorities.

Trump’s plans to weaponize the military against protesters and immigrants face...

Amid threats to deploy federal troops for mass deportations and protest suppression, advocates warn that recent legal shifts may grant unprecedented latitude to a second Trump administration.

Trump expected to appoint Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, drawing...

Known for his strident foreign policy positions, Rubio has consistently backed increased U.S. intervention abroad.

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.

Healthcare professionals demand US cease military aid to Israel, citing atrocities...

Ninety-nine American doctors and nurses recount the horrors they witnessed in Gaza, urging the Biden administration to stop arms sales and enforce a ceasefire.

U.S.-backed Israeli military kills American citizen in Lebanon amid growing evacuation...

The death of Dearborn resident Kamel Ahmad Jawad, an American citizen, in an Israeli airstrike highlights the U.S. administration’s failure to evacuate citizens from Lebanon and underscores the escalating humanitarian toll of U.S.-supported Israeli military actions.

From the arsenal of democracy to an arsenal of genocide

Such is the pernicious price of pursuing a vision that insists on global reach, global power, and global dominance.
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The New Yorker publishes 2005 Haditha, Iraq massacre photos Marines ‘didn’t...

The graphic images show dead Iraqi men, women and children, many of them shot in the head at close range.

The military-industrial complex is killing us all

Bombs injure. Bombs kill. Bombs destroy. Bombs also make people rich.

There is only one spaceship Earth

This is how to free the world of genocide and ecocide.

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Republicans can’t see the forest for the trees. Trump blocks their vision of the...

Yes, sometimes you can’t see the forest because of the trees. Republicans are so afraid of Trump that they have him on their minds all the time. Let’s call Trump the Trees.

Khanna unveils $12 trillion progressive plan to cut deficit and invest in working families

As Republicans push tax cuts for the wealthy, Rep. Ro Khanna releases a sweeping economic blueprint that targets Pentagon waste, corporate fraud, and billionaire loopholes to fund national priorities.

Trump threatens ‘heavy force’ against peaceful protesters as military parade marks birthday spectacle

As Trump prepares to mark his 79th birthday with a massive military display in Washington, his warnings against “any” protesters draw widespread alarm from rights groups and legal experts.

Timely lessons for keeping people safe in the streets 

As Trump looks to increase repression, a new training guide explains how peacekeepers reduce fear and build solidarity.

How the rich get richer: Evade taxation, grease trillion-dollar tax breaks, jack interest rates,...

In class and status-conscious, materialistic America (was it ever otherwise?), scoring net worth is easier than figuring out messy election results.