No Matter How Many Billions Get Added To The Pentagon Budget, It's Never Enough
It couldn't have surprised anyone that on Monday the the Wall Street Journal was demanding that the U.S. radically increase the Pentagon...
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Howie Klein
- Dec 30, 2021
- 4 min
Do You Want Congress To Re-Direct Funds Towards Domestic Priorities Instead Of War? Vote For That
Late at night on December 7, the House overwhelmingly passed the final version of the bloated Pentagon budget, piling on all kinds of...
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Howie Klein
- Dec 15, 2021
- 2 min
The Senate, Designed As An Anti-Democratic Institution Should Be An Honorific Debate Club
High Drug Prices Bloated War Budget Biden nominated Dr. Robert Califf as the head of the FDA. Califf, a total shill for Big PhRMA, was...
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Howie Klein
- Dec 8, 2021
- 5 min
The Disgraceful Pentagon Budget Passed Last Night-- Only 51 Dems Voted Against It
As expected, it passed the House late last night, 363-70, but maybe Pelosi and Hoyer don't want voters to be able to find how members...
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Howie Klein
- Dec 6, 2021
- 7 min
Horse & Carriage, Love & Marriage... Treason & Fascism & Trump
There is a part of the 1/6 insurrection that no one has wanted to delve into too, too deeply: the role of the Pentagon... the Trump...
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Howie Klein
- Nov 30, 2021
- 6 min
Good News! The War Department's Bloated, Wasteful Budget Failed Yesterday
Progressive senators Bernie, Elizabeth Warren, Jeff Merkley, Ed Markey and Ron Wyden were followed by every Republican but Susan Collins....
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Howie Klein
- Nov 7, 2021
- 9 min
After Afghanistan-- A Peace Dividend? You Must Be Joking
Who's To Blame? The U.S. finally withdrew from Afghanistan, the smoothest and most successful withdrawal from that country since... I...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 13, 2021
- 4 min
When It Comes To Ending Forever War, America Needs Leaders To Forge The Way-- like Norman Solomon
In 2011, when iconic progressive Lynn Woolsey announced she was retiring from her deep blue congressional seat north of San Francisco,...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 11, 2021
- 7 min
A Better Way To Think About The 9/11 Anniversary
The Democratic controlled Congress-- like Republican controlled Congresses-- keeps increasing a war budget that needs to be slashed....
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Howie Klein
- Aug 18, 2021
- 5 min
Peace Dividend? Or More Billions Transferred To The Military Industrial Complex?
Reporting for Roll Call yesterday, Andrew Clevenger wrote that it isn't expected on Capitol Hill that the disastrous collapse in...
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Howie Klein
- May 27, 2021
- 4 min
Meet The Senate Nuke Caucus, Busting The Budget & Making The World Less Safe
These lawmakers represent states with a direct interest in pouring billions into modernizing and building new weapons -by Marcy Winograd...
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Howie Klein
- Apr 10, 2021
- 6 min
Another Reminder That Biden Sure Ain't Bernie-- Today's Bloated, Immoral Military Budget
We should set the military budget based on what it actually costs to defend the country, not how much it costs to indulge neo-cons and...
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Howie Klein
- Feb 10, 2021
- 3 min
The Domestic Terrorist Party Is A Threat To The U.S. Military
It wasn't just Trump's third rate legal team that made him look bad yesterday. One of his most important real estate partners, Steven...
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Howie Klein
- Jan 26, 2021
- 5 min
The Pentagon Didn't Work To See Members Of Congress Killed... But Someone IN The Pentagon Did-- Who?
Trump put some of his most vicious, amoral partisans into the Pentagon chain of command in the last month his regime. It made a lot of...
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Howie Klein
- Dec 17, 2020
- 6 min
The EcoHealth Alliance Has Hidden $40 Million In Pentagon Funding And Militarized Pandemic Science
-by Sam Husseini “Pandemics are like terrorist attacks: We know roughly where they originate and what’s responsible for them, but we...
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Howie Klein
- Dec 9, 2020
- 5 min
Are Biden's Cabinet Choices Worse Than You Expected When You Voted For Him?
A few days ago, I conceded that at least Biden's Cabinet isn't going to be as bad as Trump's. Do you find that consoling? I'd give Biden...
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