Biden reneged on his campaign promise of stopping weapons of war from going to law enforcement agencies. Congress should pressure him to use his executive power to prevent further transfers of military hardware and recall combat gear from our streets.
U.S. objectives in Syria are unattainable. Syrian civilians will continue to suffer needlessly as the U.S. military occupies one-third of the country and Washington amplifies economic pressures in hopes that a favorable outcome will somehow materialize. This is cruel and counterproductive. To actually use their leverage in Syria, U.S. forces must withdraw.
War is an industry. Breaking down defense contracting for FY2020 shows exactly how the military industrial complex wins favorable policies, runs pressure groups and think tanks, and dominates the Pentagon — so it can eke out contracts to hand government jobs over to Corporate America.
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.
Afghanistan has been almost entirely absent from American media coverage. Unfortunately, US press interest in the war hasn’t correlated with civilian deaths.