Have you ever thought about just how strange this country’s version of normal truly is? Let me make my point with a single, hardly noticed Washington Post news story that’s been on my mind for a while. It represents the sort of reporting that, in our world, zips by with next to no reaction, despite the true weirdness buried in it.
However you describe the Pentagon budget, it’s a lot of money.
In the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, we need to make sure that every penny of our tax dollars is spent wisely.
Congress hasn’t lost its taste for military pork despite all that chatter about cutting the deficit.
Activists and lawmakers are adopting new tactics to rein in spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Some countries are starting to think that it’s time to move on from the USA.
Afghanistan, the racial wealth gap, and a student sit-in.
South Korea has continuously increased its military spending since 2000 at a rate higher than conventional explanations would expect. Its spending grew 200 percent for the past ten years, higher than would be warranted by the growth of its economy or government budget over the same period.
Non-security discretionary programs are being squeezed by our nation’s rising military spending.
Isn’t it time to call what Congress will soon vote on by its right name: war escalation funding?
Let’s use the BP oil disaster as the impetus we need to really and truly become oil-free by 2030.
The recent military budget increases in East Asia are motivated by various factors — flash point-driven, hedging strategy-driven, or governance-driven — but they do necessarily trigger an arms race in the region.
In recent times, the Japanese business community has also demanded an amendment to Article 9 of the constitution for the promotion of military-civil integrated space development and an end to the ban on arms exports.
How much of an impact has North Korea’s nuclear program had on the military spending of other major Northeast Asian states?
In the early 1990s, in the wake of the Soviet Union’s collapse, the world was anticipating a “peace dividend” from the end of the cold war. In one part of the world, however, military spending was not slowing down.