arms race – People's World

Why is there always money for war but never for people’s needs?

May 17, 2022 By Amiad Horowitz

Too many lawmakers from both parties have been bought and paid for by the military-industrial complex.

How to spend $19 billion: Canada chooses fighter jets over fossil fuel transition

April 7, 2022 By Dave McKee

F-35 fighter jet purchase could instead finance the conversion of 2/3 of fossil fuel electricity in two years.

Sanders: Spiraling military spending pushes nation toward ‘spiritual death’

January 4, 2022 By Tim Wheeler

Our once powerful anti-war movement that represented a majority of the American people, so strong it forced an end to the Vietnam War, is sleeping.

Nuclear weapons monitors demand environmental review of new bomb production plans

November 2, 2021 By Marilyn Bechtel

So far, the Biden administration’s request for $43.2 billion for the U.S. nuclear arsenal “modernization” follows the Trump administration’s spending patterns.

U.S. companies sold more than 60% of all arms in the international market in 2019

December 9, 2020 By Peoples Dispatch

U.S. sanctions against Russia and China have helped maintain its hegemony in the global arms trade with 12 of its companies featuring in the world’s top 25 arms producing and military service providers.