Blog - /blog/2024/04/22/april-climate-and-war-linked-more-ever/
- ...war. That’s a huge mistake.
Blog - /blog/2023/11/21/pentagon-fails-its-sixth-audit/
- There is an entity whose job it is to prevent this sort of abuse: Congress. With each failure at the Pentagon, Congress is failing, too.
Blog - /blog/2023/04/19/breaking-down-your-tax-bill/
- Our tax dollars should make life better, not go to waste. But the average taxpayer had to shell out over $1,000 for military contractors alone last year.
Blog - /blog/2023/03/15/one-highest-military-budgets-history/
- ...War. Looking further back, the Biden request is higher than the height of the Vietnam or Korean wars, too.
Blog - /blog/2023/03/09/quarter-bidens-budget-will-go-pentagon-contractors/
- While more than half of the federal discretionary budget under the president’s proposal would go to the military, fully two-thirds would go to a combination of the military, veterans’ prog...
Blog - /blog/2022/05/09/its-almost-if-military-spending-isnt-key-peace/
- ...ward Ukraine. The U.S. alone spent 12 times as much as Russia.
Blog - /blog/2022/03/03/bidens-state-union-address-showcased-disconnect-spending-priorities/
- President Biden called for major new investments in people, communities, and infrastructure in his State of the Union address. But his calls fly in the face of the real spending patterns in this count...
Blog - /blog/2021/09/22/cut-pentagon-budget-ten-percent-fy-2022/
- This week the House of Representatives is voting on the National Defense Authorization Act, the piece of legislation that sets the nation's military policy, and military budget. And, based on&nbs...
Blog - /blog/2021/09/09/911-20-two-decades-missed-opportunities/
- For just a fraction of what we’ve spent on militarization these last 20 years, we could start to make life much better.
Blog - /blog/2021/08/16/we-should-rededicate-afghan-war-funds-refugee-resettlement/
- ...Afghanistan operations. That level of investment could pay up-front refugee relocation costs of $15,148 for 1.2 million people.
Blog - /blog/2021/04/07/if-impoverished-countries-can-host-millions-refugees-us-can-welcome-few-thousand/
- The factors that drive displacement are often complex, but welcoming refugees isn't.
Blog - /blog/2021/06/11/osamas-ghost-economics-overextension/
- Twenty years of military quagmire of the Middle East has contributed to the fraying of the U.S. economy even as China has rapidly become the new center of global capital accumulation.
Blog - /blog/2021/07/02/why-bidens-foreign-policy-so-conventional/
- America is back—to the same old, same old.
Blog - /blog/2021/03/24/day-i-became-anti-war/
- ...War — and its lessons for us 18 years later.
Blog - /blog/2021/06/02/biden-unconscionable-military-budget/
- ...Afghanistan War finally ending, we shouldn’t squander our “peace dividend” on costly weapons or military bloat.
Blog - /blog/2021/06/30/americas-nearly-13-trillion-national-security-budget-isnt-making-us-any-safer/
- ...wars, nuclear weapons, overseas bases, and boondoggle weapons programs won't protect anyone.
Blog - /blog/2021/04/16/bidens-pentagon-still-trumps-pentagon/
- ...war spending from $740 billion fiscal year 2021 to $753 billion in fiscal year 2022.
Blog - /blog/2021/03/19/18-years-invasion-iraq/
- ...war are just too high. We must end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the next time our leaders inevitably argue for the necessity of war, it’s up to us to resist.
Blog - /blog/2021/02/04/after-muslim-ban/
- I’m glad Biden repealed Trump’s Muslim ban, but the work of repairing the harm is just beginning.
Blog - /blog/2021/02/01/will-space-force-take-pentagon-budget-infinity-and-beyond/
- The first days of the Biden administration brought a deeply welcome spate of reversals of Trump policies, ranging from the reversal of the racist Muslim immigration ban to the nixing of the Keystone X...
