{"id":24356,"date":"2022-12-03T12:33:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T20:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=24356"},"modified":"2022-12-03T12:33:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T20:33:28","slug":"millions-of-americans-lack-adequate-health-coverage-but-the-pentagon-has-a-new-nuclear-bomber-to-flaunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2022\/12\/03\/millions-of-americans-lack-adequate-health-coverage-but-the-pentagon-has-a-new-nuclear-bomber-to-flaunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions of Americans Lack Adequate Health Coverage, But the Pentagon Has a New Nuclear Bomber to Flaunt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/banner_image_1x_xl\/public\/2022-12\/B21-Radier.jpg?h=e2199468&amp;itok=MoN8Bjil\" alt=\"B-21 Raider\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A rendering from weapons company Northrop Grumman shows what the B-21 Raider bomber, set to be unveiled on December 2, 2022, could look like. (Image: Northrop Grumman)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;This\u00a0ominous death machine, with its price tag of $750 million a pop, brings huge profits to Northrop Grumman but takes our society one more step down the road of spiritual death,&#8221; peace activist Medea Benjamin said of the new B-21 Raider.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/article_author\/public\/2021-06\/brett-wilkins-200x200.jpg?h=55541bb6&amp;itok=st0jtEJy\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/author\/brett-wilkins\">BRETT WILKINS<\/a>  December 2, 2022  (CommonDreams.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Peace and economic justice<\/strong>&nbsp;advocates responded to the imminent unveiling Friday of the United States Air Force&#8217;s new $750 million-per-plane nuclear bomber by reiterating accusations of misplaced priorities in a nation where tens of millions of people&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/library\/publications\/2022\/demo\/p60-277.html\">live in poverty<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonwealthfund.org\/publications\/issue-briefs\/2022\/sep\/state-us-health-insurance-2022-biennial-survey\">lack<\/a>&nbsp;adequate healthcare coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Military-industrial complex giant Northrop Grumman is set to introduce its B-21 Raider on Friday. The B-21, whose development was 30 years in the making and whose total project cost is expected to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-11-17\/under-wraps-b-21-bomber-is-seen-costing-203-billion-into-2050s#xj4y7vzkg\">exceed $200 billion<\/a>, is tapped to replace the aging B-2 Spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;One thing the world definitely does not need is another stealth bomber,&#8221; Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the peace group CodePink, told&nbsp;<em>Common Dreams<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today is the day! We are thrilled to partner with the United States Air Force to reveal the B-21 Raider tonight. Tune in at 4:35 pm Pacific to watch the live event: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U2Who6wi3f\">https:\/\/t.co\/U2Who6wi3f<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DefiningPossible?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DefiningPossible<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RiseoftheRaider?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RiseoftheRaider<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/19PEVqIcau\">pic.twitter.com\/19PEVqIcau<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Northrop Grumman (@northropgrumman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/northropgrumman\/status\/1598678377845645313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This&nbsp;ominous death machine, with its price tag of $750 million a pop, brings huge profits to Northrop Grumman but takes our society one more step down the road of spiritual death,&#8221; Benjamin added, referring to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.&#8217;s 1967 anti-war&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AJhgXKGldUk\">speech<\/a>, &#8220;Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,&#8221; in which the civil rights leader called the U.S. government &#8220;the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Noting the B-21&#8217;s impending introduction, Canadian professor Christopher Stonebanks&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cd_stonebanks\/status\/1598179311944695808\">tweeted<\/a>&nbsp;on Wednesday: &#8220;Hey, how&#8217;s the good old USA doing on free healthcare, eliminating poverty, and accessible education for all? What? Oh, I see. They have a new stealth bomber. OK. And their citizens are good with that trade-off?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/IPS_DC\/status\/1598759319637557248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1598759319637557248%7Ctwgr%5Ed124d96c38719f53bd549f03ddddd7ebfd9d9d90%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.commondreams.org%2Fnews%2F2022%2F12%2F02%2Fmillions-americans-lack-adequate-health-coverage-pentagon-has-new-nuclear-bomber<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pentagon, which recently&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2022\/11\/not-the-progress-i-would-have-hoped-for-pentagon-fails-latest-financial-audit\/\">failed<\/a>&nbsp;its fifth consecutive annual audit, is slated to get $847 billion in 2023 after Congress rubber-stamps the next National Defense Authorization Act, possibly as soon as this month. That&#8217;s more than the combined military spending of China, India, the United Kingdom, Russia, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Japan, and South Korea,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalpriorities.org\/blog\/2022\/06\/22\/us-still-spends-more-military-next-nine-countries-combined\/\">according to<\/a>&nbsp;the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rendering from weapons company Northrop Grumman shows what the B-21 Raider bomber, set to be unveiled on December 2, 2022, could look like. 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