“20 Years of US Torture and Counting”: Report Details Post-9/11 Abuse at Gitmo and Beyond
Biden administration actions raise sobering questions about its commitment to ending the so-called 'War on Terror.'
The Pentagon Just Got $778 Billion, But USAID Is Running Out of Money for COVID-19 Vaccines?
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…
How Awesome is ‘Awesome’? America’s Underperforming Military
By Andrew Bacevich / TomDispatch Professional sports is a cutthroat business. Succeed and the people running the show reap rich rewards. Fail to meet expectations and you get handed your…
It’s Time to Make Deep Cuts at the Pentagon
Retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, and historian William Astore considers a military in which the losses are all on the battlefield and the gains in Congress as well as in…
House Approves $778 Billion Military Budget
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…
What Our Forever Wars Really Cost You
Why is it so hard for so many in Washington to imagine spending the sort of money on our needs that they wouldn’t think twice about forking over to the…
Who Is America’s Real God?
In God We Trust is on all our coins. But, which god?
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…
Senate Panel Approves Extra $29 Billion for Pentagon
The Senate committee vote included $10 billion more than requested.
Stop Calling the Military Budget a ‘Defense’ Budget
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.
Andrew Cockburn: War Is a Multi-Trillion-Dollar Racket and the Pentagon Knows It
The journalist and Harper's editor brilliantly documents the motivations behind the U.S. military’s war lust in his new book, “Spoils of War.”
Recovering from America’s Imperial Delusions
U.S. Army soldiers conduct a foot patrol in Afghanistan.
The Names You’ll Never Know
Few in Washington have ever displayed the slightest sense of sorrow or remorse when it comes to the staggering death toll this country caused in so many distant lands in…
How Corporations Won the War on Terror
Turns out failed wars and thousands of lives lost are good for (some) business.
Up to Half of the $14 Trillion Spent by Pentagon Since 9/11 Has Gone to War Profiteers
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.