Tag: Pentagon

House advances $893 billion defense policy as culture war riders and audit penalties collide with pay raises, troop increases, and a looming Senate clash.

Leaked documents show Trump administration proposal to create a permanent National Guard “quick reaction force” to quell domestic unrest, raising concerns over legality, militarization, and civil liberties.

Does the Trump team's purge of Pentagon photos raise sinister echoes from the past?

In short, as of now, in the battle between welfare and warfare, the militarists are carrying the day.

Reports reveal trump’s private approval of attack plans as U.S. forces deploy across Europe and Middle East amid rising pressure from Israeli and GOP war hawks.

Trump’s budget bill would fund a massive expansion of federal immigration enforcement and turn it into a threat to the civil rights of everyone.

The Trump administration’s assault on human rights comes against the background of years of policy decisions in Washington that too often cast aside such concerns in favor of supposedly more important “strategic” interests.

As the Trump administration pushes for a $1 trillion military budget, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has imposed unprecedented restrictions on journalists at the Pentagon, raising alarm over transparency, accountability, and the future of press freedom.

Dismantling the government while pumping up the Pentagon.

William Hartung blasts the promised budget as “completely unnecessary” and says that “almost the only beneficiaries are going to be the weapons manufacturers.”