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military spending

  • RFK Jr. Says US Should ‘Vastly Scale Back’ Its Military Budget
    RFK Jr. Says US Should ‘Vastly Scale Back’ Its Military Budget
    The independent presidential candidate vowed to cut military spending by 50 percent and reallocate that money to domestic programs.
    June 14, 2024BY Jeff Louderback
  • GOP Senator Pushes for Significant Defense Spending Boost to Counter Adversaries
    GOP Senator Pushes for Significant Defense Spending Boost to Counter Adversaries
    'The best way to avoid further conflict is to be ready. Today’s security challenges demand a generational investment ...
    May 30, 2024BY Aaron Pan
  • Global Military Spending Hits a Record High of $2.44 Trillion: Report
    Global Military Spending Hits a Record High of $2.44 Trillion: Report
    Countries around the world spent an “all-time high” of $2.44 trillion on their militaries in 2023, according to ...
    April 24, 2024BY Frank Fang
  • Growing Number of Canadians Want Ottawa to Meet NATO Military Spending Target: Poll
    Growing Number of Canadians Want Ottawa to Meet NATO Military Spending Target: Poll
    Canadians are increasingly identifying military spending as a priority with more than half of the voting age public ...
    March 5, 2024BY Jennifer Cowan
  • Europe Meeting Defense Target, NATO Chief Says, After Trump Criticism
    Europe Meeting Defense Target, NATO Chief Says, After Trump Criticism
    NATO's European member-states are poised to invest a combined total of $380 billion on defense this year, according ...
    February 14, 2024BY Kos Temenes
  • Why Did Australia Refuse to Send a Single Ship to the Red Sea?
    Why Did Australia Refuse to Send a Single Ship to the Red Sea?
    President Joe Biden’s surrogates asked for just one ship—not an unprecedented request. Why did we refuse?
    January 5, 2024BY Graham Young
  • John Robson: 5 Key Policy Improvements Ottawa Should Make in 2024
    John Robson: 5 Key Policy Improvements Ottawa Should Make in 2024
    Commentary In my last column of the year, I consigned 2023 to the trash can of history with ...
    January 1, 2024BY John Robson
  • Exiting American NORAD Commander says Canada, US Too Slow to Adapt to Threats
    Exiting American NORAD Commander says Canada, US Too Slow to Adapt to Threats
    In a world of uncertainty, there is one critical mission the North American Aerospace Defence Command can count ...
    December 21, 2023BY The Canadian Press
  • Defense Expert: America’s Ability to Defend Itself Declining as Result of Several Bad Choices
    Defense Expert: America’s Ability to Defend Itself Declining as Result of Several Bad Choices
    Commentary The U.S. military’s ability to defend this nation and her interests is declining by choice, and that is creating ...
    September 20, 2023BY Lucy Gilbert and Sara Garstka
  • Biden Threatens Veto of Veterans, Agriculture Bills Over GOP Spending Cuts
    Biden Threatens Veto of Veterans, Agriculture Bills Over GOP Spending Cuts
    President Joe Biden will veto the first two appropriations bills to be voted on by the House if ...
    July 24, 2023BY Lawrence Wilson
  • 64 Percent of Canadians Favour Increasing Defence Spending to Meet NATO Target: Poll
    64 Percent of Canadians Favour Increasing Defence Spending to Meet NATO Target: Poll
    About two in three Canadians say they would prefer increasing defence spending to reach the 2 percent target ...
    May 8, 2023BY Isaac Teo
  • New Zealand Defence Force to Receive Biggest Pay Increase ‘In Decades’ as Personnel Leave in Droves
    New Zealand Defence Force to Receive Biggest Pay Increase ‘In Decades’ as Personnel Leave in Droves
    New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) personnel are getting the biggest pay rise in over a decade in an ...
    May 8, 2023BY Rebecca Zhu
  • War in Ukraine Pushes for Higher Global Military Spending: Swedish Think Tank
    War in Ukraine Pushes for Higher Global Military Spending: Swedish Think Tank
    Military spending worldwide has increased for an eighth consecutive year in 2022 to reach $2.2 trillion, levels never ...
    April 24, 2023BY Efthymis Oraiopoulos
  • Canada’s National Defence in Peril With Inadequate Spending: Former Defence Ministers
    Canada’s National Defence in Peril With Inadequate Spending: Former Defence Ministers
    An open letter, signed by former defence ministers among more than 60 former senior public servants and military ...
    April 23, 2023BY Marnie Cathcart
  • CCP’s Top ‘Two Sessions’ Political Meeting Kicks Off: Sets Lower GDP Target, Increases Military Spending
    CCP’s Top ‘Two Sessions’ Political Meeting Kicks Off: Sets Lower GDP Target, Increases Military Spending
    The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 2023 Two Sessions top political meeting started on Saturday, March 4, and is ...
    March 5, 2023BY Alex Wu
  • Canada Faces Fresh Pressure on Military Spending as NATO Chief Eyes Hard Target
    Canada Faces Fresh Pressure on Military Spending as NATO Chief Eyes Hard Target
    The head of NATO is raising the prospect of hard targets for military spending which could put more ...
