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Star Wars: The Next Generation

When President Bush tapped Donald Rumsfeld for defense secretary, he signaled his intention to assign this well-seasoned Pentagon veteran the task of selling missile defense to Congress and US allies....

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The War Dividend

Within days of the Sept. 11 attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, Congress passed a $40 billion emergency spending package — half for reconstruction, half for combating terrorism. But...

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A Victory for the Star Wars Lobby

The Bush administration last week declared its intent to withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, calling the pact an obsolete agreement that stands in the way of US efforts to develop and...

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Is Lockheed Martin Shadowing You?

This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. Have you noticed that Lockheed Martin, the giant weapons corporation, is shadowing you? No? Then you haven’t been paying much attention. Let me put...

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Throwing Money at the Pentagon

This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. If you’ve been fretting about faltering math education and falling test scores here in the United States, you should be worried based on this...

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Beyond Nuclear Denial

This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. There was a time when nuclear weapons were a significant part of our national conversation. Addressing the issue of potential atomic annihilation...

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The US Government Is Literally Arming the World, and Nobody’s Even Talking...

This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. When American firms dominate a global market worth more than $70 billion a year, you’d expect to hear about it. Not so with the global arms trade....

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Why Can’t We Rein In This Ridiculous Military Spending?

This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. Through good times and bad, regardless of what’s actually happening in the world, one thing is certain: In the long run, the Pentagon budget won’t...

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Here’s Why the Defense Industry Is Ecstatic About a President Trump

This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. As with so much of what Donald Trump has said in recent months, his positions on Pentagon spending are, to be polite, a bundle of contradictions....

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