Some 8,000 U.S. contractors have died abroad since 9/11, compared to 7,000 U.S. troops.
Posts Tagged: pentagon budget
Over-funding police has terrorized people of color and left communities less secure. Can the same not be said of the Pentagon?
A Pentagon plan for "semiautonomous" nuclear devices in Iraq, U.S. state media calling George Soros a "nonbelieving Jew," and other headlines you may have missed last year.
The U.S. military is creating an imaginary “space gap” to pour money into closing, wasting funds while increasing the risk of conflict.
By any measure, the War Powers Act has failed to constrain presidential warmaking. A simpler step would be to stop funding wars.
We could easily fund health care for all by ending military boondoggles and fruitless wars. Here’s how.
War and militarism are destroying the planet. But if we de-fund the Pentagon, we can save it.
The outgoing House speaker’s entire career was a cash grab for billionaires, capped off by a low trick to literally starve children in Yemen.
The media treated Trump's petty snub of John McCain as a bigger controversy than the $717 billion Pentagon bill named for the Arizona senator.
Congressional apathy toward our wars and schemes abroad marks a dangerous sign of democratic decay. But it’s not too late.