When the election results came in on November 5th, I felt a pain in the pit of my stomach, similar to what…
Americaās commitment to arm Israel and Ukraine while attempting to stockpile large quantities of weapons for a potential war with China is putting strains…
TheĀ New York TimesĀ headlineĀ said it all: āMiddle East War Adds to Surge in International Arms Sales.āĀ The conflicts in Gaza, Ukraine, and beyond may…
Press coverage of yesterdayās passage of the Senate version of the annual Pentagon spending bill, known formally as the National Defense Authorization…
Hereās a seldom commented-upon reality of this century and this moment: the United States remains the number-one arms-exporting nation on the planet.…
This March, when the Biden administration presented a staggeringĀ $813 billionĀ proposal for ānational defense,ā it was hard to imagine a budget that could…
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