    February 15, 2023BY The Canadian Press
  • ‘New Cold War’?: House Forms Committee on China Threat
    ‘New Cold War’?: House Forms Committee on China Threat
    House lawmakers say the United States must win a “new Cold War” with China. To do it, they’re ...
    December 9, 2022BY Tiffany Meier
  • Russian Invasion Prompts Military Spending Boosts
    Russian Invasion Prompts Military Spending Boosts
    Russia’s invasion in Ukraine is prompting military spending boosts in the West. But questions rise over whether war ...
    June 30, 2022BY Tiffany Meier
  • China’s Normalization of COVID-19 Testing Draws Wide Criticism
    China’s Normalization of COVID-19 Testing Draws Wide Criticism
    Megacities in China have been setting up COVID-19 nucleic acid "sampling circles" (testing sites) within 15 minutes walking ...
    June 4, 2022BY Alex Wu
  • Estimated Cost of China’s Mass COVID-19 Testing More Than Its Military Spending: Research
    Estimated Cost of China’s Mass COVID-19 Testing More Than Its Military Spending: Research
    Recent research results from China’s financial securities firms show that the estimated cost of the Chinese regime’s mass ...
    May 28, 2022BY Alex Wu
  • Sweden to Strengthen Military Infrastructure in Baltic Sea Amid Tensions With Russia
    Sweden to Strengthen Military Infrastructure in Baltic Sea Amid Tensions With Russia
    The Swedish government on Friday announced plans to allocate more than $160 million to further increase its military ...
    April 29, 2022BY Lorenz Duchamps
  • Proposed Biden Defense Budget Names China as ‘Primary Strategic Challenge’
    Proposed Biden Defense Budget Names China as ‘Primary Strategic Challenge’
    President Joe Biden’s proposed $813 billion national security spending request to Congress includes $773 billion in direct allocations ...
    March 30, 2022BY John Haughey
  • On Communist China’s Military Budget
    On Communist China’s Military Budget
    Commentary China seems to spend less on military spending, compared to the United States. But Beijing manipulates the ...
    November 2, 2021BY Morgan Deane
  • Military Contractors Raked in $4.4 Trillion Since 9/11: Study
    Military Contractors Raked in $4.4 Trillion Since 9/11: Study
    The Pentagon has spent some $14.1 trillion over the last 20 years, at least $4.4 trillion of which ...
    September 16, 2021BY Ken Silva
  • Is Taiwan on the Brink of Defeat?
    Is Taiwan on the Brink of Defeat?
    Commentary Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense (MND) dropped a bombshell last week when it presented an incredibly downbeat ...
    September 6, 2021BY Richard A. Bitzinger
  • Canada Jumps Closer to Military Spending Target Thanks to COVID 19’s Economic Damage
    Canada Jumps Closer to Military Spending Target Thanks to COVID 19’s Economic Damage
    OTTAWA—New figures from the NATO military alliance have revealed the tiniest of silver linings as COVID-19 wreaks havoc ...
    October 21, 2020BY The Canadian Press
  • Russia, Hit by Coronavirus Crisis, Considers Military Spending Cuts
    Russia, Hit by Coronavirus Crisis, Considers Military Spending Cuts
    MOSCOW—Russia is considering cutting spending on the military as low oil prices and the coronavirus crisis have pummeled ...
    July 21, 2020BY Reuters
TOP NEWS
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    NEW By T.J. Muscaro
    Trump on Iran Conflict: Troops Staying Until ‘We Have a Completion’
  • Israel Strikes Beirut Days After US-Supported Ceasefire Announcement
    3hr By Jack Phillips
    Israel Strikes Beirut Days After US-Supported Ceasefire Announcement
  • Former Utah Attorney General Fights the Evil That Lurks in Quiet Places
    3hr By Savannah Hulsey Pointer
    Former Utah Attorney General Fights the Evil That Lurks in Quiet Places
  • US Forces Shoot Down 2 Iranian Drones as Pakistani Interior Minister Visits Tehran
    5hr By Jacki Thrapp
    US Forces Shoot Down 2 Iranian Drones as Pakistani Interior Minister Visits Tehran
  • US Won’t Unfreeze Iran’s Assets Before Peace Deal Is Reached, Trump Says
    5hr By Jacki Thrapp
    US Won’t Unfreeze Iran’s Assets Before Peace Deal Is Reached, Trump Says
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    Fascia: The Living, Interconnected Web Behind Movement and Healing—How to Enhance Its Function
  • Eli Lilly Poised to Suspend Drug Discounts to Large Hospitals
    10hr By Lawrence Wilson
    Eli Lilly Poised to Suspend Drug Discounts to Large Hospitals
  • US Bankruptcy Filings Increase 7 Percent Yearly
    11hr By Naveen Athrappully
    US Bankruptcy Filings Increase 7 Percent Yearly
  • How a Tiny Insect Decimated Florida’s Citrus, and What Orchardists Are Doing About It
    12hr By Jacob Burg
    How a Tiny Insect Decimated Florida’s Citrus, and What Orchardists Are Doing About It
  • Treasury Department Seeks to Redirect Iranian Assets to Gulf Nations for War Damages
    17hr By Melanie Sun
    Treasury Department Seeks to Redirect Iranian Assets to Gulf Nations for War Damages
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