The $95 billion foreign aid package approved by the U.S. Congress provides military aid to Ukraine and Israel, replenishes U.S. weapons systems and gives humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza
Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. U.S. president Joe Biden has told Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy the U.S. will send badly needed air defense weaponry once the Senate approves a massive national security aid package that includes $60-billion for Ukraine. The wait for more funding from the U.S. has dragged on for months, all while Russia continues to press ahead in […]
Global Military Spending Hits All-Time High Of $2.4 Trillion By Tim Martin at BreakingDefense Global military expenditure surged to a record $2.44 trillion in 2023, the largest year-on-year rise on weapons spending since 2009, according to a new Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) report. The report, published today, said that the new figure is an “all time high,” equivalent to a 6.8 percent increase on spending in 2022 and marking the ninth consecutive...
Alphabet Inc.'s Google has put more than two dozen employees on immediate
By Ari Natter (Bloomberg) –The US House passed new sanctions on Iran’s oil sector set to become part of a foreign-aid package, putting the measure on track to pass the Senate
Google has fired more than two dozen employees for protesting its $1.2 billion contract to provide the Israeli government and military with cloud and artificial intelligence services. Twenty-eight people were fired after nine employees were arrested Tuesday night following a sit-in at the company’s offices in Seattle, New York and Sunnyvale, California — including one at Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s office, according to the group that organized the demonstration, No Tech for Apartheid....
The plan that Democratic lawmakers supported features funding for various affordable housing programs, child care, nursing homes and more.
Yuval RosenbergApril 23, 2024We told you earlier this month that global defense spending had reached a record $2.2 trillion last year. A study
Total military spending by nations reached a record high of $2.443 trillion in 2023, according to a new report released Monday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, or SIPRI.Across the globe, military expenditures increased by 6.8% in real terms over 2022, the steepest rise since 2009, according to the Swedish think tank which has tracked the military spending by countries based on open sources since the 1960s. Every region saw an increase, but Europe, Asia and Oceania, and...
The US remains the world’s largest defense spender, outlaying $916 billion last year, a 2.3 percent annual increase, ahead of China in second place, which spent an estimated $296 billion, a 6 percent increase over the same period.
Google has fired 28 employees after they were involved in protests against Project Nimbus, project to provide the Israeli government with AI and cloud services.
April 21 (UPI) — Hamas, the Palestinian militia that controls Gaza, blasted the U.S. House of Representatives on Sunday after the legislature passed a massive aid package that includes tens of billions of dollars for Israel. The U.S. House passed the bill Saturday as House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., drew on Democratic support to push the $95 billion aid plan, […] The post Hamas condemns U.S. House for passing Israel aid package as alleged mass grave found first appeared on Gephardt Daily.