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."
Rose Aguilar - KALW
On this edition of Your Call, we discuss ongoing negotiations over the debt ceiling.
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."
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.
Luke Savage - Jacobin
This year, the average American paid $1,087 in taxes just for Pentagon contractors alone. Imagine the kind of society we could construct with just a fraction of the resources we devote to war.
Michael Grothaus - Fast Company
Maybe you can’t get out of paying the Internal Revenue Service, but a little transparency never hurts.
