Arsenal of Autocracy? The Major Weapons Makers Cash in Worldwide, Not Just Ukraine
Our largest weapons-making corporations are on a run for our money that on a planet that hardly needed one more war.
Washington Should Think Twice Before Launching a New Cold War
Here we are in what might indeed be Cold War II, playing out the Ukrainian version of Afghanistan with a weaker Russian military, a visibly more disturbed leader, Washington again…
Reining In the Pentagon
By Mandy Smithberger and William Hartung / TomDispatch Even as Congress moves to increase the Pentagon budget well beyond the astronomical levels proposed by the Biden administration, a new report…
How Corporations Won the War on Terror
Turns out failed wars and thousands of lives lost are good for (some) business.
America’s $1.3 Trillion National Security Budget Isn’t Making Us Safer
Despite the fact that developments of the past year and a half have underscored that the greatest threats to American lives are anything but military in nature, the Biden administration…
America Dominant Again (in Arms Sales)
Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and others are again profiting at the expense of so many of the rest of us.
The National Security State Has Militarized Our Democracy
A particular irony of this century has been that the less effective the U.S. military has been abroad, the more it’s come to be treasured here at home. In the…
Will the Biden Administration Dare Cut Military Spending?
This year’s presidential election was decided primarily by voter concerns about Covid-19 and the economy, not by voters crying out for a continuation of America’s endless wars or demanding yet…
The Art of the Weapons Deal in the Age of Trump
The president has tried to capitalize on arms sales to the Middle East to consolidate his political position at home throughout his tenure.