Rev. William Barber and Rev. Liz Theoharis - Arkansas Times
If half of our population simply does not have the resources to prepare for a public health crisis, that isn’t only a danger to them. It’s bad news for all of us.
William Hartung - Forbes
The security of United States and the world depends on far more than throwing money at the Pentagon to deal with potential military challenges. The spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) underscores this fact.
Annie McDaniel - The Post and Courier
While primary candidates have ambitiously taken on many pressing issues impacting South Carolinians, there’s another thing I encourage them to address: an excessive Pentagon budget that prioritizes weapons over the needs of those who serve.
Bill Christofferson - Urban Milwaukee
Since 2001, the total cost of America’s wars just to county taxpayers was $10.68 billion.
John Orona - The Union
While some opponents may naturally say the money is needed to make sure the military is properly funded, the majority of military spending does not go toward U.S. military personnel.
James Goodman - Common Dreams
The demands of the new Poor People’s Campaign are far-reaching—from repealing restrictive voting state laws to revamping spending priorities away from the military and toward human needs. At the June 20 march on Washington, the poor will be heard.
Sarah Lazare - In These Times
It is deeply troubling to imagine the U.S. military—the world’s most violent institution, and itself a climate villain—taking a leadership role in shaping the response to a crisis that could subject countless people to illness, food insecurity, severe storms and human displacement. The NDAA language has no acknowledgement of climate victims except through the lens ...
Elizabeth Beavers - Inkstick Media
When we talk about hundreds of billions or even trillions of dollars, it’s easy to get lost in the massive numbers and to lose sight of what those changes in resources could really mean in the context of people’s lives. So here are some points of comparison to put it ...
Lindsay Koshgarian - Truthout
With Medicare for All or a Green New Deal, critics constantly ask: how can we possibly pay for it? Yet in the wake of the new Trump Budget, which makes the 2017 tax cuts permanent and guns Pentagon spending — who's asking how will Trump pay for it?
David Grossman - Inverse
Between 2010 and 2016, the Air Force took over $17 million from what’s known as the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) fund, which is ostensibly for wartime projects only. The nonprofit National Priorities Project refers to the OCO as a “slush fund for the military” with very little oversight.
