The $717 Billion Defense Bill That Just Breezed Through the Senate Should Be a National Scandal
Democrats and Republicans rubber-stamped a severely bloated war budget.
Democrats and Republicans rubber-stamped a severely bloated war budget.
Ideas like Medicare for All are written off as fantasy thinking by the same people who support virtually unlimited military spending.
If Trump’s concern is spreading the burden of security, why does he want the U.S. to ramp up its military spending?
Soldiers, civilians, and the 140 million Americans who are poor or low-income pay the price for our never-ending wars.
This year, average taxpayers paid twice as much to corporate military contractors than to caring for all veterans combined.
Surprise! Corporations and billionaires are paying way less in taxes, with some profitable corporations paying nothing at all.
For years, it has been the only federal agency that can’t pass an audit.
Donald Trump has declared war on human rights — at home and abroad.
Our analysis found that the average taxpayer put in 29 working days in 2017 to pay Pentagon contractors.
The Pentagon’s Office of Economic Adjustment mostly missed its chance to wean communities off America’s dependence on defense economics.
There’s a huge opportunity cost to America’s enormous military budget.
Military spending will reach $700 billion under the deal to reopen the government, despite reports of hundreds of billions in Pentagon waste.
There’s a likely ending to all this military bluster and buildup, and it’s one that goes boom.
Backing down from nuclear war would make us a lot safer than piling more money into the Pentagon.
The anti-war movement needs money, and the Koch brothers have it. But it comes with strings attached.