Saturday, September 5, 2026

Tag: Pentagon budget

Defenseless

We want a serious change in our federal spending priorities away from destruction to actual human needs.

Progressives slam GOP’s ‘shameful’ attempt to add another $25 billion to...

"It's time to fix our broken budget priorities, and start putting human needs over Pentagon greed."

Stop calling the military budget a ‘defense’ budget

Let’s blow away the linguistic fog. The Pentagon budget is not a “defense” budget.

‘A huge outrage’: Senate panel approves $25 billion Pentagon budget increase

“Not so incidentally, the $25 billion spending increase approved by the Senate Armed Services Committee exactly matches the cost to scale up Covid-19 vaccine production to meet global demand.”

Why the Pentagon budget never goes down

Joe Biden's first 100 days were a Pentagon prize...

Senate proposes almost $700 billion for the Pentagon while millions of...

With the current unemployment rate reaching roughly 6.8 million and nearly 8 million Americans facing eviction, the government should be focusing on its citizens and not a defense budget.

National (in)security and the Pentagon budget

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

Just 1 percent of the US Pentagon budget could end world...

The war machine must go on and keep on growing or, more than likely they'll end up out of an occupation.

Bernie welcomes Sen. Schumer’s support to cut defense budget by 10...

"If there was ever a time to fundamentally change our national priorities, now is that time."

To shift funds from ‘endless wars’ to ‘human needs,’ Sanders unveils...

“It is time for us to truly focus on what we value as a society and to fundamentally transform our national priorities.”

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A Midwest meatpacking plant. Photo: Ammodramus, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Illinois presses Tyson for a buyer after 2,500 workers lost their jobs overnight

The plant's chief executive was paid 781 times the median worker's wage the same quarter its beef unit posted a loss.
Vehicle tailpipe emissions, the kind of pollution the disputed waivers regulate. Photo: DeFacto / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Federal judge blocks EPA attempt to strip California’s clean air waivers

The agency tried to hand the repeal to Congress instead of going through its own rulemaking process.
Madison Square Garden in New York. Photo: Rich Mitchell from New York, NY / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Interfaith leaders say they were ‘misled’ into attending event with far-right Hindu leader

Mohan Bhagwat’s appearance at Madison Square Garden was the latest in an influence operation conducted by the RSS and its allies in the U.S.
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Regulators Knew This Marijuana Product Was Harming People. It Stayed on Shelves for More...

Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Division can take months or even years to issue formal safety warnings about marijuana products even when it receives reports that the products are harming people’s health, The Denver Gazette and ProPublica found.
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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to freeze block on USPS mail ballot rule

North Carolina and Alabama are due to start mailing ballots this week, and the justices have set a deadline of their own.