If it passes, the Reed/Inhofe amendment invoking wartime emergency spending powers will give the merchants of death what they are looking for, write Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies.
Opening the Floodgates for Profiteers of War
Tag: emergency powers
LEE CAMP: Four Reasons the Ruling Elite Love This Crisis
While monumental shocks currently pound citizens around the world, an orgiastic festival of exploitation is underway.
COVID-19: DOJ Seeks to Exploit Emergency to Detain People Indefinitely
Trump’s Department of Justice is asking Congress to allow the attorney general to indefinitely detain people without trial in violation of the constitutional right of habeas corpus, writes Marjorie Cohn.