Tag: Federal Budget

Budget Woes Sign of a Dysfunctional Empire

February 13, 2018

Exclusive: The bloated military budget is justified on the assumption that the United States can and should police the entire world, but this approach is fundamentally unsustainable, warns Jonathan Marshall.

War Spending and the ‘Fiscal Cliff’

December 31, 2012

The short-term danger of the “fiscal cliff” may be resolved either before or after the New Year, but the longer-term threat to the Republic is the never-ending demand from the Military-Industrial Complex for more and more money to finance war…