The True Cost of Oil
By Anita Dancs | May/June 2010
Oil creates huge costs because of pollution and global warming. But how much more do we, as taxpayers, have to pay for the U.S. military to secure and defend “our” oil? Read more »
Synergy in Security
By Tom Barry | March/April 2010
The military-industrial complex has morphed into a new type of public-private partnership that might be better called a “national security complex.” Read more »
Is Military Keynesianism the Solution?
By Heidi Garrett-Peltier | March/April 2010
At a time when unemployment in the domestic economy remains near 10%, it may seem convenient to fall back on the principle of military Keynesianism: War is good for the economy. But it’s not. Read more »
Fewer Guns! More Butter!
By Jill Mazzetta and Tillman Clark | March/April 2010
Mainstream media outlets have amplified the right-wing-populism du jour to the point where if the Tea Party phenomenon wasn’t a mass movement to begin with, it stands a chance of becoming one. What about left organizing? You might not hear about it on cable news, but there is plenty going on. Here are three nationwide campaigns fighting for federal action on unemployment and cuts in military spending. Read more »
Empire and Entitlements
By Arthur MacEwan | January/February 2010
In his book Colossus (2004), Niall Ferguson argues that a major problem with Social Security and Medicare is their underfunded liabilities—to the tune of $45 trillion. Can you comment on this claim? Read more »
War Spending Placed Above Domestic Priorities
By Monique Morrissey
The Bush administration has asked for significant increases in both war appropriations and regular defense appropriations for fiscal year '08. If Congress agrees to these requests, defense spending will resume its upward climb to between 4.3% and 5.0% of GDP in 2008. Read more »
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Iraqi Workers Strike to Keep their Oil
By David Bacon
The Bush administration has no love for unions anywhere,
but in Iraq it has a special reason for hating
them. They are the main opposition to the occupation's
economic agenda, and the biggest obstacle to
that agenda’s centerpiece—the privatization of Iraq's oil. Read more »
Muckraking Around the Globe
An Interview with Greg Palast
The BBC investigative journalist tells us about two radically different plans for Iraq within the Bush administration, the neo-cons' versus Big Oil's. Read more »
In Vieques, Puerto Rico, La Lucha Continua
By Liv Gold
Vieques, a small island seven miles off the coast of Puerto Rico, a was a U.S. aerial weapons testing ground for over 50 years and was the site of decades of struggle. The Navy finally deactivated in 2003, and now Carribean Edge magazine is marketing Vieques as a hot new tourist destination. Read more »
U.S. Military Spending and the Cost of the Wars
By Chris Sturr
The U.S. government is accelerating military spending even apart from its actual wars. Read more »
Space Wars
An Interview with Bruce Gagnon
The administration's proposal for human space exploration is designed to project U.S. military power into the skies. Read more »
The Real Winners
By Todd Tavares
Even as bombs were raining down on Baghdad, a short list of private beneficiaries was being drawn up behind closed doors. Here are the firms that benefited most from the reconstruction largesse. In fact, they may be the war's real winners. Read more »
In Harm's Way
By Rodney Ward
On any number of dimensions, the war in Iraq is hurting working people back home. The U.S. soldiers who return will find their benefits slashed and their prospects limited by continuing economic stagnation. The massive cost of the war and occupation robs resources from those who can least afford it and exacerbates federal and state budget crises. Read more »
Is It Oil?
By Arthur MacEwan
Is it oil and not weapons of mass destruction that motivates the U.S. government's aggressive policy towards Iraq? Read more »
War on the Earth
By Bob Feldman
The U.S. Department of Defense is the world's largest polluter. (Winner of a Project Censored award for one of the top 25 censored stories of 2004.) Read more »
Military Spending: Boon or Bane to the Economy? Two Views
By David Gold and James M. Cypher
Fewer Jobs, Slower Growth: Military Spending Drains the Economy | A Prop, Not a Burden: The U.S. Economy Relies on Militarism | Order this issue or subscribe.
Return of The Iron Triangle
By James M. Cypher
The post-September 11 era of military spending will allow the Pentagon to have its cake and eat it too—continuing major Cold War-era weapons systems and funding the cyber-age "Revolution in Military Affairs" (RMA). Read more »
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