The Senate just passed a record-setting ‘national security’ budget, making Americans anything but safe.
The agreement reaffirms that the only truly bipartisan issue in Washington is militarism.
Why, despite decades of disastrous wars, do Pentagon budgets continue to grow, year after year, like ever-expanding nuclear mushroom clouds?
America doesn’t lack toughness — it lacks smarts. Selling more weapons to Ukraine or Taiwan isn’t the answer. Nor are constant threats.
No matter how moral you think you’re going to be…that morality is going to be crushed by the overall immorality of the war.
It’s easy to be gung-ho about the military. It’s also easy, I think, to dismiss military service with extreme prejudice.
Watch EMN Fellow Matthew Hoh on his return to Podcast By George to discuss the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, January 6th and Manufacturing Consent – for war.
The US supports nearly 75% of the world’s dictators, autocracies, monarchies, military regimes, etc., with weapons, military training and money.
Listen to EMN Fellow Christian Sorensen on WBAI News discuss how this NDAA is a record budget and why you should take the amendment to repeal the 2002 AMUF with more than a grain of salt.
“The problems I identified on a microscale in Afghanistan still exist on a macroscale in American foreign policy,” Edstrom said. “That is detrimental to not only soldiers, but to Americans, and the world.”