Congressional progressives must reject Biden's regressive budget
There is nothing progressive about Biden’s $753 million military budget request.
Read MoreIndustry cash, not public opinion, predicts Democrat votes on defense
In large numbers, congressional Democrats voted against amendments to shave 10 percent off the Pentagon budget. We break down the numbers and defense industry campaign contributions to show how the party’s fiercest “resistance” occurs along class, rather than partisan, lines.
Read MoreCommittee Chair and gatekeeper to a progressive foreign policy: Eliot Engel’s violent incumbency
Sixteen-time incumbent Eliot Engel supported the racist 1994 crime bill, building more prisons, and gutting public schools. His foreign policy is even worse. As House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Engel stands in the way of a progressive foreign policy.
Read MoreCorporate militarism: Steny Hoyer’s foreign policy for the few
A better Congress requires electing leaders who will fight for the working class, and removing those who won’t. There is an opportunity to do both in Maryland’s 5th congressional district on June 2.
Read MoreKeep fighting for a better Congress
As essential workers bail out the country, Congress bails out (non-essential) corporations. The most promising candidates have now dropped out of the presidential race, yet Congress is still up for grabs. A better Congress is possible — and more important now than ever.
Read MoreThink Trump’s corruption is unique? Look across the aisle.
Adam Smith condemned Trump’s corruption, but as Smith’s own campaign warchest demonstrates, much of ‘national security’ funding has an afterlife propping up the campaigns of members of Congress who are friendly to the industry. The ranking Democrats’ impeachment inquiry was never about corruption per se, but rather about which forms of corruption ‘national security’ permits.
Read More‘Deal of the Century’ dead on arrival - Part 1: How U.S. military aid sabotaged the Israel-Palestine ‘peace process’
There is good reason to dwell on the deliberate cruelty of foreign policy in the era of Trump. This would be a mistake. It is precisely the temptation to see these events as a historical discontinuity that must be resisted, lest we fail to understand the fact that in terms of substance, Trump’s approach to Palestine differs little from that of his predecessors in the White House and in Congress.
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