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Cut Pentagon’s $740 Billion Budget by 10% and Invest in Public Health

July 14, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The money pit. (DOD)

At more than $740 billion this year, the Pentagon budget is more than 100 times the budget of the CDC — and more than 1,800 times the U.S. contribution to the World Health Organization that the president has promised to cut.

Transgender Ban in Military Is About Bigotry and Distraction, Not Readiness or Cost

January 24, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Trump is using the ban purely to provoke the left, throw red meat to his base, and distract us all from the real issues in our nation, like the government shutdown.

Questioning War Is No Disrespect to Veterans. It’s a Civic Duty.

June 5, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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Americans remain unconcerned about wars the U.S. is currently fighting (at last count, we’re bombing at least 7 countries) though they foot the bill both in tax dollars and lives.

Ranks of Notorious Hate Group Include Active-Duty Military With Advanced Weapons Training

May 6, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

A scene from the Unite the Right rally in Charlottseville last summer. (Rodney Dunning)

A Marine who took part in the violent assaults in Charlottesville last summer underscores involvement of current or former service members in white supremacist groups, long a concern.

Military Inferiority Complex:
Dear Leader Wants A Parade

February 9, 2018 | Pierre Tristam | 56 Comments

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The military doesn’t need parades. It needs to come home. Worshipping it in time of endlessly losing wars only locks and loads more cannon fodder.

2nd Only to Texas With Military Retirees, Florida Facing Stiff Competition For Them

August 10, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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Military retirees are some of the best-educated, best-trained and youngest retirees around. Florida has nearly 200,000 of them. States are using their tax codes to lure them.

Flagler Briefly Pauses On 100th Anniversary Year of the War that Led to Veterans Day

November 11, 2014 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

County Commission Chairman George Hanns, an Army sergeant, was master of ceremonies at today's commemoration of Veterans Day. (© FlaglerLive)

The commemoration of Veterans Day this morning in Bunnell featured a Florida Army National Guard commander who traced the conflict-ridden history of the day since its inception at the end of World War I.

Colossal Waste: U.S. Aid to Afghanistan Now Exceeds Marshall Plan, With Little Return

October 3, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Adjusted for inflation, U.S. appropriations for the reconstruction of Afghanistan exceed the funds committed to the Marshall Plan, the U.S. aid program that delivered billions of dollars between 1948 and 1952 to help 16 European countries recover in the aftermath of World War II.

Lockheed’s F-35 Stealth Fighter: A $1.5 Trillion Waste of Tax Dollars

October 1, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

With a projected eye-popping price tag of up to $344.8 million each, the F-35 is almost 8 years behind schedule, billions over budget and not yet combat-ready. And it’s bleeding the Treasury.

Do Kiss, Do Tell, Do Show

March 9, 2012 | Pierre Tristam | 50 Comments

The homecoming picture of the gay Marine kissing his boyfriend has the same iconic feel as Alfred Eisenstaedt’s Life magazine shot of the sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J Day. Both images capture the essence of liberation on a large scale.

Offshoring War: How Obama—and Those Moments of Silence—Insult Military Sacrifice

November 13, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 13 Comments

When a president sends soldiers to die in a war that long ago ceased having a claim to being just or to being won, those Americans are no longer being sacrificed by their nation. They’re being murdered. The complicity is national.

Election Primer: Amendment 2 Loop-Holes a Tax Exemption for Soldiers in War Zones

October 14, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Amendment 2 would give soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan (or future war zones) a property tax exemption but only if they own homesteaded property. The amendment is more controversial than you’d expect.

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