The Pentagon’s Secret Budget
David Vine, Counter Punch. News reports that next year’s U.S. military budget will top out at $1.5 trillion if President Donald Trump gets his way are misleading at best. The…
25 Years After 9/11, How Do We Build A Movement To Stop Endless Wars?
Mark Engler, Waging Nonviolence. Historian Jeremy Varon discusses what we can learn from the movement that turned the tide against the Iraq War. As Trump wages an unpopular war with…
Next Governor Has The Power And Duty To Stop The F-35 Training
James Marc Leas, Cancel the F-35. On January 7, 2027, Vermont’s next governor can end a grave injustice. The next governor possesses the constitutional authority to order an immediate halt…
Paper Tiger: the Failure of America’s Trillion Dollar War Machine
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the United States spent $21 trillion on its military between 2001 and 2024 (in…
How Lockheed Martin, Raytheon & BAE Systems Are Propagandizing Children To Support War Through STEM
Alan Macleod Mint Press News Raytheon sponsors the Girl Scouts of America. BAE Systems is reading your toddlers their favorite fairytale stories. And Lockheed Martin funds children’s math and STEM…
Military Families Are Going Hungry — and the Numbers Don’t Yet Reflect the War
The number of families struggling with food insecurity nearly tripled in last two years, survey finds. Marcus Baram for Capital and Main Military families are experiencing a sharp rise in…
While Pentagon Spends Billions on War, Military Families Say They’re Getting Short-Changed
Marcus Baram for Capital & Main On April 21, nearly two months into the Iran war, the Pentagon unveiled a $1.5 trillion budget request that promised to bolster services for…
Reining In The Pentagon
Can the Military-Industrial Beast Be Tamed? William D. Hartung Right at this moment, we are witnessing an unprecedented shift of resources from domestic investments in the United States to the…
Poll Finds Just 4 Percent of Democrats Support Increasing Military Aid to Israel
By Sharon Zhang This article was originally published by Truthout Separate polling found this week that Congress’s disapproval ratings have tied their all-time high of 86 percent. New polling has…
Trump’s $1.5 Trillion Pentagon Budget Will Make US Weaker
William Hartung for Common Dreams It has been reported that the Pentagon on Friday will release a proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2027 of almost $1.5 trillion, with approximately $1.15…
Trump’s Budget: A Moral Obscenity Wrapped in Patriotism
ScheerPost Staff In a move that is both reckless and morally indefensible, the Trump administration unveiled a fiscal year 2027 budget proposal this past Friday that dramatically increases military spending…
‘Not Another Penny for Another Endless War,’ Ilhan Omar Says as Trump Seeks $200 Billion
Jessica Corbett Common Dreams As US President Donald Trump on Thursday confirmed reporting that he’s seeking $200 billion more from Congress to continue waging his unpopular war of choice on…
Pete Hegesth the Latest Grifter
Joshua Scheer The $93 Billion Pentagon Shopping Spree Washington is once again demonstrating one of its oldest and most reliable traditions: screaming about government waste while spending taxpayer money like…
A Clique of Unhinged Techno-Optimists Is Putting Humanity at Risk
By Janet Abou-Elias and William D. Hartung for Tomdispatch.com – “I love the idea of getting a drone and having light fentanyl-laced urine spraying on analysts that tried to screw…
‘The Military-Industrial Complex Is Winning’: While Bombing Iran, Trump Says Weapons Contractors to Boost Production
Jessica Corbett for Common Dreams After meeting with several chief executives at the White House on Friday—while also bombing Iran with Israel and threatening Cuba—US President Donald Trump said that…