Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Tag: Pentagon

The Pentagon can’t account for $21 trillion (that’s not a typo)

It seems vaguely upsetting, but you forget about it 15 seconds later because … what else is there to do?

Why can’t the world’s best military win its wars?

Americans need to rethink war and look honestly at ourselves and our friends.

US-led endless war and overseas attacks funded by tax payers’ money

"It's devastating to know who paid for it: we did."

Could the Cold War return with a vengeance?

The Pentagon plans for a perpetual three-front “Long War” against China and Russia.

How the Pentagon devours the budget

While the Trump administration is preparing to launch full-scale assaults on food stamps, Medicaid, and Medicare, it’s war on everything except the U.S. military.

The light at the end of the corner

Bad as things are right now, experience tells us – or at least our military commanders swear to it – that they’ll get better sooner or later.

The Pentagon’s plan for never-ending war

We desperately need a new real security strategy, and a revolt against endless war to give it traction.

The 1967 mobilization against the war in Vietnam: Confrontation at the...

Hopefully we can all learn something useful for today by looking back at this crucial event through the eyes of someone whose worldview was shaped by his participation in it.

‘Enemy combatants’ again?

Will Washington never learn?

The scandal of Pentagon spending

Your tax dollars support troops of defense contractor CEOs.

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The most valuable lesson Democrats could actually learn from Biden

Democrats can shake off old ways of thinking by standing on their visions for the future even in conservative areas by passing the baton to the next generation to ensure the work of creating a better society for everyone can continue.

Exposure to synthetic chemicals in food poses health impacts, new study reports

Their conclusion: a need to transition to a safer, more sustainable food system.

New Jersey’s movement against ICE detention is not going away

These actions, organized by a seasoned coalition of pro-immigrant rights groups in the state, have now been going for over a month.

Food giants’ climate plans lack credibility, new report finds

The annual report, which analyzed the climate strategies of five of the world’s top 10 food and agriculture corporations, is the latest in a slew of reports that show how the largest food companies are failing to tackle their environmental impacts.