Washington’s ‘Golden Dome’ – Multi-Trillion Tax Dollar Heist at Best, Dangerous Provocation at Worst

Brian Berletic, Orinoco Tribune, June 4, 2025 —  US President Donald Trump has announced his administration has chosen the architecture for the proposed Golden Dome missile defense system, claiming it will cost... Read more »

US To Boost Taiwan Arms Sales Beyond Trump’s $18.3b Benchmark

Orinoco Tribune, June 2, 2025 —  Despite the absence of formal diplomatic relations between Washington and Taipei, the US continues to interfere in China’s internal affairs under the pretext of security cooperation.... Read more »

The Political Economy of Systemic U.S. Militarism

  “U.S. Weapons Sale.” Cartoon by Cai Meng, China Daily, March 7, 2022. James M. Cypher, Monthly Review, Apr 1, 2022 — After what seems a couple of decades of near quietude,... Read more »

Time to Build a Movement to Cut Runaway Military Spending

U.S. Peace Council — August 3, 2020: For many decades, the US antiwar movement has been calling on Congress to cut the Pentagon budget, now officially at $740 billion. These demands were... Read more »

US Military Budget, Its Components, Challenges, And Growth

|Kimberly Amadeo| Estimated U.S. military spending is $989 billion. The U.S. spends more on defense than the next nine countries combined. Read more »

USPC Statement: Urgent Action is Needed to Defeat the Destructive 2020 Military Budget in Congress!

President Trump has submitted a 2020 budget targeting $750 billion, a staggering 69% of the budget ... Read more »

The Wall, The Endless War, and the Troops Who Pay

|Gerry Condon, Common Dreams| Neither Trump nor the rest of the Establishment appear to give a damn about the men and women whom they praise ... Read more »

War by Other Means: Washington Pressures EU Nations to Boycott Russia’s Nord Stream II Gas Pipeline

|Stephen Lendman, Global Research, December 15, 2018| | Read more »