House military spending vote signals epic failure of leadership
Lawmakers in the thrall of the defense lobby show their cards in proposed budget increases. This one’s a doozy.
Lawmakers in the thrall of the defense lobby show their cards in proposed budget increases. This one’s a doozy.
Now begins Pentagon budget season and with it, a long wish list and efforts to justify massive increases.
Progressives have to shed politically-charged projects and identify budget issues and personalities with bipartisan appeal.
His proposal ‘would make Kyiv the largest yearly recipient of U.S. military aid of at least the past two decades.’
Though Russia’s war on Ukraine is a tragedy for the world, one group is already benefiting from it: U.S. arms contractors.
A DoD report says there are 90 percent fewer prime defense contractors today. Senator Warren says this is why we’re getting rooked.
DC establishmentarian says we’ve allowed our military to atrophy, and need more than $1 trillion a year to restore its ‘reach and its punch.’
Defense contractors and program advocates have unusual control over what the public sees, leading to bad oversight, or worse.
Applying phony solutions to real problems — it seems the armed forces, in league with Congress, has this down.
America’s military-industrial complex builds the fanciest, most expensive weaponry known to humanity but the end products are often ineffective and unsound.
Former White House official: if they’re expecting reductions, the president’s base is in for a ‘cycle of disappointment’
The immediate crises of the American republic should be clear enough right now: responding to the pandemic and restoring our civilian democracy.