Topic: military spending

President Donald Trump at the 2026 NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

NATO’s summit of love that wasn't

Heather Digby Parton
A Ukrainian serviceman walks towards the front line in the city of Irpin, northern Ukraine, on March 12, 2022. - Russian forces are positioned around Kiev on March 12, 2022 and are "blocking" Mariupol, where thousands of people are suffering a devastating siege, in southern Ukraine, a country that has been bombed for more than two weeks. (ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Russia's war crimes — and America's

Norman Solomon
A Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter jet is parked on the tarmac at the Payerne Air Base as a Boeing McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet takes off in the background, during flight and ground tests, as Switzerland is looking for a new fighter jet to replace its aging fleet, on June 7, 2019 in Payerne. (FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

Massive new military budget: "Reckless"

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
Democratic presidential hopeful former US Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. speaks during the second Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season hosted by NBC News at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, Florida, June 27, 2019. (Getty/Saul Loeb)

Shrinking the Pentagon

William Hartung, Mandy Smithberger - TomDispatch.com
The preparations of the coalition forces before starting their joint patrols with the People's Protection Units on April 29, 2017 near Turkey Broder, Syria. (Bedir Ehmed/Barcroft Media/Getty Images)

Can we turn away from endless war?

Medea Benjamin
Donald Trump | China (Getty Images/Salon)

The new Cold War with China

Michael T. Klare - TomDispatch.com
FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015, file photo, an F-35 jet arrives at its new operational base at Hill Air Force Base, in northern Utah. Shares of Lockheed Martin fell Monday, Dec. 12, 2016, as President-elect Donald Trump tweeted that making F-35 fighter planes is too costly and that he will cut "billions" in costs for military purchases. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) (AP)

Carbon boot-print

Kate Yoder - Grist
Dick Cheney, Qassem Soleimani, and Bernie Sanders (AP Photo/Salon)

America's war machine and the Democrats

David Masciotra
(Getty/icholakov)

The Pentagon budget just keeps rising

William D. Hartung - TomDispatch.com
U.S. President Donald Trump talks to journalists while departing the White House August 01, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump tries strong-arming Jeff Bezos

Terry H. Schwadron - DCReport
Members of the military salute as US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump depart on Marine One from Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland on July 7, 2019. - Trump is returning to Washington after spending the weekend at his Bedminster golf resort. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images) (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)

Congress unites over US military budget

Rebecca U. Thorpe - The Conversation
(Getty/Salon)

Borrowing as the future burns

Bob Hennelly
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
Sen. James Inhofe (Getty/Chip Somodevilla)

Jim Inhofe's dubious stock buy

Igor Derysh
(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
Flight deck crew prepare to launch an F/A 18 Hornet during early morning flight operations from the USS Theodore Roosevelt, Thursday March 20, 2003. (AP/Richard Vogel)

Congress keeps funding a war machine

Medea Benjamin, Elliot Swain - Alternet
This Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016 photo provided by the U.S. Air Force shows an unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operational test from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The unarmed missile roared out of its underground bunker on the California coastline and soared over the Pacific, inscribing the signature of American power amid growing worry about North Korea's pursuit of nuclear weapons capable of reaching U.S. soil.(Staff Sgt. Jim Araos/U.S. Air Force via AP) (AP)

Enormous cost of more nuclear weapons

Guy T. Saperstein, Kelsey Abkin - Alternet
(AP Photo/Charlie Riedel. File)

The U.S. gift to Ukraine and Israel

Max Blumenthal - Alternet
(Reuters/Tim Wimborne)

More blank checks for the war machine

Charlie May
FILE - This Sept. 2, 2015 file photo shows an F-16, below, escorting two F-35 jets, above, after arriving the latter arrived at Hill Air Force Base in Utah. The U.S. and its Asia-Pacific allies are rolling out their new stealth fighter jet, a cutting-edge plane that costs about $100 million each. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) (AP)

War's hidden costs

William D. Hartung - TomDispatch.com
(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

Is Russia threat exaggerated?

Ronald Suny - The Conversation
An F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet sits onboard the U.S. Navy's USS George Washington aircraft carrier. (Reuters)

A wide world of winless wars

Nick Turse - TomDispatch.com
(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

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