Dear DOGE: Here’s How to Cut the Pentagon Budget by $100 Billion in Six Easy Steps

 

Dear DOGE: Here’s How to Cut the Pentagon Budget by $100 Billion in Six Easy Steps By Melissa Garriga America’s military budget is more than just numbers on a page—it’s a reflection of the priorities that shape our society. Right now, that nearly trillion dollar budget is bloated, inefficient, and far removed from the needs of everyday Americans. Read here

Russian Airbase Rescues 8,000 Syrians By Steven Sahiounie According to testimonies of some of those sheltering at the air base, they have not felt any pressure from the Russian military officials who have welcomed them and have not been forced to leave. Read here

Calls on Serbs to React: Time to Demand the Closure of the Bondsteel Military Base in Kosovo! Michel Chossudovsky By Serbian Times and Prof Michel Chossudovsky Chossudovsky emphasized to Tanjug that, in the case of the bombing of the FRY, the propaganda machine was well-organized, but that war was—brutal and ruthless—planned many years in advance, “which is confirmed, among other things, by the construction of the American Bondsteel military base on occupied Kosovo,” which, in his view, many see as a strategic pillar of the U.S. presence in this region. Read here

Do You Think You’ll Ever Know, Now That You Have Handed Your Mind to the Machine? By Edward Curtin We live in a 24/7 media society of the spectacle where brainwashing is cunning and relentless, and the consuming public is consumed with thoughts and perceptions filtered through electronic media according to the needs and lies of corporate state power. Read here

Fox News Media Blackout: Greenland Rejects Trump’s Offer to Become a De Facto Colony of the US By Timothy Alexander Guzman Despite the Greenlandic people voting in favor of independence and rejecting Trump’s agenda to control the island-nation, National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, US energy secretary, Chris Wright and J.D. Vance’s wife, Usha are set to visit Greenland and the locals are outraged.  Read here

USAID Funding Cuts in Moldova Shed Light on Country’s Dependence on “Shadow NATO” By Uriel Araujo For Moldovan NGOs, once buoyed by American dollars, the fallout has been immediate and quite severe. This disruption offers a chance to actually peel back the veneer of USAID’s benevolence and NATO’s looming influence, thereby revealing a more troubling reality—one of dependency, manipulation, and geopolitical overreach. Read here

What’s an Oscar Worth? Barbara Nimri Aziz By Barbara Nimri Aziz It was costly for British actor Vanessa Redgrave beginning in the 1970s, pilloried for her crime of speaking out on an unspeakable subject. She refused to back down, calling her adversaries ‘Zionist hooligans’. Yes, really! Forty years later, resolute in the face of a tenacious enmity, she retorted “I had to do my bit”, at the age of 81, still blacklisted by the entertainment industry, still under attack. Read here