- U.S. accounts for 45% of world's military expenditure in ... http://www.allvoices.com/events/606943/stories 2 comments reddit.com
- This Map Shows Where in the World the U.S. Military Is Combatting Terrorism https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/map-shows-places-world-where-us-military-operates-180970997/ 14 comments politics
- The world's 10 most powerful armies...U.S. military budget over 3x that of nearest 'competitor'... http://www.thejournal.ie/these-are-the-10-most-powerful-armies-in-the-world-950108-jun2013/?utm_source=facebook_short 22 comments politics
- U.S. Military Aid to Israel...The world may be entering into a new depression, however, the billions flow unabated to our ally. http://counterpunch.com/christison03052009.html 3 comments reddit.com
- Russia Asks Why It Should Leave Venezuela When U.S. Military Bases Cover ‘the Whole World’ https://www.newsweek.com/russia-venezuela-us-base-military-1385574 168 comments politics
- John Bolton Warns Against 'Debilitating Cuts' To U.S. War Budget - "Hollowing out America’s military would be a catastrophic mistake in a dangerous world." http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/08/16/stop-fy-2012-defense-budget-train-wreck/ 6 comments politics
- Japan will not apologize again for its World War II military brothels, even if the U.S. Congress passes a resolution demanding it http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-03-05-japan-sex-slaves_n.htm 8 comments reddit.com
- U.S. Military Spending Is Out Of Control: 12 Facts That Show That We Cannot Afford To Be The Police Of The World http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/u-s-military-spending-is-out-of-control-12-facts-that-show-that-we-cannot-afford-to-be-the-police-of-the-world 5 comments economy
- In announcing the world that Damascus uses chemical weapons, the U.S. began military preparations at Syrian border http://vz.ru/politics/2013/6/15/637347.html 4 comments worldnews
- Alexander the Great, one of the greatest military conquerors in world history, would not be allowed to serve in the U.S. military today. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/politics/12/09/senate.dadt.vote/ 4 comments reddit.com
- Environmentalists Are Ignoring the Elephant In the Room: U.S. Military Is the World’s Largest Polluter - The US Department of Defence is one of the world’s worst polluters, its footprint dwarfs that of any corporation. http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2017/05/environmentalists-ignoring-elephant-room-u-s-military-worlds-largest-polluter.html 10 comments worldnews
- Where in the World is the U.S. Military? "The United States... maintains nearly 800 military bases in more than 70 countries and territories abroad" http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/us-military-bases-around-the-world-119321 23 comments politics
- Vladimir Putin: “I invite you to publish a world map and mark all the U.S. military bases on it. You will see the difference (between Russia and the U.S.).” http://www.corriere.it/english/15_giugno_07/vladimir-putin-interview-to-the-italian-newspaper-corriere-sera-44c5a66c-0d12-11e5-8612-1eda5b996824.shtml 8477 comments worldnews
- U.S. military veteran receives world's first total penis and scrotum transplant https://usat.ly/2vdm2nt 4 comments science
- U.S. sends more troops, pledges $25 million in military aid to Baghdad, Kurds - World Tribune | World Tribune http://www.worldtribune.com/2014/09/14/u-s-add-475-troops-iraq-force-pledges-25-million-military-aid-baghdad-kurds/ 3 comments worldnews
- TIL During World War II, the U.S. military designed a grenade to be the size and weightof a baseball, since "any young American man should be able to properly throw it." https://www.thebalancecareers.com/thermite-grenades-intense-heat-3357261 8 comments baseball
- North Korea says U.S. 'has not given up' plans to rule world with Military Budget targeting Russia and China http://www.newsweek.com/north-korea-says-us-has-not-given-plans-rule-world-military-budget-russia-931669 43 comments politics
- Russian state media begins openly calling direct military action against the United States. "Blum to Sputnik: World Should Deliver Strong Military Blow to U.S." http://sputniknews.com/us/20150527/1022588691.html 3 comments geopolitics
- More than six of ten Americans say it’s important for the U.S. to be the top military power in the world, according to a recent Gallup poll. http://www.readthespirit.com/ourvalues/our-military-how-important-is-being-number-1/ 41 comments moderatepolitics
- Out-of-control U.S. military machine -- "In constant dollars, next year's proposed military budget will be the largest since World War II--around $700 billion" http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080303/editors 38 comments politics
- How to Get Rid of a Dictator | Killing Gaddafi (2022) - How a military campaign in Libya, for a time spearheaded by Nicolas Sarkozy, David Cameron and Barack Obama, was in fact part of the strategy for regime change in the Arab-Muslim world, decided by the U.S. since 9/11. [00:50:14] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpDu6ztXSDU 400 comments documentaries
- Multiple branches of the U.S. military have bought access to a powerful internet monitoring tool that claims to cover over 90% of the world’s internet traffic, and which in some cases provides access to people’s email data, browsing history, and other sensitive information https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3pnkw/us-military-bought-mass-monitoring-augury-team-cymru-browsing-email-data 154 comments futurology
- After defeating Islamic State, officials must focus on stabilizing Iraq, experts say. The U.S. is expected to pledge $2 billion to Iraq from governments around the world, but this money will need to be distributed to efforts other than to military in order to stabilize Iraq. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/24/after-defeating-islamic-state-officials-must-focus/? 22 comments worldnews
