How to Stop the War Against Iran
Tell Your Member of Congress, House and Senate, to “Vote NO $$$$$ for War!” Dennis Kucinich Substack Up to 15,000 of the 50,000 American troops in the Middle East region…
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…
‘Not One Damn Penny’: Pentagon Expected to Ask Congress for Billions to Fund Iran War
By Jake Johnson for Common Dreams The Pentagon is reportedly planning to ask Congress to approve a supplemental funding package of around $50 billion to help finance the Trump administration’s…
Pentagon Can’t Even Figure Out How to Spend the Extra $500 Billion More Trumpfare
Posted by Joshua Scheer I was about to share this Common Dreams piece on the astounding fact that the Pentagon doesn’t even know what to do with the extra money…
The Superorganism of War: Peter Byrne on AI, Empire, and the Death Economy
By Joshua Scheer I begin with an important quote, as calls for a general strike on January 30 emerge from this interview. One key takeaway comes from guest Peter Byrne,…
The ‘Peace President’ Who Bombed 10 Countries and Wants $1.5 Trillion for War
Posted by Joshua Scheer Donald Trump keeps insisting he’s a “peace president.” The record shows something closer to a global arsonist with better PR. In just one year of his…
Necropolitics and Healthcare: The High Cost of Life in America
Melissa’s original article, which inspired this podcast, is printed in full below as well. Happy Thanksgiving. In this eye-opening episode, host Joshua Scheer dives deep into the heart-wrenching realities of…
‘The Greatest Fighting Force in Human History’ – The Perpetual Wars You Aren’t Supposed to Notice
By William J. Astore / TomDispatch.com In his message to the troops prior to the July 4th weekend, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin offered high praise indeed. “We have the…
What It Means for Hunger to Burn Through the Pentagon’s Ranks
Co-creator of the Costs of War Project and military spouse Andrea Mazzarino describes in all-too-devastating detail that a staggeringly over-funded military-industrial complex is, to use Eisenhower’s phrasing, indeed stealing from…
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
We Need a Smaller Pentagon
Sorry, but we have too many other needs in this country to spend $847 billion on a department that can’t even pass an audit.
How the Arms Industry Scams the Taxpayer
Contractors Cash in as Congress Adds Billions to the Pentagon Budget.
Ignoring How Militarism Fuels Climate Change Will Be the Death of Us
It’s time to acknowledge how the failure to connect the dots between U.S. imperialism and the growing climate crisis threatens all life on this planet in more ways than one.
What Would It Take for Military Spending in America to Go Down?
Take a moment with retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel William Astore for a little “thought experiment” about that very budget. Can we really be in a world too wild for…
The True Costs of America’s All-Consuming War-Culture
This country has sacralized its version of global war and now the world is reaping what we sowed.