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Lindsay Koshgarian
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Military & Security
War is imminent. Present Trump authorized a military strike to kill Iranian military leader Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani in Baghdad, an act that has driven the Iranians to swear retaliation. The military action to kill Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani was dangerous, illegal and possibly untruthful. The United States must avoid war with...
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John Feffer
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Military & Security
Trump’s not bringing the troops home. He’s been haphazardly deploying more troops, drones, and dollars abroad, while waging a shadow foreign policy for his own benefit.
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Lindsay Koshgarian
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Budget Process,
Military & Security
Join us October 29 in Northampton, MA!
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Ashik Siddique
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Military & Security
There are 127,586,000 households total in the U.S., according to the most recent Census. The cost of wind power for the average US household for one year is $581.28 as of 2018, and the cost for solar electiricty is $623.92. 127.59 million households × $581.28 (Cost per Household with Wind Power...
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Lindsay Koshgarian
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Military & Security
This week, Frances Crowe, the lifelong peace and anti-nuclear activist (among other causes), passed away. She was 100 years old, and she estimated that she’d been arrested for civil disobedience at least 100 times.
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Lindsay Koshgarian
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Budget Process,
Military & Security
In July, lawmakers voted along bipartisan lines to pass a budget deal (now also Trump-approved) that will fund the federal government for the next two years, and help the United States avoid a potentially catastrophic default on its debt for the same period. But the deal didn’t come cheap: it came at the price of an astoundingly high, $738 billion military budget.
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Robert Artiga-Valencia
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Military & Security
$121.1 billion. That’s how much more money the United States spends on its military than 144 other countries combined.
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Lindsay Koshgarian
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Budget Process,
Military & Security
On Friday the House of Representatives voted 220-197 to approve a military budget of $733 billion through the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
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Huzaifa Shahbaz
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Military & Security
There are plenty of other issues at stake with FY 2020’s National Defense Authorization Act, beyond just how enormous the military’s budget will be.
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Ashik Siddique
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Military & Security
This 4th of July, President Trump is flaunting some of the Pentagon's deepest money pits on the National Mall.