Under the new plan, London wants to spend a cumulative extra of £75 billion ($93 billion) over the next six years, culminating in a 2030 annual defense budget of £87 billion ($108 billion), which would make it second in NATO only to the US in defense expenditure.
THE BASICS: GO, DOG. GO! a musical by Allison Gregory and Steven Dietz, adapted from the book “Go, Dog. Go!” by P.D. Eastman, with music by Michael Koerner, directed by []
As rising global temperatures lead to less predictable weather patterns and more natural disasters, wildfires, droughts and floods, many people are looking for ways to shift to lower-carbon lifestyles. A major one, according to climate experts, is related to what we eat. Plant-based meats exploded onto the scene in a new way in 2020, with brands like Impossible and Beyond Meat rapidly growing their footprints in grocery stores and restaurants across the U.S. These products, most popular with...
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. Congress has approved $113 billion to aid the response. U.S. security assistance to support Ukraine is reinvigorating the U.S. defense industrial base and creating American jobs.
In this op-ed, Under Secretary of the Navy Erik Raven lays out why he believes Congress should support the service’s 2025 budget request.
The Defense Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Agency has announced that a soldier from Lee County has been accounted for after going missing during the Korean War in 1950.
Pokemon Go Community Days are hardly exciting for PvE players, as most featured species are only PvP-relevant. It's high time this changes.
The U.S.-China rivalry has a new flashpoint in the battle for technology supremacy: electric cars. So far, the U.S. is losing. Last year, China became the world’s foremost auto exporter, according to the China Passenger Car Assn., surpassing Japan with more than 5 million sales overseas. New energy vehicles accounted for about 25% of those exports, and more than half of those were created by Chinese brands, a shift from the traditional assembly role China has played for foreign automakers. “The...
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) As has been documented by such authorities on U.S. military spending as Winslow T. Wheeler, Robert Higgs, and others, America spends each year around $1.5 trillion for its military but hides at least around $800 billion of it (so as for the U.S. not to be publicly recognized as spending […]
The Tehran-backed Hezbollah terrorist organization announced on Tuesday that it has undertaken its deepest attack inside Israel since the start of the October war in Gaza. The militants stated that they had launched drones against an IDF base in the Acre area, an allegation that was denied by Israeli military officials. Officials did confirm that
Ukraine is facing hard choices as it decides who to call up to the fight against an all-out Russian invasion that has lasted more than two years.
Bay Area softball: In a pitchers’ duel featuring two of the CCS’s elite softball teams, heady baserunning is the difference