
We Need to Cut the Military Budget, But Don’t Trust the Far Right to Do It
There’s an urgent need to stop funding wars and human rights abuses abroad and to free up funding for human needs at home. The Freedom Caucus can’t be counted on for either.
There’s an urgent need to stop funding wars and human rights abuses abroad and to free up funding for human needs at home. The Freedom Caucus can’t be counted on for either.
We could fund programs that meet real human needs for basics like housing, food, education, and child care.
Sorry, but we have too many other needs in this country to spend $858 billion on a department that can’t even pass an audit.
Other major government agencies have long since passed audits. But the Pentagon is so big and disjointed, no one knows where its money goes.
How Washington’s climate spending compares to its investments in the military.
The military industrial complex is costly and inefficient. It’s time to cut the defense budget and end its wasteful practices.
Lockheed Martin’s CEO took home $20 million while enlisted soldiers got just $20,000. Why? Because corporations have hijacked the military.
Democrats and Republicans rubber-stamped a severely bloated war budget.
The president says he’ll protect our interests against the boondoggle weapons makers. Don’t believe him.
Sanders would find plenty to get rid of in America’s bloated defense budget.
The military-industrial complex is driving America to the poorhouse.
As President Obama asks Republicans to cut “sacred cows” from the budget and make security budget cuts, report discusses ways to shift our security resources.
Before the Bush administration kicks things off with its 2007 budget request in early February, it seems bent on proving that, in the fantasy department, it can go head-to-head with Hollywood.