military industrial complex

“Every battle is won before it is fought.”

President Trump’s foreign policy is sinking into incoherence from the Middle East to the Far East, with his promise of less interventionism and budget savings disappearing from view, as Ivan Eland reports. By Ivan Eland The recent North Korean missile…Read more →

Or, when is what looks like a cake not a cake?WaPo caption: President Trump, left, and Vice President Pence are helped by Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Matthew Babot as they cut a cake at the armed services ball.

Ron Paul weighs in.

U.S. industrial policy, as practiced (click to enlarge; source)by Gaius PubliusI was of two minds, Like a treeIn which there are two blackbirds.    (with apologies to Wallace Stevens)Much of the debate around U.S.

Exclusive: The New Cold War with Russia provides a stronger budgetary lifeline for the Military-Industrial Complex than the War on Terror does while helping to quiet critics of wasteful spending, as Jonathan Marshall describes. By Jonathan Marshall The world’s mightiest…Read more →

Exclusive: Hillary Clinton, who has carved out a reputation as a war hawk, has quietly voiced opposition to a $1 trillion plan to modernize America’s nuclear arsenal, including a nuke-tipped cruise missile, notes Jonathan Marshall. By Jonathan Marshall Whoever is hacking Hillary Clinton’s…Read more →

Exclusive: Money may not be the root of all evil but it surely contributes to horrible war crimes when lucrative arms sales distort U.S. foreign policy and cause selective outrage over human rights atrocities, writes Jonathan Marshall. By Jonathan Marshall…Read more →

President Obama approved $38 billion in military aid to Israel, but that cash is then recycled to subsidize the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex like some giant money-laundering machine of the taxpayers’ money, explains JP Sottile. By JP Sottile The Israeli lobby…Read more →