Congress Poised to Cede More Foreign Weapons Oversight. Why?
New bill would speed up the delivery of deadly arms while scaling back the ability of elected representatives to monitor the implications.
The Movie & the Moment to Stop Nuclear Rearmament
Oppenheimer should be required viewing by all those in Washington who are bent on spending $1.7 trillion over the next decades to build new nuclear weapons to kill us all,…
From Military to Policing, Say No to a Federal Budget That Prioritizes Violence
Biden’s budget would increase sky-high military spending and expand the police — and Republican proposals are worse.
Pentagon Leaders Admit Defense Funding “Wish Lists” Are a Bad Practice
Defense officials have been required to submit a budgetary “wish list” every year since 2017.
What Price Is ‘Defense?’: America’s Costly, Dysfunctional Approach to Security Is Making Us Ever Less Safe
A look at the madness of funding the Pentagon, going down the military drain.
Democrats Are Making a Devil’s Bargain on Pentagon Funding. It’s Not Paying Off.
Progressives can’t win unless Pentagon spending is put on the chopping block.By Lindsay Koshgarian
Congress Just Passed $858 Billion Military Budget, But GOP Is Blocking $12 Billion to Fight Child Poverty
"This isn't using our taxpayer dollars wisely," said one analyst. "It's robbing programs that we need."
Pentagon Admits They Can’t Account for Half Their Assets
“The Defense Department has failed its fifth-ever audit, unable to account for more than half of its assets..."
Chris Hedges and Dennis Kucinich on How the War Machine Took Over the Democratic Party
By Chris Hedges / The Real News Network From The Real News Network: There was once a wing of the Democratic Party that stood up to the war industry. J.…
Neo-Cons: Genesis to Ascendency
The adherents of the neo-conservative movement now dominate positions of rank within the Executive branch, and exercise intellectual hegemony among members of the foreign policy community more generally.
US China Policy: A Perilous Arms Race Instead of Waging Critical Cooperation
By Ralph Nader Did the Biden officials know what they were doing when they announced a broad expansion of export controls on China? China is the world’s second-largest economy, which…
America’s $1.4 Trillion ‘National Security’ Budget Makes Us Ever Less Safe
By William D. Hartung / TomDispatch William Hartung, Call It the National (In)security Budget Yes, Afghanistan went down the drain and Washington’s global war on terror ended (more or less)…
Lee, Pocan File Amendment to Slash $100 Billion From US Military Budget
"For far too long, this country has put profits ahead of its people," said Rep. Barbara Lee. "Nowhere is that more apparent than in our Pentagon topline budget."
Ukraine Is the Latest Neocon Disaster
If Europe has any insight, it will separate itself from these U.S. foreign policy debacles, writes Jeffrey D. Sachs.
Katrina vanden Huevel: The Pentagon Gets More Money and Americans Pay the Price
What’s all this new defense spending for?