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'What Kind of Maniacs Are Running This Country?': Pentagon Rings in New Year With Joke About Dropping Massive Bombs on People

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

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

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Decrying "unchecked waste, fraud, and abuse," Rep. Barbara Lee said, "This is exactly why we must #AuditThePentagon."

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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...

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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?'

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

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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

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Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Latest Defense Report Aims to Get Military Climate Ready, But Key Information Also Missing

Democratic Socialists of America

The Democratic Socialists of Americas Calls on the United States to End Support for the Saudi-led Criminal Military Intervention in Yemen

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...

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Nick Turse

Bases, Bases, Everywhere... Except in the Pentagon’s Report

Lindsay Koshgarian

A Point of Holiday Agreement: Stop Wasting Money on the Pentagon

Tom Engelhardt

In Praise of a Military Budget That Ensures Our Destruction

Medea Benjamin, Alice Slater

Why Green New Deal Advocates Must Address Militarism

Mike Lofgren

The Bad Ideas-Industrial Complex

Reed Richardson

Trump, Ocasio-Cortez, and Factcheck False Equivalence

Robert C. Koehler

It's Time. We Must Jam the 'Demonic, Destructive Suction Tube'

Danny Sjursen

Arnold R. Isaacs

Disremembering Vietnam: On Making America’s Wars Great Again

Rory Fanning, Spenser Rapone

Your Commander-in-Chief Is Lying to You: Veterans Issue Open Letter to Active Duty US Soldiers

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