Tag: war
Senate kills amendment to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan
“The pandemic clearly shows that expensive endless wars that cost $6 trillion from taxpayers make Americans less safe as they take funds from critical needs like healthcare.”
Bernie: Cut Pentagon by 10% to invest in education, health care,...
“And when we talk about real change it is incredible to me the degree to which Congress continues to ignore our bloated $740 billion defense budget—which has gone up by over $100 billion since Trump has been in office.”
The war zone is America
Yet, as the United States comes ever more to resemble a war zone in a pandemic moment, in a country run by a president with autocratic inclinations, amid a surge of protest over racism, the home front could indeed become a war front.
A different war: For my father on Father’s Day
The shabbier and more senseless the war...the more hollow its objectives and justifications...the more one-sided our advantage...the more distorted the news from the front...the more random the casualties on all sides.
New bill introduced to hold US military accountable to civilian casualties
“Maximizing transparency will prevent further loss of life.”
The new Cold War with China
No one can say at what point you or any of us will begin to feel the direct effects of this new Cold War, only that, as tensions and hostile acts heighten, the consequences will prove harsh indeed.
Who are the secret puppet-masters behind Trump’s war on Iran?
A shadowy group stoking U.S. hostility with Iran and the evidence that it is funded by Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Space Force’s blabbermouth-in-chief
The odds are our commander-in-chief has just given a case of the jitters to the entire defensive—and offensive—apparatus of the nuclear world.
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Future US presidents must not be allowed to manage any type of pandemic
We can’t keep doing things “the old way’, especially when they don’t work. It’s time to make this critically important change.
The USPS is the only organization that was forced to pre-pay for health benefits...
“The Postal Service's $15 billion debt is a direct result of the mandate.”
Senate kills amendment to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan
“The pandemic clearly shows that expensive endless wars that cost $6 trillion from taxpayers make Americans less safe as they take funds from critical needs like healthcare.”
House passes massive infrastructure bill, Senate Majority Leader calls it ‘nonsense’
The $1.5 trillion package includes investing in clean energy, public lands, and transit systems and focused less on building new roads.
Medicare for All over militarism
Although it doesn’t seem to interest most American voters, militarism is now as much of a domestic as it is a foreign policy issue.