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Topic: Military budget

Committee chairman Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., talks with ranking member Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., before the start of a Senate Armed Services hearing on Capitol Hill, March 15, 2022. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Senate pushing massive weapons buildup

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Vest, equipment and helmet worn by US Marines (Getty Images/Michael Sugrue)

Military has money, lacks people

Andrea Mazzarino - TomDispatch.com
US Army helicopters are parked in the port of Alexandroupoli, Northern Greece, on December 3, 2021. (SAKIS MITROLIDIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Congress loots Treasury for war machine

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Toy soldier fighting on money (Getty Images)

How war makes the climate crisis worse

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
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Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Don't be fooled by Joe Biden

Chris Hedges
Barbara Lee, Mark Pocan and Pramila Jayapal (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Will the left push back on Pentagon?

Medea Benjamin, Marcy Winograd
modern warfare (Getty Images)

Big Tech fueling scary AI "arms race"

Jon Skolnik
Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc )

GOP senators behind skimpy $600 billion

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
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Military funding concept (Getty Images/Salon)

Defund the police? Let's defund war too

Medea Benjamin, Zoltán Grossman
Dick Cheney, Qassem Soleimani, and Bernie Sanders (AP Photo/Salon)

America's war machine and the Democrats

David Masciotra
(AP/Andrew Harnik)

Trump may raid relief funds for wall

Igor Derysh
An F/A 18E Super Hornet from the United States Navy fighter squadron VFA-115 (Getty/Ian Hitchcock)

Our poor military-industrial complex

Alan MacLeod
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Sen. James Inhofe (Getty/Chip Somodevilla)

Jim Inhofe's dubious stock buy

Igor Derysh
Donald Trump; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Getty/Jamie Squire/Win McNamee)

Ocasio-Cortez as bad as Trump?

Reed Richardson
(AP/Jean-Marc Bouju)

How to blow $700 billion and lose wars

Lucian K. Truscott IV
John McCain (AP/Matt Rourke)

Another American happy warrior

Bob Hennelly
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US Army 2nd Battalion, 10th Regiment, 10th Brigade UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters take off during a joint US-Romanian air assault exercise at the Mihail Kogalniceanu airbase, eastern Romania, Wednesday, March 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) (AP)

William D. Hartung
(Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin/Getty/KirillKudryavtsev)

Russia's big defense cuts

Danielle Ryan
(Getty/Saul Loeb)

Trump's dangerous buildup

Gary Legum
(Getty/Michael Heiman/Salon)

Trump's ignorant war lust

Bob Cesca
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Donald Trump (Reuters/Carlo Allegri)

John Feffer - TomDispatch.com
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pentagon's massive waste

Matthew Rozsa
Dick Cheney on "Cavuto," on the Fox Business Network, Dec. 9, 2013. (AP/Richard Drew)

GOP's ugly food-stamp fixation

Joan Walsh
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