Arms races and sales and Sunday reading…
…a 2012 year-end review and forecast released in December. Fears resulting from China’s growing military spending (bolding mine…the US has about 4.8% spending to GDP ratio) should lead to enough…
…a 2012 year-end review and forecast released in December. Fears resulting from China’s growing military spending (bolding mine…the US has about 4.8% spending to GDP ratio) should lead to enough…
…all Department of Health and Human Services agencies, including the National Institutes of Health.6 The US military is grappling with an increase in suicides within its ranks. Earlier this month,…
…it isn’t a concrete proposal but actually merely puffery that restates the position that the GOP wants lots of entitlement cuts, no military cuts, and no tax rate increases (but…
…“celebrate” Easter to mature wild horses slaughtered to satisfy other countries’ craving for meat, from death penalty murders by the state to drone murders by the military. The right’s fixation…
…global military dominance, and middle class prosperity. He argues that the country’s former economic and military dominance gave it a “cushion” that was able to sustain the middle class, but…
…as Democratic speeches noted, is against him. When he refuses to specify just what programs he would cut while cutting taxes and increasing military expenditures, many voters are naturally suspicious…
…public good (environmental programs, parks, etc.) and vulnerable minorities in this country and isn’t part of the military-industrial-financial complex. That is, social welfare programs that have made the difference between…
…policy proposals: to significantly increase spending on the proverbial military-industrial complex and dramatically decrease both domestic spending and tax revenue. Contrary to the punditry’s meme, Romney hasn’t been unspecific about…
…question that should be asked before any president sends U.S. forces into a fight overseas or members of Congress propose legislation that authorizes some sort of military action abroad. “We…
…wars of choice in Afghanistan and Iraq. We need to cut military spending significantly, and it will not hurt the country’s defense to do so. (It may, however, crimp the…