The Pentagon’s Blank Check, and the People Paying the Price

This May Day, workers are told there’s no money—unless you’re Boeing, Raytheon, or Big Oil.

On May Day, we honor the labor that builds nations, the workers who raise the steel, staff the hospitals, deliver the goods, and keep communities alive. But this year, May Day arrives under a shadow of deepening austerity. Services that feed the hungry, house the unhoused, and care for the sick are being gutted in the name of “efficiency.” Meanwhile, th…