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It is time, therefore, to lay aside all the weasel-words and euphemisms that members of Western political elites have used in recent year to mask the realities of the nature of war.

“The opportunities to interfere in the election are just so rampant,” he added, reflecting on the dirt-cheap social-media manipulations that Russia made famous a few years ago, and “the barriers to entry for foreign governments have been blown apart.”

The planned merger between Raytheon and United Technologies will only further consolidate a bloated military-industrial complex.

Whatever the spin, whether of that revolving door or of the defense industry’s publicists, the bottom line couldn’t be clearer: if job creation is your metric of choice, Pentagon contractors are a bad taxpayer investment.

In short, the results show that confidence in Mueller’s objectivity, thoroughness and investigations of obstruction have remained relatively unchanged, overall, after his testimony.

Jenkins’s comments underscore the arms control community’s main concern: that fewer limitations on Russia and the US building more missiles could escalate to the point that tensions spike along with the chances of nuclear bombs going off.

Temi Ibirogba, the Program and Research Associate for CIP's Africa Program, is quoted in this piece on the U.S.' growing concern over Russian and Chinese influence in Africa.

Over the past 20 years, the increasing use of the term "humanitarian intervention" to mean military action has been accompanied by the efforts major Western governments have pursued to co-opt and distort the work of non-governmental organizations with previously long records of providing humanitarian aid on a relatively non-political basis.

Spend the money on the other two legs of the nuclear triad, and improve global stability and U.S. security.

The danger of politicization of intelligence has never been greater. We have civilian deference to the military community; unprecedented bipartisan support for bloated defense budgets; weak congressional oversight; and an “American First” strategy that has isolated the United States in many areas of the international arena.

"At $738 billion for fiscal year 2020 and $740 billion for fiscal year 2021," Hartung wrote, "the agreement pushes spending on the Pentagon and work on nuclear warheads at the Department of Energy to historic levels: higher than the peaks of the Korean and Vietnam wars and the Reagan buildup of the 1980s, and nearly twice the Cold War average."

The first CODEPINK radio show will be hosted by Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK, author, activist and peacemaker. Her show will address how Bolton and the Saudi’s are trying to drive the US to war with Iran. She will share stories from her recent trip to Iran and interview Ben Freeman from The Center for International Policy about the Saudi influence in Washington DC.