Breaking! The US Congress just passed the massive almost 3,100-page National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) 2024: https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/fy24_ndaa_conference_report1.pdf

The 63rd annual NDAA increases military spending to $883.7 billion in fiscal year 2024. Note, the Defense Department just failed its 6^th consecutive audit: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-fails-audit-sixth-year-row-2023-11-16/ Scott Ritter’s analysis of US military budget “Why the Pentagon is a multitrillion-dollar fraud”: https://www.rt.com/news/588750-us-pentagon-failed-annual-audit/

*There is A LOT about NATO in the NDAA. However, there is very little in the NDAA 2024 on climate change and security. There is a significant provision to PROHIBIT required disclosure by Department of Defense contractors of information relating to greenhouse gas emissions. Defense contractors will NOT have to disclose their carbon emissions in contracts with the US DOD / government. (see page 2417, sec. 318).

*The NDAA also terminates the US Climate Security Advisory Council on December 31, 2025. (see page 2163, sec. 7319)

*The NDAA states that the “foreign adversaries are: China, Russia, Iran, Cuba, North Korea and Venezuela” (page 527). The NDAA also requires an update to warfighting requirements for confronting Russia in Europe (page 26).

*The WSW’s analysis of the NDAA declares “In bipartisan vote, US Congress authorizes record Pentagon budget: A blueprint for global war”: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/12/16/pqnx-d16.html

US defense policy greatly influences Canada. Canadian government just announced that it is dangerously boosting its military presence in Latvia on Russia’s border, Canada’s is leading and expanding a NATO brigade at its base outside of Riga: https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/news/2023/12/minister-blair-announces-measures-to-strengthen-canadas-military-presence-in-latvia.html

(Collection by Tamara Lorincz)