Tag: Congress



Three decades after the Cold War officially ended, the U.S. is setting a new record high for annual expenditure on its armed forces.

Earlier this month, Representative Adam Schiff was reported to have doctored a text message between former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Republican representative Jim Jordan in the ongoing investigations of the House January 6 Committee. This report should hardly come as a surprise.

Every year or so, I listen again to Eisenhower’s military-industrial complex speech. In his spirit, we should all call on Congress to stop the madness of ever-mushrooming war budgets and substitute for them the pursuit of peace through wisdom and restraint.

The money rolls in, but it is a strange and murky scene, Brian Cloughley writes.