Stop Wasting Money on the Pentagon
Military leaders literally don’t know what they’re doing with our money, but they want more. People on the left and right have had enough.
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.
Plan to Cut Pentagon Waste Eliminates an Office Designed to Do Just That
Rather than returning the savings to the taxpayers, the plan means to plow those savings back into the Pentagon budget.
The Pentagon Can’t Keep Track of the Billions it Already Gets
For years, it has been the only federal agency that can’t pass an audit.
The Little Agency That Could Have Tamed the Military-Industrial Complex
The Pentagon’s Office of Economic Adjustment mostly missed its chance to wean communities off America’s dependence on defense economics.
This Opportunity to End the US-Backed Carnage in Yemen Must Be Seized
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.
VIDEO: Trump’s Proposed Military Budget Could Send 1 Million Kids to College — for Free
There’s a huge opportunity cost to America’s enormous military budget.
Climate Change is a Bigger Threat Than Any Military — Our Budget Should Reflect That
Facing financial ruin and the ruins of South Texas, some hawks want to throw more money at the military. That’s ludicrous.
Is America’s Violent Century Coming to an End?
Quite the contrary: the United States, Dower argues, may have refined its techniques, but it has done nothing to minimize the brutality.
Russia’s Not the Country Benefitting Most from Trump
If Trump is a Manchurian candidate, on whose behalf is he working?
Escalating Casualties in Mosul Cannot Be Blamed on the Fog of War
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.
Why Spend $54 Billion More on the Pentagon? To Start a War, Obviously.
The president wants to put the U.S. on a permanent war footing to sustain his unpopular presidency.
Trump’s Phony Populism on Military Spending
The president says he’ll protect our interests against the boondoggle weapons makers. Don’t believe him.
This Could Be the Year to Close America’s Surplus Military Bases
If Congress gets out of the way.
Trump Is Carpet-Bombing U.S. Foreign Policy
Already Trump is super-charging U.S. militarism, gutting diplomacy, and punishing the victims of wars Washington started.