Sanders was one of a number of critics who saw the Monday announcement that the White House won’t treat the settlements as illegal as another attack on the Palestinian people. 
— Read on www.commondreams.org/news/2019/11/18/trump-pandering-his-extremist-base-israeli-settlements-says-bernie-sanders

Why has the Republican Party become so thoroughly corrupt? The reason is historical — it goes back many decades — and, in a way, philosophical. The party is best understood as an insurgency that carried the seeds of its own corruption from the start.

— Read on medium.com/the-atlantic/the-corruption-of-the-republican-party-b5ad7a1aeaff

The Pentagon’s “Base” Budget: The Pentagon’s regular, or “base,” budget is slated to be $544.5 billion in Fiscal Year 2020, a healthy sum but only a modest down payment on total military spending.

As you might imagine, that base budget provides basic operating funds for the Department of Defense, much of which will actually be squandered on preparations for ongoing wars never authorized by Congress, overpriced weapons systems that aren’t actually needed, or outright waste, an expansive category that includes everything from cost overruns to unnecessary bureaucracy.
— Read on popularresistance.org/the-us-is-spending-1-25-trillion-annually-on-war/