Defense
Making the Military Christian
Chris Rodda: Former Army chaplain’s PhD dissertation reveals Southern Baptist blueprint to convert the military
Murderous Madness for Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear “modernization” proceeds apace in the U.S. at an estimated cost of nearly $2 trillion over the next few decades. Is this not the very definition of a murderous insanity?
Militarism Running Mad
Perhaps it’s time to build more battleships to help the poor and struggling? We can house the unhoused in ships!
General Dynamics Shuts Out Critics, “Radical Skeptics”
It’s time to stop buying the lie that corporate accountability for war crimes and human rights violations is really an attempt to “embed radical skepticism toward U.S. foreign policy.”
Does Global Capitalism Now Depend on War-Making to Sustain Itself?
“For the defense industry, happy days are here again. When the defense budget rises it tends to lift all boats in the industry.”
Corporate Military Contractors Got $900 of Your Tax Dollars
This tax season, I'd rather fund green jobs and disease control than jets that spontaneously combust. Wouldn't you?
Will Pentagon Budget Ever Shrink?
When it comes to weapons, budgets, and war, the military-industrial complex’s philosophy is captured by an arch comment of the legendary actress Mae West: “Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.”
Pity Ukraine—and Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, and any other War Zone
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is being seized upon by the military-industrial-congressional complex as the primary reason why U.S. spending on weapons and warfare must soar ever higher.
Cold Wars, Then and Now
Here’s the irony: going back to Cold War levels of Pentagon funding would mean reducing, not increasing spending.
Why Is US Military Budget More Outrageous Than Ever?
Spending 12 times as much on our military as Russia didn't prevent a war in Europe. It just deprived us of resources at home.
$778 Billion for the Pentagon and Still Counting
William Hartung: Opposing Build Back Better while throwing so much more money at the Pentagon marks the ultimate in budgetary and national-security hypocrisy.
Nuclear Annihilation and Other Topics in Video and Copy
RJ Eskow: There wasn't the slightest basis to think that anyone in power would be ready to lose 20 million people, or 10 million people, or 1 million.
What Really Are Air Force Core Values?
WJ Astore: The Air Force has conspired to advance an image of airpower as surgical and precise when it clearly isn’t, and indeed never has been.
Stop Blaming Biden Defense Department for Something the Former Guy Created
Chris Rodda: Shields of Strength, the Christian jewelry company that produces the Bible verse dog tags with official DoD emblems on them, is refusing to comply with the DoD’s decision that it can’t use the official DoD branch emblems on its Bible verse products.
What Defense Contractor Ads Tell Us
WJ Astore: Maybe we should keep our troops safe by not putting them in harm’s way, unless the defense of America truly requires it?
Taming the Military Industrial Complex: One Successful Battle
Jan Weir: The US military’s grasp for political control of America was recognized in 1975 after a series of intelligence community abuses came to light.
America Has Failed Eisenhower
WJ Astore: Collectively, we have failed to heed Ike’s warning. We have failed to curb the military-industrial complex.
Going Nuclear on Pentagon Spending
WJ Astore: Why, despite decades of disastrous wars, do Pentagon budgets continue to grow, year after year, like ever-expanding nuclear mushroom clouds?
How Congress Loots Treasury for the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex
Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J. S. Davies: Year after year, members of Congress hand over the largest share of our nation’s resources to this corrupt institution, with minimal scrutiny and no apparent fear of accountability when it comes to their own reelection.
Why Join the Military?
W.J. Astore: If you think you’re important, you’re not: and the military will remind you of this. You’re a pawn in a vast bureaucracy
Congress Authorizes Weapons Spending Pentagon Wanted Killed
John LaForge: Committees have repeatedly kept hundreds of millions of tax dollars gushing into the coffers of the world biggest weapons contractors — for weapons declared unnecessary by the military.
Where Are Headlines Touting Hefty Pentagon Price Tag?
Sonali Kolhatkar: The Pentagon budget is effectively stealing from government benefits to ordinary Americans. But don’t rely on corporate media or lawmakers to even acknowledge, let alone debate this issue.
The Pentagon's Yearly Blank Check
William D. Hartung and Mandy Smithberger: Any attempt to curb Pentagon spending will run up against a strikingly powerful arms industry that deploys campaign contributions, lobbyists, and promises of defense-related employment to keep budgets high.
Biden and Congress Agree: Build Back Bombs Better
John V. Walsh: A 23% cut in the military budget (or if you wish to cast your net wider, a 13% cut in the “national security” budget) will fund the entire Build Back Better Bill – with no more cuts.