By Bill French August 2015 The National Security Network (NSN) is pleased to release a new policy report, Thunder without Lightning: The High Costs and Limited Benefits of the F-35. According to our analysis, the F-35 lacks the capabilities to execute its primary mission, and costs too much relative to its predecessors. The Department of […]
Sarah Sicard January 14, 2016 Though Sen. Bernie Sanders advocates for spending cuts, he also supports the costliest program ever funded. Democratic candidate for president and Vermont senator, Bernie Sanders, seems to have contradictory policies regarding the Defense Department. Within his platform regarding the military, he suggests that the U.S. military spends too much money […]
Tim Mak February 9, 2016 MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — Sen. Bernie Sanders has railed against big defense corporations at rallies, but he has a more complex history with the military-industrial complex. Most notably, he’s supported a $1.2 trillion stealth fighter that’s considered by many to be one of the bigger boondoggles in Pentagon history. Sanders […]
By Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry January 27, 2016 The F-35 is an absolute disaster, and it needs to go. The scandals around it are legion. The supersonic stealth plane called the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter was supposed to be the greatest and best military plane the world has ever seen. While the United States’ stealthy F-22 is […]
By Bruce S. Post FEB. 1, 2016 The passionate disagreements about the F-35 and industrial wind share a commonality: the meaning of home. “Home is the place,” wrote Robert Frost, “where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” Home and hearth are rooted in our soul, private places of respite […]
BY MORGAN TRUE November 10, 2015 SOUTH BURLINGTON — Close to 150 residents packed the gymnasium at the Chamberlin Elementary School on Monday night to take a first look at new noise exposure maps drafted by the Burlington International Airport. The noise maps were last updated in 2006, and the draft maps released Monday are […]
by JEFFREY ST. CLAIR NOVEMBER 13, 2015 As Clintons are wont to do, Hillary laid a political trap and Bernie Sanders, in his Schlemiel-like way, stumbled right into it. In the wake of Jeremy Corbyn’s smashing victory as the new leader of Britain’s Labour Party, Hillary’s super-PAC, Correct the Record, tarred Sanders as a Corbyn-lite […]
From: “U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders” <[email protected]> Date: November 9, 2015, 5:41:22 PM EST Subject: Email from Senator Sanders Thank you for contacting me about the U.S. Air Force’s decision to base the F-35 Joint Strike Fighters in South Burlington. I appreciate the opportunity to respond to your concerns on this very important issue. Let me […]
By Phillip Swarts October 5, 2015 Some pilots who have flown the F-35 Lightning II say its capabilities are “unmatched.” “This is by far the easiest airplane I’ve ever flown in my life,” said Col. Todd Canterbury, chief of the F-35 Integration Office Operations Division, during a Sept. 18 showing of the aircraft at Joint […]
By Phillip Swarts October 5, 2015 Air Force leaders are telling airmen to “explain why we need the F-35,” according to a leaked internal document from Secretary Deborah Lee James’ office. The eight-page internal memo, marked “Not for Public Release,” gives airmen a step-by-step guide on how to “debunk false narratives and inaccuracies reflected in […]