Lindsay Koshgarian - The New York Times
“Houses Passes Defense Bill in Rare Display of Unity to Salvage Shared Priority” (news article, Dec. 8) didn’t do justice to the sheer size of the Pentagon budget. After months of intense debate over the president’s Build Back Better, at $1.8 trillion over 10 years, a Pentagon budget with annual ...
Haili Blassingame - NPR
A $768 billion defense bill passed the House last week. Where is all this money going? And how could shifting national security concerns impact the future of military spending?
Fredricka Whitfield - CNN
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Dr. Jeffrey Sachs interview with Fredricka Whitfield on CNN Newsroom, Sunday, December 12, 2021.
Kenny Stancil - Common Dreams
"Congress must resist the demands of the military-industrial complex, and instead heed calls to invest taxpayer dollars into true human needs."
Kenny Stancil - Common Dreams
The Senate committee vote included $10 billion more than requested. "That's $100 billion over 10 years—or half the cost of universal pre-K, which we're told we can't afford," said one critic.
Luke Savage - Jacobin
The Pentagon’s bloated budget is a colossal waste of resources that could be better used elsewhere. But it’s also an outrage to democracy.
Ken Silva - Epoch Times
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released a report showing how the Pentagon can cut $1 trillion in spending by tweaking its national defense strategy.
Brett Wilkins - Common Dreams
"Saving a trillion dollars that could be devoted to preventing pandemics, addressing climate change, or reducing racial and economic injustice is no small matter."
Laurel Briar - The Garden Island
The Climate Crisis is the most-certain and the most-immediate of any of the threats the U.S. faces, including the military.
John Bachtell - People's World
Since Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. has spent a mindboggling $21 trillion on foreign and domestic militarization. Meanwhile, the entire Republican Party and a handful of centrist Democrats are trying to block or whittle down a $3.5 trillion human infrastructure bill that covers the next ten years because, they say, ...
