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Would Chuck Hagel Really Slash the Pentagon Budget? (Arms and Spending Proliferation, Budget Wars, US Military)

Not once has Obama’s nominee voted to reject a defense budget.

Zoë Carpenter
Military personell
The True Costs of Empire (Arms and Spending Proliferation, Government, US Military Presence Abroad)

Why are US taxpayers still forced to pay billions of dollars for US military bases?

David Vine
Cyberwarfare
Beyond Bayonets and Battleships (Arms and Spending Proliferation, Barack Obama, US Military)

The future of US global power is in space warfare. 

Alfred W. McCoy
Is the US Monopolizing War? (Arms and Spending Proliferation, US Wars and Military Action, US Weapons Sales Abroad)

Military operations and arms sales are what America knows best. 

Tom Engelhardt
The New Obama Doctrine (Arms and Spending Proliferation, Covert Ops, US Military)

Obama's plan for global war uses a variety of extra-legal methods including drones, civilian and proxy fighters, and cyber warfare. 

Nick Turse
Iran's Ayatollah Is Right About One Thing (Arms and Spending Proliferation, Religion)

Nuclear weapons are sinful.

Robert Scheer
Barack Obama
Arms Dealer Obama Will Win by Default (Arms and Spending Proliferation, Election 2012, US Military Presence Abroad)

How much are the Democrats counting on the profits and jobs generated by arming the world in the coming election?

Robert Scheer
9 comments
Is US Aid Suppressing Yemen's Freedom Struggle? (Arms and Spending Proliferation, World)

The increased use of military helicopters to crack down on demonstrators in Yemen begs the question: Are any of these helicopters part of a recent aid package from the Obama administration?

Nick Turse
Taking Aim at the Pentagon Budget
Taking Aim at the Pentagon Budget (Arms and Spending Proliferation, US Military)

Economic crisis, deficit mania and war weariness have created political momentum for big cuts to military spending.

Robert Dreyfuss
12 comments
GOP Fires at the Pentagon (Arms and Spending Proliferation, Conservatives and the American Right, US Wars and Military Action)

Among Republicans, a civil war has broken out over defense spending.

Robert Dreyfuss
14 comments

Blogs

Barney Frank Talks Common Sense
Katrina vanden Heuvel

The congressman sees an opportunity to confront military bloat in the deficit debates and war-weariness.

May 1, 2013
Chuck Hagel's Speech: Nice, But No Cigar
Robert Dreyfuss

Let's see some numbers, and some specifics, about promised reforms and reorganization.

April 3, 2013
Hagel's Test
Robert Dreyfuss

Will the new secretary of defense stand up to the hawks and wield the budget axe?

April 2, 2013
The Hagel Disaster
Robert Dreyfuss

He’ll probably be confirmed, but the former senator didn’t exactly stand tall.

February 1, 2013
Ten Ridiculous Questions From Chuck Hagel’s Confirmation Hearing
George Zornick

We just witnessed one of the most absurd, embarrassing hearings in recent Washington memory.

January 31, 2013
Guns vs. Butter
Eric Alterman

Eric on Jazz at Lincoln Center and Reed on reining in defense spending.

January 24, 2013
Want Pentagon Cuts? Make Barney Frank a Senator
John Nichols

The former congressman, who wants an interim appointment to the Senate, says the Department of Defense “could get by with a lot less.”

January 9, 2013
Iran Shoots at US Drone
Robert Dreyfuss

A near-miss, in many senses of the word.

November 9, 2012
The Genius of McGovern's 'Come Home, America' Vision
John Nichols

The great liberal scoped out a vision for less military spending and more investment in domestic renewal. Now, even (some) conservatives get the point.

October 19, 2012
White House Cover-Up: When Truman Censored the First Hollywood Movie on the Atomic Bomb
Greg Mitchell

Sixty-seven years later, a look at one of the great, unknown tales of Hollywood "censorship."

September 27, 2012