As the US prepares for Election Day, the consequences of the vote are drawing nigh. The election results, however they are reported and certified (certification itself looms in the days following the election), the nation will no longer be the same on November 6th… It is time to ask what is truly on the ballot. […]
Category: U.S. House of Representatives
Dems Re-Intro Bill to Prevent Nuclear First Use

Another legislative attempt to bring sanity into nuclear weapons policy. Being ‘on the brink’ of disaster is not rational policy. A new nuclear arms race is accelerating. Threats and chaos dominate U.S. foreign policy. Risks are multiplying and strategic opportunities lost in clicks of daily crisis. It is time to change course …
Year-Over-Year US Defense Spending … Unsustainable

Fact: Decades of war across the globe produce trillions of dollars of debt and historic spending levels … a $696.5 billion defense bill passes … 18.7% year-over-year growth … though the Pentagon is the only federal department unable to conduct and pass a financial audit … this is unsustainable
Republicans in Congress, A Vote to Block National Security?

How can last week’s action by the US House of Representatives Republican majority to block the Pentagon’s national security work be described? Experts are attempting to decipher the straight party line vote and consequences of the Grand Old Party/GOP denial of real and rising threats to the nation’s security