Thursday, February 6, 2025

Tag: National security

New bill expands warrantless spying amid widespread criticism

The U.S. Senate has approved a significant expansion of government surveillance powers, raising alarms over potential violations of civil liberties.

Daring to ‘look a sacred cow in the teeth’

Making major cuts to military spending would increase U.S. national security.

Social Security versus national security

Whose entitlement really makes us safer?

America the usual

The longer we have to wait, the actual threats to national security can and will destroy this country.

National (in)security and the Pentagon budget

A post-coronavirus economy can no longer afford to put the Pentagon first.

Sanders files amendments to force Pentagon to pass clean audit, require...

“National security,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders, “means doing everything we can to improve the lives of our people, many of whom have been abandoned by our government decade after decade.”

Hypersonic weapons and national (in)security

Hypersonic weapons close in on their targets at a minimum speed of Mach 5, five times the speed of sound or 3,836.4...

The US raises red flags on Russia’s plutonium experiments – while...

The secrecy surrounding this work has long raised suspicions – among many nations – that a global nuclear test ban treaty is being violated.

How ICE and other DHS agencies mine social media in the...

Through its vast and deeply flawed social media monitoring, the Department of Homeland Security jeopardizes the rights of travelers, immigrants, refugees, and many others.

Boondoggle, Inc.

Making sense of the $1.25 trillion national security state budget.

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The mass deportation handoff, Biden to Trump

Its essential assumption: that Biden adored open borders, while Trump, the demagogue, is on his way to executing a profitable clampdown on them.

Trump administration orders USDA and Forest Service to remove climate change references, suppressing critical...

The systematic erasure of climate change information from government websites threatens scientific transparency, public safety, and environmental policy.

Tesla paid zero federal income tax in 2024 while GOP pushes more corporate tax...

Musk’s trillion-dollar company paid nothing in federal taxes while working Americans foot the bill.

MAGA the destroyer in full demolition mode, misreading ‘success’ not as bridges built but...

Trump is now like the lone gunslinger, thinking his aim perfect enough to win by emptying six-guns in the first two minutes.
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Blueprint for ethnic cleansing: Trump proposes US take over Gaza & forcibly remove all...

Trump went even further and said the United States should “own” Gaza and develop it into a seaside tourist destination.