Former U.S. nuclear commander startles with proposal to cut weapons arsenal by 80%
By R. Jeffrey SmithiWatch NewsThe chairman of a House subcommittee that helps shape the nation's nuclear arsenal, Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), has bee...
By R. Jeffrey SmithiWatch NewsThe chairman of a House subcommittee that helps shape the nation's nuclear arsenal, Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), has bee...
The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 05.26.2012
By David Axe, iWatch NewsWhen the Obama administration dispatched three B-2 bombers from a Missouri air base on March 19 last year to cross the ocea...
William Hartung | Posted 04.04.2012
Uncritical support of Pentagon spending will make us weaker, not stronger. We need to get our fiscal house in order while still finding money to invest in the pillars of a strong economy.
Huffington Post | Chris C. Anderson | Posted 01.06.2012
President Barack Obama unveiled his defense strategy, which features an emphasis on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) or Drones. This coming fresh o...
Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe | Posted 03.06.2012
Will super-rich war-industry CEOs be able to keep bilking taxpayers out of hundreds of billions of dollars? That's the question everyone should be ask...
Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 02.05.2012
Not surprisingly, the United States is by far the largest arms exporter, with Russia being the only country with more than half the value of military exports.
Max Stanley | Posted 01.03.2012
The war industry stood back with glee when it released a shoddy study that produced the sought-after deceptive headlines about defense spending, the magic sauce of job creation.
Robert Greenwald | Posted 12.27.2011
There's the top 1% of wealthy Americans (bankers, oil tycoons, hedge fund managers) and there's the top 0.01% of wealthy Americans: the military contractor CEOs.
Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe | Posted 11.21.2011
Military contractors are crying crocodile tears right now about the "fragility" of their industry. But in fact that industry is flush with cash, and will do or say anything to protect the one thing they care about above all else: profit.
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 10.24.2011
If we redirected 25 percent of defense spending to renewable energy, we could spur competition and innovation amongst the top defense contractors for federal renewable energy contracts instead of military contracts.
This story comes to us courtesy of California Watch. By Chase Davis The news this week that Texas Gov. Rick Perry is all but certain to enter t...
Brian Ross | Posted 08.14.2011
NATO was the Obama Administration's answer to a long call by social liberals and fiscal libertarians to make the other countries of the world step-up to these moral imperatives and pay a bigger part of the way. It has been a spectacular failure.
Reuters | Jim Finkle and Andrea Shalal-Esa | Posted 07.27.2011
By Jim Finkle and Andrea Shalal-Esa BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Unknown hackers have broken into the security networks of Lockheed Martin Cor...
Posted 07.10.2011
(AP/THE HUFFINGTON POST) LOS ANGELES -- Northrop Grumman Corp. on Monday unveiled a new type of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft...
Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011
Huffington Post Reporter Marcus Baram appeared on MSNBC on Tuesday to discuss U.S. corporations that have had business dealings in Libya. Baram recen...
Jackson Williams | Posted 05.25.2011
An 18-day peaceful revolution has just toppled Egypt's 30-year Mubarak dictatorship. As the free-falling government dispatched American-made F-16s to...
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011
The American Small Business League (ASBL) is predicting that President Obama will rely on the same tired rhetoric regarding economic stimulus, while continuing to ignore the diversion of federal small business contracts to corporate giants.
The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
Get ready for the next generation of passenger airplanes. NASA has taken the wraps off three concept designs for quiet, energy efficient aircraft th...
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011
Let's just try something crazy like not giving federal small business contracts to some of the biggest companies in the world, and instead direct those dollars to the nation's 27 million small businesses.
William Hartung | Posted 05.25.2011
One common theme that runs through deficit proposals is the need to make substantial cuts in Pentagon spending. But there will be another obstacle before real savings can be reaped: pork barrel politics.
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011
Small business advocates have raised concerns a section of the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act will be used to threaten and intimidate small businesses that take issue with DoD's small business contracting practices.
Rizwan Ladha | Posted 05.25.2011
The ability of the United States to defend itself through all three legs -- land, air and sea -- is contingent upon its continued cooperation with its largest economic rival, China.
Bill Quigley | Posted 05.25.2011
Corporations are profiting from wars and lobbying politicians for more. The US, and the rest of the world, cannot afford the rising personal and financial costs of permanent war.
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama's State of the Union address this evening will be dissected by thousands of journalists across the nation. Panels of journalists and p...
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011
I can already hear the empty pandering to the middle class in President Obama's State of the Union speech. He will be reading one of the most well wri...
The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 05.18.2012