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 Congress has spoken when it comes to next year’s Pentagon budget and the results, if they weren’t so in line with past practices, should astonish us all.

Honestly, if you had described this America to me more than half a century ago, I would have laughed in your face.Donald Trump becoming president? You must be kidding! If you want a bizarre image, just imagine him in the company of Abraham Lincoln. I mean, really, what’s happened to us? BY Tom Engelhardt 

Inflation has been on the rise in the United States, hitting a four decade high of more than nine percent, leaving many Americans with no choice but to dig deeper into their finances just to pay for gasoline, food, healthcare and rent.

I was born into another world, a year before the end of the Second World War. And in that world, my mother was something of a rarity.

This March, when the Biden administration presented a staggering $813 billion proposal for “national defense,” it was hard to imagine a budget that could go significantly higher or be more generous to the denizens of the military-industrial complex.