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Lindsay Koshgarian
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Budget Process,
Military & Security
The president's 2021 budget proposal, delivered today, would put 55% of the $1.3 trillion discretionary budget toward the military.
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Lindsay Koshgarian
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Health Care,
Military & Security
A blog from Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget took issue with my October 17 op-ed in the The New York Times, “We Don’t Need to Raise Taxes to Have ‘Medicare for All.’” They got a couple of important things wrong.
By
Lindsay Koshgarian
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Military & Security
It's time to call your Senator.
By
Sarah Anderson
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Military & Security
As long as we allow the top executives of our privatized war economy to reap unlimited rewards, the profit motive for war in Iran — or anywhere — will persist.
By
Lindsay Koshgarian
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Military & Security
By
John Feffer
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Military & Security
Trump’s not bringing the troops home. He’s been haphazardly deploying more troops, drones, and dollars abroad, while waging a shadow foreign policy for his own benefit.
By
Lindsay Koshgarian
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Budget Process,
Military & Security
Join us October 29 in Northampton, MA!
By
Ashik Siddique
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Military & Security
There are 127,586,000 households total in the U.S., according to the most recent Census. The cost of wind power for the average US household for one year is $581.28 as of 2018, and the cost for solar electiricty is $623.92. 127.59 million households × $581.28 (Cost per Household with Wind Power...
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Lindsay Koshgarian
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Military & Security
This week, Frances Crowe, the lifelong peace and anti-nuclear activist (among other causes), passed away. She was 100 years old, and she estimated that she’d been arrested for civil disobedience at least 100 times.
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Lindsay Koshgarian
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Budget Process,
Military & Security
In July, lawmakers voted along bipartisan lines to pass a budget deal (now also Trump-approved) that will fund the federal government for the next two years, and help the United States avoid a potentially catastrophic default on its debt for the same period. But the deal didn’t come cheap: it came at the price of an astoundingly high, $738 billion military budget.