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Mandy Smithberger

Cutting the Pentagon budget by $1 trillion? It can be done.
Military Industrial Complex

Cutting the Pentagon budget by $1 trillion? It can be done.

But whether our leaders continue to succumb to the power of the arms lobby is an open question.

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Military Industrial Complex

America's nearly $1.3 trillion national security budget isn't making us any safer

A shift in spending toward urgent priorities like addressing the possibility of future pandemics would be a far better investment in “national security.”

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Military Industrial Complex

Why the Pentagon budget never goes down

A new cold war atmosphere will allow the Pentagon to hoard resources that would otherwise go to our greater public health and safety needs.

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Military Industrial Complex

The Pentagon, first, last, and always

Make no mistake: the addiction to Pentagon spending is a bipartisan problem in Washington.

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Washington Politics

How the national security state has come to dominate a 'civilian' government

The immediate crises of the American republic should be clear enough right now: responding to the pandemic and restoring our civilian democracy.