How the United States Kept Arms Flowing into South Sudan
South Sudan faces several arms embargoes. How has the government continued to get weapons?
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Women’s Global Resistance Marks 2018
While the #MeToo movement has captured international attention, women have mobilized mass movements on women’s rights around the world in the past year at a scale never seen before.
The Long, Brutal U.S. War on Children in the Middle East
Why the movements that pressured the U.S. Senate to reject current U.S. foreign policy regarding Saudi Arabia and its war on Yemen must continue to raise their voices
America’s Post-9/11 Wars Have Cost $5.9 Trillion
Source: The Nation
Not to mention 240,000 civilian deaths and 21 million displaced. And yet a congressional commission is urging yet more money for a bloated Pentagon.
Just in time for next year’s Pentagon spending debate, a new report is calling for a huge increase in the Defense Department’s budget, which is already at one of the highest levels since World War II. The document was produced by the National Defense Strategy Commission, a congressionally mandated group charged with assessing the Trump administration’s new national-defense strategy.
Planet of War: The U.S. Military Prepares for Global Combat
With Pentagon budgets reaching record levels -- some $717 billion for 2019 -- Washington has stayed the course, while beginning to plan for more expansive future conflicts across the globe. Today, not a single square inch of this ever-warming planet of ours escapes the reach of U.S. militarization.
With Nearly 400,000 Dead in South Sudan, Will the U.S. Change Policy?
It's a war as brutal as the one in Syria. Will the Trump administration pay any serious attention to it?