By Moon of Alabama On July 2 Lysichansk came under Russian control: This comes only a week after the cauldron around Lysichansk began to close. Until a few hours ago…
What’s all this new defense spending for?
The American foreign policy establishment, chasing decades of failures, appears to be seriously considering the unthinkable in Ukraine.
By Brett Wilkins / Common Dreams Sharply contrasting with the $778 billion in new military spending authorized Monday by President Joe Biden, the U.S. Agency for International Development reportedly can’t…
By Jake Johnson / Common Dreams In bipartisan fashion, the U.S. House of Representatives late Tuesday passed a sprawling military policy bill that contains nearly twice as much funding on…
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…
The ubiquitous use of phrases like “defense budget” and “defense spending” reinforces the false notion that equates the USA’s humongous military operations with defense.
A new analysis shows that a "large portion" of Pentagon contracts in recent years have gone to just five companies: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman.
Is the Social Security system finally in trouble? It could be, thanks to the third-rail political issue of military spending.
This country’s 'forever wars' have become a kind of global pandemic all their own and, like a cytokine storm, are strangling the vital organs of democracy.
A jubilee moment in pandemic America? The poetry of a movement to change this country.
