Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Tag: Pentagon

New Congressional report issued by Pentagon warns against climate change, calls...

"The effects of a changing climate are a national security issue with potential impacts to Department of Defense (DoD or the Department) missions, operational plans, and installations."

Pentagon: Climate change is real and a ‘national security issue’

"The half-baked DOD report on #climatechange released this week is inadequate and demonstrates a continued unwillingness to seriously recognize and address the threat that climate change poses to our national security."

Bases, bases, everywhere…

“Undocumented bases are immune to oversight by the public and often even Congress.”

‘What kind of maniacs are running this country?:’ Pentagon rings in...

"Maybe a little more 'Happy New Year!' and a little less 'Watch... our powerful bombs of mass destruction.'"

Keep walking, nothing important to see here

“Shanahan who?”

‘An insult to the American people’: Outrage after Pentagon fails first-ever...

Decrying "unchecked waste, fraud, and abuse," Rep. Barbara Lee said, "This is exactly why we must #AuditThePentagon."

Making America’s wars great again

The Pentagon portrays a powerful need to think of ourselves as a righteous, just, and successful country that fights only righteous, just, and successful wars.

Pentagon socialism

Militarizing the economy in the name of defense.

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The General James M. Gavin coal-fired power plant in Cheshire, Ohio, one of the largest in the country. Photo: Analogue Kid / CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

EPA says repealing power plant emissions rules will save billions – but its estimate...

Keeping aging coal plants open, building new gas plants and choices about pollution controls affect electricity bills. Pollution adds health costs and climate damage that may not appear on those bills.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage at Landing Zone 1. Photo: SpaceX (CC0)

The first trillionaire – no big deal?

Multi-billionaires are bad enough; a trillionaire is a magnitude worse
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant, which serves Jackson, Mississippi. Photo: Sabrina Dalton, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Appeals court rules the constitution guarantees no right to clean water

A dissenting judge compared the Jackson, Mississippi water crisis to Flint's
A polling place on election day. Photo: Tony Webster

NAACP sues Trump administration over armed agents at the polls

The suit cites a fatal Minneapolis shooting by federal agents as evidence of the fear such deployments can create.
A satellite view of Tehran, Iran. Photo: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Trump says he is in ‘deciding mode’ on destroying Iran

The Pentagon's own death count is undercounting US troops killed in the seven-month war, the Washington Post has reported.