Lindsay Koshgarian - OtherWords
A dollar by dollar look at how our taxes enrich military contractors — at the expense of things that actually make us secure.
Lindsay Koshgarian - Truthout
All of that military funding comes at the direct cost of funding social programs and climate programs.
Lindsay Koshgarian - The Hill
The kind of mass destruction we’re seeing in Gaza is unimaginable to most of us in the United States. But we see suffering here too — in the form of homelessness, the opioid epidemic and increasingly common catastrophic weather events.
Lindsay Koshgarian - OtherWords
Conservative lawmakers calling for cuts should start with the agency that can’t account for $1.9 trillion — not the programs Americans rely on.
Alliyah Lusuegro, Lindsay Koshgarian - OtherWords
More than half of discretionary spending goes to the military. Only a tiny fraction addresses the most urgent threat to our security.
Lindsay Koshgarian - The Progressive
Republicans want to fill the defense bill with bans on abortion, trans health care, and racial diversity initiatives in the military.
Lindsay Koshgarian - Common Dreams
The world Eisenhower warned about has materialized. We need more members of Congress to stand up to the arms industry and fight for social investments instead.
Alliyah Lusuegro - OtherWords
Most of us understand the need to cut carbon emissions. But a huge share of our tax dollars are funding the most carbon-intensive institution on the planet.
Lindsay Koshgarian - The Messenger
There’s no price too high for the Pentagon, even while Washington claims the wealthiest country in the world apparently can’t afford to make sure all of its people have basic access to food, housing and health care.
Connor Echols - Responsible Statecraft
Lawmakers are planning to dodge caps on the Pentagon budget by adding billions for the military in ‘emergency’ legislation.
