…are an aficionado of Star Trek, the Ferengi would be precisely on point). Unless there are compensating gains in territory and/or booty, wars are a strain on a society’s resources….

…Invasion of Iraq. The soldiers in all these wars believed in whatever they had been taught to believe in. In all these wars, they all believed the Big Lie. But…

…of 2008, the economy would have enjoyed years of tax cuts, years of cheap money coupled with low inflation, years of reduced regulation, and a couple (semi-privatized) small wars. Would…

…impact of militarization is huge, and the long-term wars we are engaged in currently, and their high costs, surely impact our economy. Surely the military-industrial complex and its demands on…

…spending, that meant we borrowed to pay for the war of choice that Bush led us into. In most wars, this country’s citizens and leaders have been somewhat wiser on…

…Iraq war contractors has created what she called “a live war military-industrial complex”—that is, an industry that depends for its profits, even its existence, on hot wars, wars that kill…

…wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in recent years. The ongoing battle against the insurgency in Iraq may even be called a war. But the “War on Terror” is something different….

…ask Congress for another $70 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, congressional sources said on Thursday. The sources said that money, which would come on top of about…

…We’ve used the Social Security surplus for years to mask deficit spending–especially the wasteful deficit spending of the Bush years, to fund his wars of choice rather than pay for…

…self-styled legal foundations around the country serving as pro bono counsel in a culture-wars and Koch-brothers-wish-list cases (think: affirmative action, attempts to nullify the Voting Rights Act, attempts (currently, at…