William Boardman | What War Are We Buying With Another $58 Billion for the Military?
The pace of drone strikes by the US on suspected terrorists has increased more than fourfold since Trump took office.
Michael Moore | Do These 10 Things, and Trump Will Be Toast
10-POINT ACTION PLAN TO STOP TRUMP
Michael Moore | Do These 10 Things, and Trump Will Be Toast
10-POINT ACTION PLAN TO STOP TRUMP
Joe Scarry |IT’S A LOCK: Why the US Can’t Break Its Addiction to War
But the question of how to push back against the problem has seemed gargantuan. Four hundred and thirty-five Congressional districts: how to begin?
Polly Mann | The Saudi Arabia Coalition at War in Yemen: Who Are the Terrorists?
Over a dozen U.S. lawmakers wrote to President Barack Obama expressing “dismay” over the Saudi-led war in Yemen, backed not just by U.S. arms but also U.S. military advisors.
Despite What Media Says, TPP Isn’t About Free Trade — It’s About Protecting Corporate Profits
So the most consequential parts of the deal would actually undermine the free flow of goods and services by expanding some protectionist, anti-competitive policies sought by global corporations.
Revival Of US Cold War-Era Committee To Echo McCarthy Fear Tactics
Instead of hunting legitimate terror and espionage threats, the group was much more likely to focus its efforts on trying to intimidate, slander and discredit law-abiding organizations that promote cooperation and dialogue between Washington and Moscow...
VICE Exclusive: Snowden Tried to Tell NSA About Surveillance Concerns, Documents Reveal
Before he leaked the documents, Snowden said, he had repeatedly attempted to raise his concerns inside the NSA about its surveillance of US citizens — and the agency had done nothing.
Polly Mann: The Pentagon’s Foreign Aid
Counter-terrorism efforts in Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen suggest that U.S. military assistance programs have created substantial blowback by exacerbating the central forces fueling insurgency and violence, thereby strengthening the enemies they are intended to combat.
Wm. D. Hartung: How Not to Audit the Pentagon
Why has waste at the Pentagon been so hard to rein in? The answer is, in a sense, not complicated: the military-industrial complex profits from waste. Closer scrutiny of waste could mean not just cheaper spare parts, but serious questions about whether cash cows like the F-35 are needed at all. An accurate head count of the hundreds of thousands of private contractors employed by the Pentagon would reveal that a large proportion of them are doing work that is either duplicative or unnecessary.
Polly Mann: Where Will All the Money Go in 2016?
The United States could put an end to poverty in this country by a substantial reduction in its enormous military budget. To do this would require a well-funded campaign, and how could the peace movement begin to amass funds sufficient to challenge those provided lobbyists by the military-industrial complex? Lobbyists, in turn, use whatever means are legal (usually, that is) to influence the lawmakers to enact legislation benefiting the arms makers.
Nuclear Waste Peddlers Still Pushing Yucca Mt. Dump
LaForge: DOE scientists have admitted that waste canisters will corrode away long before the radiation hazards do so. Much of the 70,000 tons of waste slated for a dump “remains radioactive for millions of years” (New York Times, Jan. 17, 1989) and “would be hazardous for millions of years” (NYT, Feb.12, 1989).