Jon Queally - Common Dreams
"Here's the news media's takeaway on the debt ceiling deal: Yay! Bipartisanship works! Here's the reality: GOP radicals held the economy hostage, Democrats paid the ransom, and bipartisanship is badly broken."
Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
The head of the major U.S. military contractor said the Pentagon top-line in the debt ceiling deal is "as good an outcome as our industry or our company could ask for at this point."
Chuck Mertz - This is Hell!
Lindsay Koshgarian and Ashik Siddique, co-authors of the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies report, “The Warfare State: How Funding for Militarism Compromises Our Welfare. Y
Brett Wilkins - Common Dreams
"We keep hearing that our government can't afford nice things—or necessary things—for everyone," said the paper's co-author. "Yet militarized spending in the U.S. has almost doubled over the past two decades."
Rose Aguilar - KALW
On this edition of Your Call, we discuss ongoing negotiations over the debt ceiling.
Peter Beinart - New York Times
Mr. Biden isn’t listening to ordinary Democrats on military spending, either. In March, he proposed lavishing more on defense, adjusted for inflation, than the United States did at the height of the last Cold War.
William D. Hartung and Ben Freeman - Tom Dispatch
The MIC is consuming many more tax dollars and feeding far larger weapons producers than when President Eisenhower first raised the alarm about the “unwarranted influence” it wielded in 1961.
Alex Lo - South China Morning Post
Without an ‘enemy’, no taxpayer would fork out an average US$1,087 for Pentagon contractors over US$270 for their children’s subpar education
Maya Schenwar - Truthout
Biden’s budget would increase sky-high military spending and expand the police — and Republican proposals are worse.
Bill Christofferson - Wisconsin Examiner
Earth Day is a time to reflect on the impact humans have on the environment and on how war and militarism are connected to and responsible for the biggest threat to the ecosystem and the world’s population — climate change.
