While many Americans were anxiously awaiting their $1,200 relief payments, the Department of Defense was expediting contract payments to the arms industry, writes Mandy Smithberger.
COVID-19: Beware the Pentagon’s Pandemic Profiteers
Category: Advanced Technologies
COVID-19: The Beginning of the End for Oil?
Michael T. Klare says a vast restructuring of the global energy enterprise is happening now.
US Drove Last Year’s Over $1.9 Trillion in Global Military Spending
Critics said the new data, coming in the middle of the pandemic, highlighted the need to prioritize real human needs, Jessica Corbett reports.
ASSANGE EXTRADITION: Espionage Act Reform Bill Would Protect Journalists Like Julian Assange
Kevin Gosztola reports on U.S. congressional legislation that would protect members of the press who solicit, obtain or publish government secrets.
COVID-19: Confucius is Winning the Coronavirus War
Compare hundreds of millions of Asians’ serene response to the coronavirus crisis with the West’s fear, panic and hysteria, writes Pepe Escobar.
COVID-19: Fighting Recession: Public Investment, Not Debt
It’s time to stop pretending that we can’t create money, says Andrew Spannaus. It already happens, just not in a way that helps the majority of citizens.
COVID-19: The Need for the World to Come out of Diplomatic Quarantine
Tony Kevin finds it remarkable that the U.S. and its partners are frozen in diplomatic quarantine while the pandemic afflicts countries around the globe.
COVID-19: Genome Analysis Suggests 2 Viruses May Have Combined
Alexandre Hassanin reports on the case for COVID-19 being a chimera between two pre-existing viruses.
Nuclear War Could Devastate US, Even if No One Shoots Back
Washington could only safely use a fraction of its arsenal without killing Americans with an unintended adverse series of cascading environmental effects, writes Joshua M. Pearce.
US & France Significantly Increase Arms Exports
Ida Karlsson reports on the findings of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which analyzed trends in weapons sales over the past five years.