Tell Congress: Cut the Bloated War Budget and Put America Back to Work.

Is Congress About To Put You Out of Work?

Now that the deficit committee failed, war profiteer CEOs are launching an all-out propaganda campaign to protect their profit margins. They and their allies in Washington are working to protect the massive, corruption-filled war budget by slashing social safety nets that help create jobs. This would be a disaster for our economy.

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Empire

The U.S. has more than 1,000 military bases worldwide and conducts military operations in 120 or more countries. More people serve in military bands than the total number foreign service officers serving in the State Department. Learn more.

Meet the 0.01 Percent: War Profiteers


While the Occupy movement targets the 1 Percent, we want to introduce you to the elite among the gang of superrich: the war profiteers. War industry CEOs make tens of millions of dollars a year, putting them in the top 0.01 percent of income earners in the U.S., and they use their corporations' massive lobbying dollars to keep their job-killing gravy train rolling. We've got to stop them.

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Media Lapdogs

The war industry and their government allies have willing collaborators among the major media outlets in the U.S. News shows allow pundits to argue for more war spending without noting they have a financial interest in such spending. Learn more.
 

Patriots

War Costs tells the story of people who blew the whistle on misconduct, and the people working to chart a better course for our country. Learn more.

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The latest 

Northrop Grumman and Boeing Spent a Ton of Your Money To Try to Avoid Paying Taxes. It Worked.

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Published: Wednesday, April 18th, 2012

We’ve been following the insane amount of our tax dollars that war industry companies use to lobby our Congress out from under us for a while, but the new Sunlight Foundation report just puts a cherry on top of this Tax Day. They’ve just published a report showing that the top eight companies spending the [...]

Not making enough as a Goldman Sachs CEO? Become a war profiteer instead.

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Published: Saturday, April 14th, 2012

The New York Times reports that Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein made $12 million last year, despite some ugly, but not illegal, behavior. Poor schmuck. He’s only making half what Lockheed Martin CEO Robert Stevens made last year. Lockheed Martin is the largest Pentagon contractor, getting 82 percent of its 2011 funds from the taxpayer. [...]

For the first time, most Republicans say Afghanistan War not worth fighting

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Published: Thursday, April 12th, 2012

In the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll, Republicans and Democrats both say the war isn’t worth fighting. It’s past time for President Obama to get our troops out of there. It’s not making us safer, and it’s not worth the costs.

Don’t Freak Out, But the Pentagon Just Took a Baby Step in the Right Direction on Military Pork

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Published: Thursday, April 12th, 2012

It’s not every day we get to write a headline like this, so we’ll just get right to it: The Pentagon has ended their annual ritual of porking up the final military budget through their list of “unfunded priorities.” See, usually, the Pentagon writes up a budget that conforms to the President’s overall request, but [...]

Pentagon Admits U.S./Afghan Night Raid Deal Is a Joke

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Published: Thursday, April 12th, 2012

The U.S. is publicly describing the deal with the Karzai administration on night raids as a big deal, but Pentagon spokespeople are crystal clear that the deal doesn’t give any new recognition to the right of Afghans to control their own affairs. From Stars and Stripes: “This is not about [giving Afghan officials] a veto [...]

Pretty Much Sums It Up

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Published: Wednesday, April 11th, 2012

Sorry’s Not Good Enough in Afghanistan. Here’s Why

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Published: Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

As violence continues following the burning of Qurans by ISAF in Afghanistan, insiders in Washington, D.C. and in the media are wasting quite a bit of breath asking the rhetorical question, “Why aren’t the apologies working?” Military commanders in Afghanistan apologized profusely, President Obama exposed himself to the demagoguery of Republican primary opponents with his [...]

No More “King-Washing” the Pentagon, Please

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Published: Monday, January 16th, 2012

“A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war, “This way of settling differences is not just.” This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of [...]

The Devil Is in the Details of the Pentagon’s Plan

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Published: Thursday, January 5th, 2012

Will super-rich war-industry CEOs be able to keep bilking taxpayers out of hundreds of billions of dollars? That’s the question everyone should be asking after today’s announcement of the new strategic guidelines for the Pentagon. With the new guidance promising only to slow — not reverse — the growth of the bloated military budget, there’s [...]

War Industry’s Accountants Can’t Count

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Published: Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

The war profiteers’ shady lobbying campaign took another hit to its credibility today, as an accounting firm on which they relied to support their bogus “military spending = jobs” argument was cited for severe audit deficiencies. As our new War Costs short video shows, the war industry’s Second To None lobbying effort specifically cited numbers [...]

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