Thursday, September 10, 2026

Tag: weapons

In historic vote, Senate comes together to end military support of...

"I hope … we send a loud and powerful message by passing this resolution. That we’re going to bring peace to that country and that the United States Congress is going to reassert its constitutional authority to be the body that makes war not the president."

How tear gas became a favorite weapon of US border patrol,...

Border authorities’ use of tear gas has spiked under the Trump administration, with the agency’s own data revealing it has deployed tear gas over two dozen times this year alone.

Teenagers in space

Star Wars, G.I. Joe, Rambo, Red Dawn, and how a tale of American triumphalism was returned to the child’s world.

In Yemen and beyond, US arms manufacturers are abetting crimes against...

Our leading weapons dealers have developed a business model that feeds on war, terrorism, chaos, political instability, and human rights violations.

Trump’s Space Force

“I have not yet heard a compelling case why we need a separate force.”

Kings Bay Plowshares: Meet two of the seven activists who secretly...

Their goal was to symbolically disarm the nuclear weapons at the base, which is home to at least six nuclear ballistic missile submarines.

Who is making a killing on killing?

As the saying goes, follow the money to find out who profits from all this death and devastation.

Gunning down the Easter Bunny

The weaponization of everyday life.

Weapons for anyone

Has Donald Trump become this country’s assassin-in-chief with impressive alacrity?

F-35 jet program budget exceeds $406 billion, yet universal healthcare too...

Members of Congress say the U.S. is "too broke" to increase spending on programs that intend to improve education and healthcare, but $27 billion more could go to F-35 jet program.

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A private jet on the tarmac. Photo: Bidgee/CC BY-SA 3.0 au

Treasury refuses to close private jet tax loophole senators call a giveaway to billionaires

The formula values a flight from New York to Washington at $236, against a fair market cost of up to $5,112
An aerial view of Boulder City and Lake Mead, Nevada. Photo: Doc Searls/CC BY 2.0

Federal panel halts first AI data center approved on US public land

The board found regulators treated an 88.5-acre data center as barely different from the solar farm it was supposed to replace.
The California State Capitol in Sacramento, where SEIU Local 1000 has accused Governor Newsom's administration of bad-faith bargaining. Photo: Steven Pavlov, via Wikimedia Commons

California’s largest state worker union opens strike vote against Newsom administration

More than 100,000 workers will decide by October 7 after the state rejected most of the union's contract proposals.
Encore Boston Harbor casino in Everett, Massachusetts. Photo: Parkerjh / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Casino workers strike at Encore Boston Harbor after contract talks stall

More than 1,300 Teamsters and UNITE HERE members walked out after voting 97 percent to authorize the strike
The Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Photo: U.S. Navy

25 Years of War Was the Wrong Response to 9/11

Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies tally the trillions spent and the millions killed in the quarter century of war that followed September 11.