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Massive Military Spending Will not Solve Three Greatest Threats to our Safety and Security
Currently, the United States spends at least three quarters of a trillion dollars each year on the Pentagon.
Currently, the United States spends at least three quarters of a trillion dollars each year on the Pentagon.
The United States funds most of the world’s most oppressive militaries, sells them weapons, and trains them.
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US President Joe Biden’s budget proposal for the next fiscal year was recently announced, and it requests $715 billion for his first Pentagon budget, 1.6% more than the $704 billion enacted under Donald Trump’s administration.
The world is reeling in horror at the latest Israeli massacre of hundreds of men, women and children in Gaza.
This week on Talk World Radio we’re talking about activism on behalf of the basic human rights of Palestinians. Our guest is Nora Barrows-Friedman.
69 prominent Australians have signed an open letter to the Prime Minister Scott Morrison calling for a full parliamentary debate and vote before any new commitment to fighting overseas wars.
Mark Mank, a spokesman for the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) acknowledged “massive contamination” caused by the military’s use of PFAS at the Naval Research Lab – Chesapeake Bay Detachment in Chesapeake Beach, Maryland during the Navy’s RAB meeting on May 18, 2021.
Military spending allocated in the 2021 New Zealand Wellbeing Budget is $5,188,350,000 – an average of more than $99.7 million every week, and a 10.6% increase on actual spending in 2020.