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'An Insult to the American People': Outrage After Pentagon Fails First-Ever Audit

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New Study Details 'Staggering' $6 Trillion (and Counting) Price Tag of Endless US War

Julia Conley, staff writer

"The U.S. continues to fund the wars by borrowing, so this is a conservative estimate of the consequences of funding the war as if on a credit card."

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For Next Weapon in Anti-Protest Arsenal, US Military Building Plasma Gun Capable of Vaporizing Human Flesh

Jon Queally, staff writer

At its highest setting, the new laser weapon would painfully vaporize the outer...

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Trump's Space Force to Cost $13 Billion and Air Force Wants 70 New Squadrons, But 'How You Gonna Pay For It?'

Jon Queally, staff writer

When Medicare for All and paid family leave are called "pie in the sky," but...

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What the US-Backed Slaughter of Children in Yemen Looks Like: 'Warning: The Images... Are Extremely Graphic'

U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis departs after meeting with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the Ministry of Defense on April 19, 2017 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Plan to Train Saudi Pilots on US Soil Undermines Pentagon Denial of Complicity in Yemen Carnage

Not Saying the Words "John McCain" Is Least Vile Thing About Trump's Signing of $717 Billion Military Spending Bill

Let the Great Logo Race for Trump's Idiotic Space Force Begin...

'Idiotic' 'Wasteful' 'Ridiculous': Mike Pence Pilloried as He Puts on His Serious Face to Make Case for Trump's Space Force

As the Washington Post's Jeff Stein noted on Twitter, the legislation will hit Trump's desk at a time when "military spending, adjusted for inflation, is higher than at any point outside the Iraq War."

40 Senate Democrats Vote to Send $717B Military Spending Bill to Trump's Desk

139 House Democrats Join GOP to Approve $717 Billion in Military Spending

Sanders to Trump: Instead of Telling Europe To Buy More Guns Like US, "Why Don't We Join Them in Guaranteeing Health Care to All'

Urging Europe to Mirror America's Wasteful War Budget, Trump Tells NATO Leaders to Double Spending

A woman sits with her son

Trump's "Next Cruel Plot": DHS Asks Pentagon to Build Border Detention Camps for Families

Trump Has Called for Pentagon to Make Beds Available for 20,000 Children at US Military Bases

Millions Lack Food, Housing, and Healthcare, But 38 Democrats Just Joined GOP to Spend $716 Billion on Endless War and Empire

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Peace Action

Peace Action Applauds the Congressional Progressive Caucus’ People’s Budget

Congresswoman Barbara Lee

Funding Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons Heightens the Risks of Nuclear War

Amnesty International - USA

Amnesty International Calls on US to Investigate All Claims of Civilian Casualties

Veterans for Peace

Veterans Unite with Poor People's Campaign...

Peace Action

Peace Action: Another Tax Day, Another Win for the Arms Industry

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

Campaigners Lambast £600m Extra for Trident Submarines

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