by Amy Goodman | Apr 7, 2026 | Budget, federal budget, Golden Dome, Interview, Iran, Israel, Military Industrial Complex, Military Spending, Pentagon
The White House is seeking a record-shattering Pentagon budget of $1.5 trillion for the next fiscal year, the largest year-over-year increase in a presidential military spending request since World War II. The United States already has the world’s largest military budget at roughly $1 trillion, more than the combined budgets of the next nine highest-spending countries. The Trump administration’s…
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by Ashley Gate | Nov 18, 2025 | Boeing, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Golden Dome, Lockheed Martin, Nuclear, nuclear arms race, Op-Ed, Pentagon, Raytheon, Trump Administration
Kathryn Bigelow’s new nuclear thriller, A House of Dynamite, has been criticized by some experts for being unrealistic, most notably because it portrays an unlikely scenario in which an adversary chooses to attack the United States with just a single nuclear-armed missile. Such a move would, of course, leave the vast American nuclear arsenal largely intact and so invite a devastating response that…
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