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, ...
Rose Aguilar - KALW Public Radio
Since the 9/11 attacks, the US has spent more than $21 trillion on militarization, surveillance, and repression, all in the name of security, according to the Institute for Policy Studies’ report, State of Insecurity: The Cost of Militarization Since 9/11.
Mehdi Hasan - MSNBC
NBC’s Mehdi Hasan spoke to Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore about his infamous 2003 Oscar speech, accountability in the ‘War on Terror,’ military spending, and President Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Marjorie Cohn - Truthout
A drone flies over the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 31, 2021.
Kenny Stancil - Common Dreams
The latest passage of the NDAA "is particularly strong evidence that Pentagon contractors' interests easily take precedence over national security and the public interest for too many members of Congress," said one critic.
Kelly Denton-Borhaug - Tom Dispatch
Accountability and the war of terror.
Carley Towne - Common Dreams
Twenty years after the United States invasion of Afghanistan, the peace activists and feminists who opposed the war from the beginning were proven right. Now, let’s listen to them and slash the Pentagon budget to reinvest in our communities.
Peter Isackson - Fair Observer
Establishment Democrats want their military spending supersized and their domestic spending bite-sized.
Jonathan Chang, Meghna Chakrabarti - WBUR
The U.S. defense budget is more than $700 billion dollars. How efficiently are those dollars being spent? Congress keeps appropriating more to the Pentagon. But some lawmakers say it's time for a different approach.
