This year, average taxpayers paid twice as much to corporate military contractors than on caring for all veterans combined.
Issues / War & Peace
If you thought the "global war on terror" was a significant overreach for a single power, just wait.
American taxpayers are helping to fight someone else’s war in Yemen, and the blood is on our hands.
The film contrasts aloof isolationism with Gates Foundation-style paternalism. It unfairly paints more revolutionary alternatives as narrowly violent.
The late civil rights leader warned prophetically that the U.S. would be trapped in a series of overseas military entanglements while the gap between the rich and poor back home grew ever larger.
The president once distanced himself from the Bush legacy. Now he's brought back the architects of its darkest moments.
An under-the radar gathering at the White House exposes troubling new drifts in U.S. foreign policy.
It's ironic that the most powerful man on earth would protest that he's the subject of a "witch hunt," especially given his enthusiasm for bombing and torturing people.
Americans spend $32 million per hour on wars started during the Bush administration.
Guam and Okinawa have a shared history of exploitation by their governments — and a shared threat from new military installations.