Here’s What We Could Have If We Slashed the Military Budget
The US military budget sucks up an enormous amount of resources without making the world more peaceful or democratic. Here are a few ways we could better spend that $717 billion.
The US military budget sucks up an enormous amount of resources without making the world more peaceful or democratic. Here are a few ways we could better spend that $717 billion.
Rather than returning the savings to the taxpayers, the plan means to plow those savings back into the Pentagon budget.
For years, it has been the only federal agency that can’t pass an audit.
The Pentagon’s Office of Economic Adjustment mostly missed its chance to wean communities off America’s dependence on defense economics.
This is the first real chance to stop the U.S. killing in at least one of many countries where the Pentagon’s murder machines are deployed.
There’s a huge opportunity cost to America’s enormous military budget.
Facing financial ruin and the ruins of South Texas, some hawks want to throw more money at the military. That’s ludicrous.
Quite the contrary: the United States, Dower argues, may have refined its techniques, but it has done nothing to minimize the brutality.
If Trump is a Manchurian candidate, on whose behalf is he working?
Civilians in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen won’t survive to cheer the removal of ISIS if they’re killed by the same bombs, IPS Middle East expert Phyllis Bennis told Rising Up with Sonali.
The president wants to put the U.S. on a permanent war footing to sustain his unpopular presidency.
The president says he’ll protect our interests against the boondoggle weapons makers. Don’t believe him.
If Congress gets out of the way.
Already Trump is super-charging U.S. militarism, gutting diplomacy, and punishing the victims of wars Washington started.
The brass asked for a report on eliminating waste. When investigators found some, the military buried it.