Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Tag: Pentagon

The US killer drone program stays afloat on the back of...

A wrongly targeted Afghan aid worker and his family are among the latest casualties.

Biden shows true colors proposing bigger war department budget than Trump

It's time to SLASH Pentagon spending not increase it!

Making sense of a viral military

A military spouse’s perspective on the Pentagon’s flawed response to the pandemic.

Back to the future at the Pentagon

Why 2021 looks so much like 1981 — and why that should scare us...

Rewarding failure

Why Pentagon weapons programs rarely get canceled despite major problems...

The Pentagon, first, last, and always

Focusing on the wrong threats, including a New Cold War with China, is the last thing we can afford now.

Has Trump already been removed as commander in chief?

I Pence calling the shots when it comes to the Pentagon?

Shrinking the Pentagon

Will the Biden administration dare cut military spending?

Hey Joe, where you going with that Pentagon in your hands?

If past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior, there are ample reasons for apprehension about the top of the military and foreign-policy team that Biden has begun to install for his presidency.

National (in)security and the Pentagon budget

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

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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.