Blog - /blog/2025/05/09/good-trouble-moral-mondays-us-capitol-defend-americans-destructive-budget/
- ...spending.
Blog - /blog/2025/03/04/watch-what-trump-does-not-what-he-says/
- Tonight President Trump will address Congress, and who knows what he’ll say. But it’s easy to get too swept up in what he says. Instead, watch what he does.
Blog - /blog/2025/02/12/if-pentagon-contracts-were-federal-agency-they-would-be-biggest-federal-agency/
- ...usk has set his team of DOGE destroyers on agencies from USAID to the Department of Education - both of which are puny compared to Pentagon contracts.
Blog - /blog/2025/01/29/wanna-make-america-healthy-cut-military-spending/
- If policymakers wanted to actually improve the health of Americans they would be making larger investments in expanding food security and healthcare programs– not the military.
Blog - /blog/2024/10/08/2024-climate-week-webinars-divest-militarism-invest-climate-justice/
- Colonial violence and militarism are at the root of global inequality, ecological devastation, and perpetual conflict that is driving the triple planetary crisis.
Blog - /blog/2024/09/05/costs-us-militarization-philippines-abuse-people-and-planet/
- The U.S. military is getting out of hand in fueling wars abroad–even the ones that haven’t begun.
Blog - /blog/2024/08/04/sonya-masseys-murder-reminder-domestic-and-foreign-violence-are-intertwined/
- Addressing police violence in our communities requires reckoning with America’s militarized foreign policy that leads to wars abroad and at home.
Blog - /blog/2023/11/21/pentagon-fails-its-sixth-audit/
- ...use: Congress. With each failure at the Pentagon, Congress is failing, too.
Blog - /blog/2023/03/15/one-highest-military-budgets-history/
- ...spending is higher than the height of military spending during the Reagan years at the height of the Cold War. Looking further back, the Biden request is higher than the height of the Vietnam or Korea...
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/2022/10/03/what-does-national-security-mean-without-climate-security/
- This country’s spending on the Pentagon and nuclear weapons is done in the name of “national security.” Not to mention the billions more for “homeland security,” largely ...
Blog - /blog/2022/07/08/dont-give-100-billion-pentagon-do-instead/
- Even $100 billion is actually a modest cut when it comes to the Pentagon. We could cut much more and end up even safer. But when that $37 billion or $100 billion can do so much good elsewhere, it's un...
Blog - /blog/2022/07/06/while-nation-reels-pentagon-budget-keeps-ramping-nuclear-weapons/
- ...spending budget set to pass as part of the FY23 National Defense Authorization Act, the amount spent on nuclear weapons alone over the next decade is much more than the deficit increase of the failed ...
Blog - /blog/2022/06/24/pentagon-increases-2022-could-almost-fund-build-back-better/
- Remember Build Back Better? Way back in December, President Biden and advocates across a wide spectrum of issues fought to fund the president's signature plan, which included major new invve...
Blog - /blog/2022/03/09/whats-fy-2022-budget-deal-military/
- The budget deal announced today continues a longstanding trend of overfunding the military and underfunding domestic and human needs, providing $782 billion for the miltiary and only $730 bi...
Blog - /blog/2022/03/16/military-aid-ukraine-balloons-real-solutions-diplomacy-human-needs/
- ...using the Russian invasion of Ukraine as an excuse for higher military spending, on top of an already record high military budget.
Blog - /blog/2022/02/07/us-competes-china-what-cost/
- ...use passed a sweeping bill to counter China economically, the America COMPETES Act, with $52 billion for fund the production of computer chips. What else could that pay for?
Blog - /blog/2022/01/31/will-us-stoke-war-ukraine-while-world-burns/
- ...usual, there are no military solutions, and a heap of other dire problems are being relegated to lower priority status in the meantime. It’s time for the U.S. to evolve - to look for diplomatic ...
Blog - /blog/2022/01/17/martin-luther-king-jrs-internationalist-vision-more-crucial-ever/
- ...defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” If we take King’s words seriously...
Blog - /blog/2021/11/11/upend-damaging-narrative-about-spending/
- Polls say Americans should love the Build Back Better Act — but most are only hearing talking points about its price tag.