- Judge orders release of military detainee abuse photos - The U.S. must release photographs showing abuse of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, a federal judge has ruled in a long-running clash over letting the world see potentially disturbing images of how the military treated prisoners http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/03/21/detainee-photos-release-order/25132243/ 229 comments worldnews
- New Senate Armed Services chairman McCain blasts Obama, military cuts - “We are on track to cut $1 trillion from defense budget by 2021” even as the world order unravels and U.S. security is imperiled, McCain said. http://www.stripes.com/new-senate-armed-services-chairman-mccain-blasts-obama-military-cuts-1.324980 6 comments politics
- U.S. Military Bases Threatened by Climate Change | Thousands of military facilities across the world are threatened by rising sea levels, ocean temperatures and increasing storm frequency brought on by climate change. http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/articles/2014/07/01/us-military-bases-threatened-climate-change 3 comments politics
- "After a successful effort to reform the military’s World War II-era military criminal justice system, U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill is planning to set her sights on a new theater in her battle against sexual assault: College campuses." http://politicmo.com/2014/03/17/the-next-front-in-mccaskills-sexual-assault-fight-college-campuses/ 4 comments politics
- So, if U.S. troops aren’t protecting the rights and freedom of the American people, then what are they killing all those people for? The answer is simple: they’re killing in order to maintain the U.S. govt’s political and military dominance in other parts of the world. http://fff.org/2013/01/29/no-the-troops-are-not-protecting-our-rights-and-freedoms/ 4 comments politics
- Military Subcontractors Bribing U.S. Personnel With Prostitutes? The Shady World of War Contracting in Afghanistan and Iraq. "Taxpayer cash is flowing to subcontractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, who engage in shady, illegal practices with few repercussions." http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/148019 4 comments politics
- Why does the U.S. continue its incredibly problematic aid program to Pakistan? It is ineffective against terrorism, it helps to prop up Musharraf’s military regime, and it makes the world less stable. http://www.theseminal.com/2007/12/24/conversation-pakistan-no-8%E2%80%94rethinking-us-aid-to-pakistan/ 7 comments politics
- U.S. tanks, planes and ships guzzle 340,000 barrels of oil a day, making the American military the single-largest purchaser and consumer of oil in the world. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyid=16281892 25 comments politics
- Protests Erupt Over Plan to Move 'Dangerous' U.S. Base in Okinawa - Okinawa was the site of bloody battles near the end of World War Two which left almost 100,000 civilians dead, and many locals resent hosting the U.S. military at all. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/okinawa-relocation-u-s-military-base-triggers-protests-n453486 9 comments worldnews
- China Military Official Blasts U.S. 'Hegemony' at Shangri-La Security Conference: China asserted a bold vision of itself as the pre-eminent power in East Asia, sparring with the U.S. at a meeting of the world's top defense officials and inflaming tensions with its less-powerful neighbors http://online.wsj.com/articles/china-military-official-blasts-u-s-hegemony-at-shangri-la-security-conference-1401648136 14 comments worldnews
- This year, U.S. will spend $700 billion on defense and security. Adjusting for inflation, that's more than America has spent on defense in any year since World War II -- more than during the Korean war, the Vietnam war, or the Reagan military buildup http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/magazine/79066/waste-defense-spending-america-pentagon?page=0,0&passthru=ywq5mzdkzmrkotk4otgyytrhywu5odm1zme4ndgzmgm&utm_source=editors%20and%20bloggers&utm_campaign=b5e820113d-edit_and_blogs&utm_medium=email 26 comments politics
- PROBLEM: Military chaplains and chaplain endorsed organizations seek to use the U.S. military as the vehicle to transform the nation and the world for 'Christ' --- Camp David Chaplain: "First we get the military, then we get the nation" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-rodda/camp-david-chaplain-first_b_222464.html 6 comments politics
- The U.S. Military Is Destroying the Environment. "A June report from Brown University’s Costs of War project reveals 'the DOD is the world’s largest institutional user of petroleum and correspondingly, the single largest producer of greenhouse gases in the world'. A similar study released..." https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-u-s-military-is-destroying-the-environment/ 3 comments environment
- U.S. opposition to breast-feeding resolution stuns World Health officials: If Ecuador refused to drop the WHO resolution encouraging breast-feeding, Washington threatened to unleash punishing trade measures and withdraw crucial military aid from the country https://nytimes.com/2018/07/08/health/world-health-breastfeeding-ecuador-trump.html 89 comments worldnews
- Even as a decorated former combat pilot in the Second World War, Senator McGovern would remain a strident and unabashed voice against what he viewed as the all-too-frequent U.S. military involvement in global conflicts until his death. http://borderlessnewsandviews.com/2012/10/george-mcgovern-statesman-american-hero-dies-at-90/ 5 comments politics
- Romney Wants To Continue Aghan War Past 2014 - Mitt Romney offered harsh criticism of a plan outlined by Leon Panetta to possibly withdraw U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan in 2013, calling the administration's decision to announce its military plans to the world "misguided" and "naive." http://news.yahoo.com/mitt-romney-calls-leon-panettas-afghanistan-withdrawal-announcement-034650994--abc-news.html 10 comments politics
- The U.S. capitalizes on prisons. Prisoners work for slave wages at 23 cents an hour producing at large military equipment and arms. The condition of work is dangerous, toxic and unprotected. The U.S. population of prisoners is larger than any in the world http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25376 395 comments politics