#warmongers #CapitalismKills #DefenseSpending #defensebudget #Greed #Corruption #militaryindustrialcomplex #capitalismisascam #CapitalismIsACult #NoMoreBillionaires

#Bipartisan #Carbonbombs: Freezing the #defensebudget makes far more sense than freezing #domesticspending, and would allow for #reevaluating the #OperationsAndMaintenance budget as well as setting #realisticpriorities in a hardware #budget out of control.
The simple fact is that mindless #militarization is being challenged by neither the #Congress nor #TheMedia.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/06/02/the-mainstream-medias-unwillingness-to-challenge-u-s-militarization/

#WarsForOil
#KeepItInTheGround
#HumanRightsNow

#DefenseSpending #defensebudget #TaxTheRich

#DefenseSpending #defensebudget #TaxTheRich #taxscam #waste

https://youtu.be/RsegoTSBWzI

READ MORE: https://likelytoday.com/china-to-boost-defense-spending-by-7-2-to-230-billion/

China to Boost Defense Spending by 7.2% to $230 Billion this year, according to a draft released by the Ministry of Finance. The increase brings China’s defense budget to 1.56 trillion yuan

#China #DefenseBudget #nuclear #superpower

China's 2023 defense budget to rise by 7.2 pct, remaining single-digit for 8th year.

The world's second largest economy's planned defense spending will be 1.5537 trillion yuan (about 224.79 billion U.S. dollars) this year, read the report on the draft central and local budgets submitted to the ongoing session of China's national legislature.

The figure for last year was 7.1 percent.

#TwoSessions #China #DefenseBudget

“The military branches are…..implementing the new congressionally mandated Basic Needs Allowance, which is designed to help active duty members with families make ends meet and address food insecurity.”

Or….raise E-1 to E-4 pay across the board? Why do they refuse to pay even a subsistence wage?

#military #DefenseBudget

https://www.militarytimes.com/pay-benefits/mil-money/2023/02/17/nearly-half-of-junior-enlisted-spouses-coped-with-food-insecurity/

Latest downed objects could well be ‘benign,’ US says https://apnews.com/article/aerial-objects-shot-down-lake-huron-8d60c429b1bf549a791434f8bd1bcc81? "Meanwhile, U.S. officials confirmed that a first #missile aimed at the object over Lake Huron landed instead in the water, but that a second one hit the target." The objects were likely "sky trash" according to news service Grid, which also notes each missile - including the miss - costs almost $500,000. #UFO #UAP #balloon #SpaceJunk #DefenseBudget

#DefenseSpending #defensebudget #Greed #Corruption

https://youtu.be/XHu33ChmUuI

"All told, more than half of this giant spending budget is going to for-profit companies (such as Lockheed, Raytheon, Boeing, General Dynamics, BAE, and Northrop Grumman) whose stock prices are surging. The profits are going into executive pay, shareholder dividends, and stock buybacks.

"This is the #military-industrial complex that Dwight Eisenhower warned of—on steroids.

"And yet, there's almost no debate. Why?"
#DefenseBudget #Pentagon

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/19/where-debate-over-bloated-immoral-pentagon-budget

If you want a good example of just how shallow the debate about defense strategy is in the United States, take a gander at how Congress “debated” and passed the NDAA last week. 90% of the debate was about numbers: how large the budget should be and which weapons systems should be purchased. No strategy debate at all, really. #DefenseBudget #DefenseSpending #Pentagon #NDAA #MerryChristmasToThePentagon

If you want a good example of just how shallow the debate about defense strategy is in the United States, take a gander at how Congress “debated” and passed the NDAA last week. 90% of the debate was about numbers: how large the budget should be and which weapons systems should be purchased. No strattgy debate at all, really. #DefenseBudget #DefenseSpending #Pentagon #NDAA #MerryChristmasToThePentagon

“The Japanese cabinet approved the first update to the country’s official security strategy in nine years, elevating Beijing over North Korea as the top threat.” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/16/world/asia/japan-national-security-strategy.html

#japan #defense #japandefense #military #northkorea #china #beijing #defensebudget #defensespending