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Ben Freeman

THAAD Iran
Military Industrial Complex

Weapons makers cash in on Trump's Iran war

Big Pentagon contractors like Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman saw billions added to their market value

Donald Trump Davos 2026
QiOSK

Trump: We got a $1.5 trillion military budget. He’s (kinda) right.

His boast to Davos today wasn't off the mark if he combines these overflowing pots of national security funding

Trump $1.5 trillion
Military Industrial Complex

The reality of Trump’s cartoonish $1.5 trillion DOD budget proposal

This dramatic escalation in military spending is a recipe for more waste, fraud, and abuse

After bombing, time to demystify the 'Qatar lobby'
Middle East

After bombing, time to demystify the 'Qatar lobby'

As the monarchy in Doha found out Tuesday, hundreds of millions of dollars in influence-building cannot compete with the hold Israel has on the US